Represent the president s council on sports, fitness and nutrition has submitted written testimony which will appear in the record alongside other testimony from the session. As a reminder all witnesses are asked to keep to five minutes for the prepared testimony. And as you can see if the timers on the wall in front of you we are doing our best to keep to that. I will now yield each of you five minutes. Good afternoon distinguished members of the commission. Project manager with the Sport Society program of the aspen institute. Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony in the future sports in america particularly the state. Admittedly bring a diverse perspective to the states hearing when i started coaching at 18 although i found a service to many families particularly underserved communities coaching quickly became a calling than a career but not in the way i thought. Rather than learning an inning living as a coach i became a Coaching Researcher first at uc barkley than int
Represent the president s council on sports, fitness and nutrition has submitted written testimony which will appear in the record alongside other testimony from the session. As a reminder all witnesses are asked to keep to five minutes for the prepared testimony. And as you can see if the timers on the wall in front of you we are doing our best to keep to that. I will now yield each of you five minutes. Good afternoon distinguished members of the commission. Project manager with the Sport Society program of the aspen institute. Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony in the future sports in america particularly the state. Admittedly bring a diverse perspective to the states hearing when i started coaching at 18 although i found a service to many families particularly underserved communities coaching quickly became a calling than a career but not in the way i thought. Rather than learning an inning living as a coach i became a Coaching Researcher first at uc barkley than int
Represent the president s council on sports, fitness and nutrition has submitted written testimony which will appear in the record alongside other testimony from the session. As a reminder all witnesses are asked to keep to five minutes for the prepared testimony. And as you can see if the timers on the wall in front of you we are doing our best to keep to that. I will now yield each of you five minutes. Good afternoon distinguished members of the commission. Project manager with the Sport Society program of the aspen institute. Thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony in the future sports in america particularly the state. Admittedly bring a diverse perspective to the states hearing when i started coaching at 18 although i found a service to many families particularly underserved communities coaching quickly became a calling than a career but not in the way i thought. Rather than learning an inning living as a coach i became a Coaching Researcher first at uc barkley than int
That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b