Hunter West's Summer In Africa With Hoops4Hope

Posted Aug 30, 2019
Traveling 8,000 miles from home, Morehead-Cain Scholar Hunter West spent two months with Hoops4Hope in Cape Town, South Africa and Harare, Zimbabwe. West is a sophomore guard from Deep Run, N.C. "I was in Cape Town working with a nonprofit, Hoops4Hope. It uses basketball to teach life skills to youth and how to be better citizens." (GoHeels.com)

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