Kareem Rosser & Daymar Rosser & Teammates Become First Black Team to Win Polo Championship

From the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Philadelphia is home to a new national champion. The Cowtown/Work to Ride polo team, which is based in Fairmount Park, won the 42d annual USPA National Interscholastic Championship tournament Sunday in Charlottesville, Va.

"It was awesome," Cowtown/WTR coach Lezlie Hiner said of her team's 24-17 victory over Baltimore in the title game at the University of Virginia's indoor polo facility.

Cowtown/WTR became the first all-black team to win the national championship. The team, which entered the tournament as the second seed, includes brothers Kareem Rosser, 18, and Daymar Rosser, 16, of West Philadelphia, and Brandon Rease, 15, of North Philadelphia.
Hiner said Kareem Rosser, who attends Valley Forge Military Academy with his younger brother and has his sights set on attending Cornell next year, was named the "No. 1 all-star" at the competition.

Hiner started the Work To Ride program in 1994 as a way to help underprivileged children from Philadelphia. She designed it as a nonprofit that offers students riding lessons in exchange for labor around the barn.