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Do More Than Show Up

Love Ishie reflects on perseverance, professional growth, community service, and the responsibility to create meaningful youth-sports experiences.

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of NAYS

Love Ishie knows all about challenges and, more importantly, overcoming them.

Thanks to a basketball scholarship he earned to play at The Citadel, he left his family in Lagos, Nigeria, when he was 19 and moved more than 5,000 miles away to Charleston, S.C.

Four years later, he was armed with a degree in physical education and a clear vision that he wanted to help make a difference in kids’ lives through the power of sports.