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Hockey. Hockey? Not baseball? Not soccer? Hockey?!?
For a second, Howard Gentry allowed himself to be surprised upon learning that Tennessee State University would be the first Historically Black College and University to have a hockey program.
Then Gentry remembered: Being the first HBCU to do something unexpected is what allowed TSU to even be in this position at all.
"Now to see hockey come here? To some, it might be that thought of 'Black people don't play hockey.' But the truth is they do. That's where it started," said Gentry, a former TSU athletic director.