The State Department has given their blessing to the NSAF, the group that owns and runs the HS Indoor Championship in March and the Outdoor Championship in June ( NBNI and NBNO)
to bring their CSI , to CUBA ! NSAF will bring 28 athletes, most chosen from the NBNI at the Armory in NYC in March.....only underclassmen will be chosen with few exceptions....
This is historic as you know...the NSAF had written to the State Department many months earlier about this possibility well before the recent announcement of normalization of USA/CUBA
relations... all expenses will be borne by NSAF....any athlete who has interest ought to have a passport or should apply for one NOW. The event will likely occur in June.....this is a monumental
event...sort of like ping pong diplomacy that took place many years ago when the US sent a ping pong team to China.....well, maybe not quite but you get the idea.
The NSAF has sent a US HS all star team to San Juan each year for 10 of the last 11 years with great success as a cultural and athletic experience. The roster of elite athletes who got their first international experience at CSI ( Caribbean Scholastic Inv) reads like a who's who in our sport.....Olympians galore, NCAA Champions many...
The work of Jim Spier, Joy Kamani, Tracy Sundlun, Frederico Rosa and others were influential in making this happen. This is BIG.
PL