Alysha Clark Sports envoy in Tanzania

 

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA -- Alysha Clark, a professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is in Tanzania as U.S. Department of State Sports Envoy.

 

The Sports Envoy is helping to bolster the United States’ cultural and social ties with the youth of Tanzania, including the Maasai people living at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro.

 

Additionally, Alysha will host basketball clinics and speak with female youth players from schools in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, including clinics at the Ocean Road Basketball Court on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday Morning, November 15 and 16. The Sports Envoy will hold all-girls basketball clinics to highlight the importance of providing equal opportunities for all.

 

Since 2003, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has sent more than 330 U.S. athletes to more than 85 countries on Sports Envoy programs, which help reach overseas audiences that other forms of diplomatic engagement do not to promote collaboration on priority U.S. policy goals.