The event, led by Drexel coaches and athletes, was held in a partnership with the West Philadelphia Promise Neighborhood organization to encourage kids to stay active.
Olympic legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee high-fives student Victoria Brown, as Tatyana Henderson, right front, and Hasan Moussa, back center, look on. Joyner-Kersee met with more than 200 students from Alain Locke School at the Vidas Athletics Complex on Monday.When legendary Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee was a freshman at UCLA, she lost her mother unexpectedly. She traveled back to her hometown of East St. Louis, Ill.
“At 18 years of age, I started thinking, ‘Where do the young people go?’ Joyner-Kersee said Monday at Drexel during the third annual Vidas Play Day. “That community center gave me so much.” Community schools coordinator Jared Beck has been working at Alain Locke for five years and strives to find alternative and special education classroom settings for students. He said this event with Drexel has been one of his favorites because it gives students “hope” and leaves them with a lasting memory.
“Representation is also something that we are really sensitive about, because these kids need to see what that looks like. ...To be a runner, to be someone in sports; this just proves to them that it is possible.”
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