The teenager from Houston wanted to attend a historically Black college or university.
, an organization that'd been trying to drum up support for an HBCU for years — with Fisk's trustees. One trustee listened to Moore's pitch and offered to make a $100,000 donation on the spot if Fisk adopted the sport.
The face of high-level women's gymnastics is changing. While athletes of color have excelled at the sport's highest level for decades, in particular has spiked over the last 10 years thanks in part to the popularity of Olympic champions Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles. Still, it caught Umme Salim-Beasley off guard when she began exploring her college options in the early 1990s. Salim-Beasley grew up in the Washington, D.C., area and competed in the same gym as four-time Olympic medalist Dominique Dawes. Salim-Beasley wanted to go to an HBCU. When she approached an HBCU recruiter at a college fair and told the recruiter she was a gymnast, the response she received shocked her.
The Bulldogs don't have an on-campus facility and are currently training at a club gym a few miles from campus, though they are fundraising in hopes of remedying that soon. They are competing this year as an independent while waiting to get their NCAA status sorted out.
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