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Princeton University Athletics
McGarvie '09 Starts Girls' Lacrosse Team in Innercity D.C.
April 13, 2011 | Women's Lacrosse
Lacrosse Finds a New Home at Ballou and Two Other DC Public High Schools
by Alan Goldenbach, Washington Post
Monday, April 11, 2011
No, the coach told a few players who asked, you cannot swing the lacrosse sticks at opposing players. Yes, to those curious but still skeptical, this is a sport unlike any you've ever seen or played, especially since nearly half of her roster had never previously participated in an organized team sport.
But her most glaring point was unavoidable for all of her players at the Southeast school, whose enrollment, according to D.C. Public Schools, is 100 percent African American.
“You're going to play games where you see people who don't look like you,” McGarvie said she told her players.