Know Your Local Black History Tour to Visit Denby

Published on February 10, 2006 under Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Detroit Shock News Release


WHO: Detroit Pistons legend and Detroit Shock Assistant Coach Rick Mahorn, WNBA Detroit Shock star Swin Cash, former Pistons player John Long along with Quicken Loans and Rock Financial President Patrick McInnis.

WHAT: The fourth stop on the Detroit Pistons and Rock Financial Know Your Local Black History Tour.

WHEN: 10 a.m., Monday, February 13

WHERE: Denby High High School 12800 Kelly Road, Detroit 48224 313-866-2032

NOTES: At each school's Know Your Local Black History Tour assembly, five pre-selected students will compete in a three-minute oral competition. The guest panel at each stop will judge the competition, selecting one winner from each school. Each winner will receive a $1,000 scholarship for higher education. The four runners-up will receive four tickets to a Pistons game and a $100 gift card courtesy of Rock Financial and the Pistons-Palace Foundation. High school students from around the State of Michigan will also have an opportunity to compete for one $1,000 scholarship in conjunction with this tour. Students can apply on-line at www.pistons.com or www.rockfinancial.com starting February 1. Pistons media partner TV20 Detroit will also help promote the statewide online competition via television spots and their website. On Sunday, February 26, all scholarship winners will be honored by Mahorn, David Hall, Rock Financial VP and Patrick McInnis, President Rock Financial and Quicken Loans, on-court at halftime of the Pistons game against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Dates Locations: Start Personalities February 2 Underground Railroad Living Museum (students from Cass Tech in Detroit) 11 a.m. Rick Mahorn, David Hall, Lem Barney, Wendy Kemp-Watkins, Rock reps.

February 6 Clintondale High School (Mt. Clemens) 10 a.m. Mahorn, Dennis Archer, Khalida Jarbou February 9 Pontiac Central High School (Pontiac) 10 a.m. Mahorn, Swin Cash, Kemp-Watkins February 13 Denby High School (Detroit) 10 a.m. Mahorn, Cash, Long, McInnis February 16 Northwestern Prep Academy (Flint) 10 a.m. Mahorn, Long, McInnis February 26 On-court Presentation during Pistons game vs. Cleveland 12 p.m. Mahorn, Hall, McInnis, Six Scholarship Winners

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