SPORTS
Yankees Award New Round of Stonewall Scholarships
Club distributes $10k to college-bound seniors representing every borough
BY MATT TRACY
The coronavirus pandemic
has sidelined the
Yankees for the time being,
but the organization
movws ahead with its second
annual edition of a scholarship
program benefi tting queer high
school seniors.
The organization is distributing
a total of $50,000 in scholarships
among fi ve different college-bound
seniors, at $10,000 apiece, with
one student coming from each borough.
The Stonewall Scholars initiative
is led by the city Department
of Education in conjunction with
the Yankees, Stonewall Inn, the
Mayor’s Offi ce, Major League Baseball,
and Athlete Ally, a group that
wrks to encourage acceptance and
participation of LGBTQ athletes at
all levels of sports.
The coronavirus pandemic prevented the Yankees from holding a pre-game ceremony at Yankee Stadium
this year, but Stonewall Scholars were honored on Zoom.
The program launched last year
in a move that appeared as somewhat
of a concession by the organization
following pressure from
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the community to schedule a Pride
night game, which had by then become
a standard annual event for
most teams. The team agreed to
hold a pre-game ceremony honoring
the students as well as a separate
ceremony at the Stonewall
Inn.
This year’s recipients are Tamia
“Tee” Barnard of the Bronx, who
attends the High School for Law,
Advocacy, and Community Justice
in Manhattan; Lauren Hidalgo
of Queens, who attends Francis
Lewis High School in Queens;
Cole Neufeld of Manhattan, who
attends Bard High School Early
College Manhattan; and two more
students — one from Brooklyn and
one from Staten Island — whose
names were not made public.
Because the coronavirus crisis
is preventing the team from recognizing
the scholars in a pre-game
ceremony, they were instead congratulated
in a June 1 Zoom chat
featuring Yankees general manag-
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