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Harlem Ambassadors coming
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Posted on Mar 16 2001
The Harlem Ambassadors Show Basketball Team will be making a historic Pacific Island Tour this May and June, stopping on all the Micronesian Islands and a few of the South Pacific Islands, in addition to games in Japan.
They will bring the basketball wizardry, ball handling skills, and spectacular dunks to Rota on May 10 and to Saipan at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium on May 12.
The Northern Marianas Sports Challenge is working with the islands’ sports associations to make this event a success for sports through fundraising, to enable the Sports Challenge to bring in elite athletes in the future.
Clinics will also be a part of their tour. The players are all former college graduates and collegiate All Americans or professional players, and two have Masters Degrees. Coach/Player Sandie Prophete, better known as “Lade Majic”, is coach of the team under founder Dale Moss.
Some of the other players making up the team are Reggie “Fly” Thompson, with a vertical leap of 50 inches. Rashaswan “Silk” Blake and Jeremiah Cathey, also with a leap of 50 inches. Off the court Lade Majic and her team, the Ambassadors, work clinics, promote school attendance and drug free lifestyles. She has been quoted saying “Kids may not always take what their parents say to heart, but they’ll listen to athletes who have a message, it’s our way of reaching kids.”
The Clinics have not yet been finalized but will be announced at a later date. Tickets will go on sale in April. There will be opportunities for anyone to get autographs from the players and meet them in person.
Since the teams’ beginning in Ft. Collins, Colorado, the Ambassadors have been traveling around the country helping community groups raise funds through ticket sales and promotions, and will do the same thing on Rota and Saipan.
