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I'm Anthony Johnson.

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I'm the founder and executive director of Columbia Supreme.

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Um,

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it's a

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youth nonprofit organization in Columbia,

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Missouri.

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Initially we started Supreme.

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We started with boys basketball.

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And then I kind of ventured into girls basketball just because I was

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doing a lot of extra things with the kids like off the courts

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and people just said like that seems cool and we love how you're subsidizing stuff

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so

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that was back when I didn't really realize like the

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demand for girls basketball so I did a tryout,

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you know,

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and I wasn't

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sure how many people were gonna show up

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and.

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I pulled up to the gym and there's like cars like

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everywhere and I didn't do much with the marketing so I

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just put it on my personal Facebook page a couple of times

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and again I've only done boys' basketball so

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I was just kind of ignorant to like what was going on is the fact that

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there's a ton of girls that wanna play

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and there's just

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not a program like for them to play at there was only like 1

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or 2 teams I think and it's not enough for all the kids.

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So when I pull up there's cars everywhere so I have somebody standing outside

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I'm like,

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is there an event or something going on?

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because like pretty sure we had this booked or whatever

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and he's like,

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I think they're here for you.

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He's like,

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I'm here for you,

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you know my name is Jeff and I was like,

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oh,

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OK.

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So I just walk in and there's kids like

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everywhere

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and it just.

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I was just like OK

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I'm gonna need more coaches so

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but

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um

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we did boys for a couple of years and

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like just with the capacity and the need in Colombia

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it just made more sense because there's so many boys programs

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um just to focus on the girls because

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that's the biggest need in Colombia for sure.

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I would say the,

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the majority of our kids,

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I don't remember the exact number,

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I think it was 58% or something like that are considered low income

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and even.

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Above that,

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a lot of people that aren't technically low income still struggle,

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so that's the

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majority of our kids and um.

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It feels really good to be able to create these opportunities

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there's definitely a lot of kids that would not be playing if this didn't exist.

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Columbia Supreme

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was just I created it's just literally um.

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What I would've needed when I was a kid

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and me trying to

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pass that same thing on like just the financial situation

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my family was in that's just kind of what it was

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so this is just more of a

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you know me trying to make sure that everybody gets to participate,

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you know,

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because I know how it feels to wanna do something and just

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from no fault

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of a child,

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you know,

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that just not being available to them

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and just

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learning as I go but

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no it's,

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it's,

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it's been great and I'm really passionate about it,

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um,

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I wouldn't rather to be doing anything else.

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OK,

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why do we practice.

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So let's make sure we get better in this next trip.

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All right,

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bring it.

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Suprema me on.