Her mission is to help create her country's future leaders. There, she worked tirelessly to support Afghan women in sports and education. Friba spent several years in Pakistan and relocated to Canada in 2011. But just a year later, Friba was forced to leave Afghanistan again. And in 2004, she became the first woman to represent Afghanistan in the Olympics. She started training in the sport of judo. She did it once as a child when the Taliban first took over Afghanistan. Ibtihaj Muhammad: Friba Rezayee knows what it's like to leave her country. And this season on The Long Game, we're going to hear from other athletes who are using their voices to create meaningful change in this world. Sports is how I learned to advocate for myself. As an African-American, as a Muslim, from birth, you are political. This is The Long Game, a podcast about the power of sports to change the world. Ibtihaj Muhammad: From Foreign Policy and Doha Debates.
If education and sport die in a society, what will remain in the society? It will be an empty, meaningless society. " įriba Rezayee: Now, with all the athletes leaving the country, all the educated people are leaving the country, I have a concern that the legacy of education and the legacy of sport will leave with them. military aircraft as they try to take off. Newsclip: "People are literally clinging on to U.S. Newsclip: "The sudden capture of the country's capital has shocked the world and caused bedlam this morning at the Kabul airport, where thousands of Afghans are struggling to get on." 3, at Rip Griffin Park.Ibtihaj Muhammad: Since August, tens of thousands of people have fled Afghanistan.
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The series is now a three-game set as game three is slated for a 3 p.m. Red added one more in the final frame behind an RBI groundout to round out the day's score at 11-3. The Black squad followed with four consecutive hits, a single from freshman Kurt Wilson, a double from sophomore Michael Berglund, a double from Beck and a single from Willems to plate two more. An RBI groundout plated Holt for the third time, while Little scored shortly after on a passed ball. However, Black had its best scoring output of the day in the fifth inning behind a four-spot to increase its lead to 11-2. The blast brought around sophomore Brian Klein, who opened the inning with a walk. The Red team put their first runs on the board thanks to a two-run homer from junior Cameron Warren. Another error in the third made it a quick 4-0 mark, while a bases-clearing triple from Willems in the fourth made it 7-0 for the Black squad.
In the second frame, sophomore Grant Little shot a single that resulted in two more runs after an error, bringing in Holt again and Willems for the 3-0 advantage. The black squad scored in each of the first five innings of the game, building a 7-0 lead before the Red team got on the board.Ī sacrifice fly from sophomore Michael Berglund in the first inning plated freshman Gabe Holt, who led off the game with a single. When Martin first took the mound, he had a one-run lead to work with, which then morphed into a 4-0 advantage by the time his day was done. He tallied two strikeouts after facing 10 batters over the first three innings of play. Junior right-handed pitcher Davis Martin picked up the victory after going 3.0 frames of one-hit ball in Wednesday's start. Three Red Raiders on the Black team produced multi-hit days, including junior catcher Zayne Willems and senior outfielder Connor Beck, who had four and three knocks on the day, respectively. The Black team (1-1) evened the series with the Red squad (1-1) after rattling off 13 runs on 11 hits in the seven-inning matchup. LUBBOCK, Texas – The Texas Tech baseball team finished game two of the annual Red & Black series with an 11-3 victory by the Black squad on Wednesday afternoon at Rip Griffin Park.
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