the spirit of sportsmanship extends Beyond campus into the south Florida Community with bigger than Sports a program dedicated to providing guidance for post High School planning the program led by Lynn University student Ian weight hosted a 3v3 basketball tournament last weekend my co-anchor Swanson Gibson Jr was there at bigger than Sports we use the platform created through Athletics and utilize it to transform lives communities and one day the world hello everyone the Len iul team is here at University Woodlands Park for the bigger than Sports three on3 basketball tournament over a dozen teams are competing
for the grand prize of $200 we were cartside to see the action unfold the first round of games occurred simultaneously as Lyn students and a few members of The Wider Community competed facely the various teams got after it early playing with high intensity throughout the afternoon bigger than sports president and CEO Ian weight discussed the objective of this organization and tournament he also touched on the support given so we're a startup nonprofit organization that empowers student athletes in lower income communities to reach their full potential by providing them with the resources and the guidance that
they need to create and execute comprehensive plans for their life After High School do you over have an overall headon of the amount of people playing in this tournament today or the amount of teams yeah we have 12 teams with about three to four players each and then we've got about 100 Spectators coming out to the event how would you describe the level of play so far man it's competitive it's getting chippy but it's a fun good time because it's Sports I couldn't do it without my team uh everyone on my board all the way
down to the staff has helped me out and this is a great turnout we've got a snack bar up and rolling we've got some clothes shops set up other community organizations and local colleges coming out to support our mission making an appearance at the tournament with social media influencer Suman Paris I would like to show my skills show my basketball freestyle show uh I it's my first time in Florida so I would like that people discover me and discover what I can do so let's get it that's why I'm here so how did you discover
this event you mentioned you went on Instagram can you talk a little bit more about that yeah I was looking for all the basketball events happen in Florida around Miami and I find this one so I contact them in Instagram I say oh can I come to make show they say oh sure come so we right now I'm here that's dope I love it the tournament gave way to a lot of competitive matchups however it would be team Oreo walking away as the victors and it feels great uh I think we're all we all play
hard and it was a great competition from everybody so it was just great runs great runs you guys had a lot of games to play so what was integral in basically getting the wins like what aspect of your game you focus on most just kind of team defense and sharing the ball getting to the rim want make serve energy too making sure we cons serve energy because we had a lot of games to play uh most teams had subs and we didn't so we had to make sure we weren't using all of our athleticism in
the beginning games reporting for ipulse news I'm Swanson Gibson J
