LSU’s Angel Reese took the college sports landscape by storm this past season and ended it with a national championship win in a history-making game on ESPN.
The NCAA title game between LSU and Iowa drew 9.9 million viewers, making it “the most-viewed women’s college basketball game and ESPN platforms’ most-viewed college basketball game (men’s or women’s) on record,” according to ESPN.
And Angel hasn’t stopped winning since then.
She’s signed numerous NIL deals, ran the media gauntlet and inspired young female athletes across the country to be proud of who they are and fearless and unapologetic in the pursuit of their goals.
Now Reese has added another achievement to her resume, this one of a very personal nature.
Earlier this week, Reese’s mother, also named Angel Reese, revealed that her daughter donated $12,000 to her high school, St. Frances Academy in Maryland, to cover one year’s tuition for a player on the girl’s basketball team.
Angel’s donation was a way of paying it forward as she received the same type of assistance during her time at St. Frances.
“This is the same fund that covered Angel’s tuition all 43 years as a student at SFA,” tweeted Angel’s mom.
The generous donation was made on the same day that the LSU star hosted a back-to-school event at her high school. And she was emotional in expressing her joy in being able to give back to others.
“I always wanted to create the “Angel Reese scholarship” at St. Frances,” posted Reese on social media. “I wanted to pay one of the girls on the team’s scholarship for the whole year every year. I wanted to help the little catholic school across the street from a jail in Baltimore that made me ME & I DID THAT.”
Reese transferred from Maryland to LSU to play for Kim Mulkey and ended up becoming a national star with the Tigers. And as she prepares for another championship run this season, her star has only gotten brighter.
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