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Nike will name a new development center on its Oregon campus after Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer.
Stringer, who won her 800th game earlier this year, is the third woman – and the first African-American woman – to have a building named after her on Nike’s campus. The C. Vivian Stringer Child Development Center will house 26 classrooms for 300 children beginning in June.
“Words cannot truly express how deeply touched and honored I am. When Phil Knight called to tell me of this tribute, I was literally speechless,” Stringer said. “I am so very humbled. It is extremely personal because of the work that will be done in the building for young people.”
Nike has named other buildings after Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and former student-athletes Joan Benoit Samuelson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm and Jerry Rice.
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