December 27, 2024
It was the fourth yr that the college hosted Elevating The B.A.R.
This previous weekend, the College of California (Cal) hosted its fourth annual Elevating The B.A.R. (basketball, activism, illustration) Invitational, which options colleges with Black feminine basketball head coaches.
Based on The Day by day Californian, the event’s host workforce swept the sector to emerge victorious on Dec. 22. The No. 24-ranked Cal beat Temple College by scoring 89-63 to enhance its profitable report to 13 wins in opposition to one defeat on the season. Fordham College and Xavier College have been the opposite two groups taking part within the event.
Christmas got here early🎄! Cal takes dwelling the Elevating The B.A.R. Championship!#LevelUp | #GoBears pic.twitter.com/mkEnxelaGu
— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 23, 2024
Cal head coach Charmin Smith created the event to lift consciousness of the dearth of voices being heard in girls’s basketball faculty teaching. Every season, she selects 4 groups (together with her personal) led by Black feminine head coaches.
In a telephone interview with The Related Press, Smith expressed the dearth of Black feminine head coaches and the aim of guaranteeing folks know they exist.
“In our sport, it’s an enormous problem with solely 17% of head coaches are girls of shade,” Smith informed the media outlet. “This event elevates the voices and tales and folks within the Variety, Fairness, Inclusion, and Belonging area in addition to highlights the dearth of variety in girls’s faculty basketball teaching.”
The college introduced that it had added a fundraising element for the event to assist every college. Cal is elevating funds for Folks’s Applications, Fordham for A part of the Answer, Temple for the Philadelphia Youth Sports activities Collaborative, and Xavier for Cincinnati Stepping Stones.
Asserting a brand new addition to our Elevating The B.A.R. Invitational: Fundraising For Change – benefitting a neighborhood charity shut to every college!
You may donate a flat quantity or a financial quantity per level scored in the course of the event!
Take a look at extra right here: https://t.co/cKVKrfQFvH pic.twitter.com/uNPanz9gYx
— Cal Basketball (@CalWBBall) December 18, 2024
Fordham’s head coach Bridgette Mitchell spoke about being invited to take part within the event.
“That is actually cool,” she stated in a telephone interview. “Illustration issues. Women look as much as my gamers and my gamers look as much as me. That is actually distinctive to see and it needs to be celebrated what Charmin is doing.”
Cal is now off to its finest begin of the season since 2016-17, when it opened with the identical report the college has now at 13-1.