“It helped a lot of young men and it kept them off the street and actually it saved a lot of their lives,” Wanda Ford said.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Local basketball legend Wanda Ford had her number retired after her career East Tech High School, then set records at Drake University before playing sixteen years of professional basketball overseas. Now she’s back home.She works with children, currently a physical education teacher at Summit Academy Community School in Parma, and her passion is playing basketball and helping young people.
She had a couple dozen players at St. Paul’s Community Church UCC, charging them five dollars, and playing all night. She donated all the money back to the church. But the time on the court was as much about help as it was about hoop. The group stopped playing at St. Paul in early 2020 and Pastor Emily Culp Ashby says liability and the need for security after an incident with the group caused the church council to discontinue the late-night basketball after the church lifted its COVID restrictions.
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