Harlem’s Akhnaten Spencer-El Coaches Columbia Students And The First Muslim Woman in A Hijab Repping USA At The Olympics

August 7, 2016

harlem in rioHarlem’s Columbia  Olympic Foilist Nzingha Prescod (CC’15) and Columbia Sabre Coach and Harlem born Akhnaten Spencer-El will represent the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team.


Coach Spencer-El is joining one of his first students, Ibtihaj “Ibti” Muhammad, the first Muslim woman in a hijab to represent the U.S. in Fencing.

Via Columbia 


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