Thursday, March 28, 2024

Mohammed’s Sports Profile/Violet Palmer: An NBA Pioneer

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*There’s no doubt some of you out there who may not of heard of Violet Palmer, so let me begin this by providing you with some very important information about her that should make you become more acquainted with what she is all about.

First of all, she is straight out of Compton, California and was raised in a strict Baptist household in the same community that Venus and Serena Williams grew up in. And when she was growing up she always liked sports and played in just about every one that you could think of.

But it was basketball that really captured her attention, a sport that she played so well in that eventually after graduating from Compton High School, she would go on to attend school at Cal Poly Pomona where she play point guard on the 1985-86 NCAA Division II championship teams.

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She obtained her Bachelor Of Sciences Recreation and Administration degree while attending Cal Poly Pomona and after graduating she refereed at Varnos University and she says the late Dr. Arron Wade a very prominent educator out of Compton first put her into the NBA official training program. And she went on to become the first black and woman to be a referee in the NBA a career that lasted 20 years before her retirement on September 22, 2016 after officiating a total of 919 games.

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She says that she came in at the ” right place, and the right time.” She has become known as the Rosa Parks of officiating and now is the manager of NBA referee operations.

She is set to be honored on Saturday February 24, 2018 by the Better Brothers Los Angeles in association with actress/activist Sheryl Lee Ralph and her non profit organization The Diva Foundation at Taglan Cultural Complex located at 201 Vine Street in Hollywood  Calif. where she will receive the Lifetime Achievement at the Fourth Annual Truth Awards.

This is an honor that is most deserving for this remarkable individual who is straight out of Compton.

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Mohammed Mubarak can be reached at [email protected] for your comments. He is an artist as well and you can go to mubarakart.com or qmubarak06 on instagram and view his works.

 

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