Rugby Video Monday: ABC News and Good Morning America: Marysol Castro Inspired by Hometown Rugby Players

from ABCnews.com and Good Morning America:

In 1995, newly elected South African President Nelson Mandela saw rugby as a tool to inspire unity among his countrymen, who had been alienated from each other for so many years by apartheid.
Teacher Lisa Lake used rugby to inspire poor kids from rough neighborhoods.

Ten years later in the Bronx, N.Y., high school history teacher Lisa Lake had a similar vision: use rugby as a tool to inspire her students — students who were alienated from society by poverty, gangs and violent crime — to do better.

“These kids need somewhere to be, they need somewhere to shoot for and they need help to get into college,” Lake said. An athlete herself, Lake knew the benefits of organized sports. With few resources, Lake gathered as many students as she could to start a rugby team at the Bronx high school where she taught humanities.

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