Younger brother, Amari, is hooked on basketball already as a fifth grader. Catina played at Hobbs High (New Mexico). Dad, Greg, was a standout at nearby New Mexico.

'I was thinking it was God's plan.' An early statementīrown hails from a basketball-crazed family. 'One time I started crying and my mom was like, 'You're going to come back even stronger.' After that I didn't cry anymore,' Brown said. It's not often top-30 recruits miss their entire junior season - prime evaluation time for college coaches. Her parents, brother and grandma all helped keep her spirits up. It was the first time since she started hooping at 7 years old that she wasn't hooping. Four days a week almost immediately following her September surgery. The months before that had been spent in rehab. Last month, the 17-year-old made her return on a new team, Texas Elite AAU, in Phoenix. 'I didn't think it was a tear for the longest time.'įinally, Brown is back on the court, slashing through opposing offenses like she did so many times pre-injury. 'He was like, 'I don't think it was a tear.' I was like, 'OK,' ' Brown said. It didn't help when the trainer on-site gave her a thumbs up. There was pain, sure, but no screaming or crying. She came down awkwardly, hyperextending her knee. 'It was,' the 5-foot-11 point guard said, 'devastating.'Īfter one of her signature steals during a viewing period last July, Brown broke for the hoop, but her opponent bumped her. It didn't matter that Brown thought she'd spend her junior year forcing steals and leading Cibola (Albuquerque, New Mexico) to another deep postseason run rather than doing leg lifts and recovery squats. Their acquittal sparked a 6 day riot in Los Angeles.Amaya Brown was in an Atlanta hotel room last summer when her mom gave her the news she'd been dreading. Four LAPD officers had been accused of using excessive force (assault) on African-American Rodney King, who had been stopped for drunk driving. In 1992, in the year of Robert H Ryder's passing, on April 29th, riots began in Los Angeles after the 'Rodney King' verdict was issued. A bystander saw her raise her arm, grabbed it, and the shot went wild. President Ford escaped a second assassination attempt 17 days later on September 22 when Sarah Jane Moore tried to shoot him in San Francisco. In 1975, Robert was 62 years old when on September 5th, Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme tried to assassinate President Ford in Sacramento, California. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. In 1934, when he was 21 years old, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil.

There were rumors of foul play (some thought that his wife had poisoned him because of his affairs) but no evidence has ever been found. After several days of being ill, he suddenly shuddered, slumped over, and died. Suffering from cramps, indigestion, a fever and shortness of breath, his doctor thought he had food poisoning. He was staying at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco after completing a nationwide tour. Harding died in office, apparently of a heart attack. In 1923, by the time he was merely 10 years old, on August 2, President Warren G. The Catholic Church was no longer the state religion and English became the primary language of the government. viewed its role as a colonial presence as one of preparing the Philippines for independence, American colonization drastically changed the character off the culture. An estimated 200,000 to 250,000 total Filipino civilians died and although the U.S. While the official end of the war was in 1902, fighting continued for several years. In 1913, in the year that Robert H Ryder was born, the Philippine–American War ended for good in June. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Robert's lifetime.

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