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No Color On The Ice
by Paul on 03/18/07 at 09:40 AM ET
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from Maine Today,
When Portland Pirates goalkeeper Gerald Coleman was going to junior high school in Evanston, Ill., his gym teacher flunked him because he wanted to play hockey instead of basketball.
“At the time, I was like 6-3, and he gave me a bad grade in gym class because I didn’t want to try out for the basketball team,” Coleman recalled. “I wanted to play hockey. He said to me: ‘Why do you want to play that white man’s game?’ “
That kind of attitude motivated Coleman, who is black, to work even harder at hockey.
“It kind of woke me up,” he said. “People said you can’t do it, and it kind of pushed me to want to play it more and more.”
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