Sports Illustrated "Underdogs"

Friendship Collegiate Academy’s football is featured in Sports Illustrated’s newest online series “Underdogs” that tells the stories of inspiring high school football teams around the country. The segment shows the team’s struggles to succeed without a playing field, locker room and barely enough equipment. The piece highlights students who are going to Division I schools in the against all odds and highlights Coach Aazaar Abdul-Rahim who brought the football program to Friendship Collegiate.  The truly inspirational segment features displays how the team finished last year with a 9 – 1 records with an astonishing nineteen players who received football scholarships.

Sports Illustrated makes clear that although the Knights are true underdogs, they plan to keep winning on the field and in the classroom. To viewFriendship Collegiate Academy’s Knights on Sports Illustrated’s “Underdogs” click here: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/specials/underdogs/episode-1.html


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