Cydney Cooper has been playing softball since she was 5 years old. Playing the sport in South Carolina came with being the only Black girl on the team, or one of a few Black players.
As a shy, dark-skinned girl, Cooper said people often thought she had an attitude, but she was just quiet and shy. When it came time for her to choose where she wanted to further her academic career, it was a no-brainer that she wanted to attend a historically Black college or university.
“Me coming here was meant to be,” the senior psychology major at South Carolina’s Claflin University said.