{"id":6947,"date":"2016-04-14T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2019-02-01T00:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T00:21:45","slug":"youth-basketball-program-founded-by-jennifer-weber-11-gets-specially-designed-uniforms-reports-minnesota-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/14\/youth-basketball-program-founded-by-jennifer-weber-11-gets-specially-designed-uniforms-reports-minnesota-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball program founded by Jennifer Weber &#8217;11 gets specially designed uniforms, MN Daily reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/MN-Daily-logo2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6857 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/MN-Daily-logo2-150x150.png\" alt=\"MN Daily - logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/MN-Daily-logo2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/MN-Daily-logo2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/MN-Daily-logo2.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Minnesota Daily recently covered the Cedar Riverside Community Traveling Basketball program, which provides coaching, practice, and competition for six teams of local boys and girls ranging from sixth to 10th grade. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text\">The program was founded by Augsburg College alumna <strong>Jennifer Weber &#8217;11<\/strong>, who recognized a need for such programs. &#8220;The kids here in the neighborhood need more quality programming,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The kids want it. They go to open gym all the time.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Another need Weber recognized dealt with a\u00a0lack of functional athletic attire that was culturally acceptable for the many Muslim girls in the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text\">Luckily, design students from the University of Minnesota had already been working to solve that problem. Working with the players and other partners, the students designed uniforms with adjustable hijabs, knee-length skirts and breathable leggings. A grant from the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station provided funding to donate the completed uniforms to the program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text\">The article concludes with a statement from coach and co-founder <strong>Muna Mohamed &#8217;16<\/strong>, an exercise science senior at Augsburg who grew up in the neighborhood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text\">&#8220;These girls are getting an opportunity to have culturally appropriate clothing, at the same time &#8230; [as] enjoying sports,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They don\u2019t have to worry about fixing their scarves. They don\u2019t have to worry about &#8216;How can I play basketball and also respect my culture?'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Daily recently covered the Cedar Riverside Community Traveling Basketball program, which provides coaching, practice, and competition for six teams of local boys and girls ranging from sixth to 10th grade. The program was founded by Augsburg College alumna Jennifer Weber &#8217;11, who recognized a need for such programs. &#8220;The kids here in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[330,532,902,1418,3659,3825,3599,3064],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","tag-basketball","tag-cedar-riverside","tag-education","tag-islam","tag-jennifer-weber","tag-minnesota-daily","tag-muna-mohamed","tag-vocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8927,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/8927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}