Diamond Street, Lehigh Ave, Cecil B. Moore Ave, Ridge Ave. are some of the streets in North Philadelphia. If you are from there like : Dawn Staley, Kyle Lowry and Kahleah Copper you probably know those streets pretty well.
Staley is the senior of the 3 North Philadelphia natives, followed by Lowry and Copper.
University of Virginia, Villanova University and Rutgers University are the college institutions eached played Division 1 basketball for respectively.
After Sunday Olympic gold medal final a one point win by the USA Women, Copper won a gold medal.
Which carries on the North Philadelphia tradition.
Lowry won a gold medal for the USA Men in 2016 while in Brazil.
Staley as a head coach in 2021 while in Tokyo guided the USA women to gold. Then in Atlanta, 1996 summer games and 2000 summer games in Sydney contributed as a player to a pair of gold medals.
Locally the city couldn’t be more proud of those three individuals.
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