U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team Includes First Black Player In 98-Year HistoryPosted in Articles, Media Archive, United States on 2018-02-11 04:00Z by Steven |
U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team Includes First Black Player In 98-Year History
The Huffington Post
2018-02-09
 Mike Blake / Reuters At 6 feet, 5 inches and 238 pounds, Jordan Greenway will be the biggest player on the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team. |
“I just think I’m another kid going to play in the Olympics.”
Boston University hockey player Jordan Greenway will make history in Pyeongchang, South Korea, becoming the first African-American ever to be selected for the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team.
Breaking that 98-year color barrier, which began in the 1920 Winter Games in Antwerp, Belgium, when men’s ice hockey was first included, is a significant achievement, but Greenway tells NBC Sports that he is just “another kid going to play in the Olympics.”
Greenway says he’s happy to be first and hopes it will inspire young minorities to give hockey a shot.
“I don’t think a lot of African-Americans play hockey at a high level,” said Greenway. “I’m just trying to get more and more of those kids to try and go out and do something different.”…
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