SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Vanderbilt’s discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley lamented on social media that she wanted assist paying the hire.
Hip-hop artist Taste Flav and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian determined to assist.
Quickly after Fraley posted on the social media platform, X, that she was in want of monetary help, Flav, founding member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy and a giant fan of USA Water Polo, responded: “I gotchu.”
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Proper on prime that, Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and husband of tennis star Serena Williams, wrote: “Acquired you!” He adopted by way of, too, by posting an image of paying $7,760.00 and writing, “’Murica.”
In her put up, Fraley alluded to the truth that her faculty pays about 75% of her hire whereas “they pay soccer gamers (who haven’t received something) sufficient to purchase new vehicles and homes.” She added three “thumbs-down” emojis. The Commodores soccer workforce went 2-10 final season, whereas Fraley received the NCAA discus title this season, set the college file and earned a spot on Crew USA at U.S. Olympic monitor trials.
She additionally began a GoFundMe web page that has raised $12,041 of her $20,000 purpose. She appreciated the gesture of Flav and Ohanian and wrote: “THANKYOU & @FlavorFlav SO MUCH. This makes each distinction within the WORLD & I hope to characterize workforce USA nicely this week.”
Flav mentioned he will probably be rooting for her and added “LETZ GO,!!!” The rapper is in Paris as a part of his duties because the official hype man for USA Water Polo — a partnership that got here collectively after he related with U.S. captain Maggie Steffens on Instagram in Might.
Fraley made positive to level out in a later put up that her criticism wasn’t with Vanderbilt.
“Thanks for the supporting messages however I wish to make clear my irritation isn’t with the college itself, primarily the foundations that bar me from making the quantity I’m WORTH as a collegiate athlete comparable to NIL which favors recognition over efficiency,” she wrote. “That’s all I’m sayin.”
