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CITYWIDE — Brooklyn resident Leila Legrand and Queens resident Adria Stacker were awarded the 2025 USTA Althea Gibson HBCU (Historically Black colleges and universities) Scholarship Monday ...
Florida A&M's Reagan Harris participates in a match at the Althea Gibson Tennis Complex. Five of FAMU’s six-woman roster remain from the Rattlers’ SWAC Championship team. FAMU has four seniors ...
The office is located at 1735 Althea Gibson Way (CASS Building, Suite 304). FSU’s Counseling & Psychological Services has post-shooting crisis support available, where walk-in sessions are from ...
Althea Gibson was my first hero. I watched her play, and you always wonder, “How good is number one because that’s what I want to be.” I thought I could never be better than Althea.
It's amazing." History-making game-changers, after all, inspire her to greatness. King considers Althea Gibson, who in 1950 became the first Black tennis player to compete in the U.S. National ...
UPDATE: The winner, whose portrait you can now see on view at the Portrait Gallery, is tennis great Althea Gibson. Competitive swimmers Eleanor Holm (standing) and Helene Madison (seated ...