Yates students receive $50k donation

By Amaka Watson

For a third consecutive year, Academy Sports + Outdoors honors seven college-bound high school seniors from Yates High School with scholarships and a donation to the school totaling $50,000.

Academy has pledged to award Yates High School $250,000 by 2025 to encourage and celebrate actions that promote equality within the Houston Independent School District. Funding comes from the Academy Sports + Outdoors Scholarship Fund, established in 2020.

“A college degree is a life-changing accomplishment for our students,” said Superintendent Millard House II. “Tis is an extremely generous fve-year commitment from Academy Sports. It is seed money that will produce generations of positive change. A college degree leads to great jobs, and a better life for our students and their children. We are extremely thankful

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for the kindness of Academy Sports.”

Carnegie Mims won a $20,000 scholarship and will be going to Howard University in the fall to study management information systems with a focus in cybersecurity. He said he looks forward to attending an HBCU just like his mother [a Howard University alum] and father [Morehouse].

“I’m from the Tird Ward. A lot of people don’t have opportunities. I’m really grateful for my parents. Tey showed me the way,” he said. “I’m grateful for the people at Yates. I think anyone can do it, they just have to listen to those around them especially those in school and people who they’ve seen to be already successful in their careers.”