You are reading

Local Student Wins Visit From Basketball Stars For PS/IS 78

Wayne Ellington via NBA.com

Wayne Ellington via NBA.com

June 17, 2016 Staff Report

Basketball stars will be visiting a Long Island City school next week thanks to one local students’ dance moves.

The Brooklyn Nets’ Wayne Ellington and New York Liberty’s Epiphanny Prince will visit P.S./I.S. 78 after a second grader won the Aquafina Happy Body Dance School Contest.

The contest, which ran from March 21 to April 4, asked kids across the U.S. to submit a video of their best “happy body” dance moves, for a chance to win a NBA/WNBA FIT Clinic – part of a health and wellness program that aims to inspire fans to be active, eat healthy and play together – featuring a visit from professional players at their school.

Fans selected two winning videos. The local winning student was not named in the event announcement.

Prince and Ellington will visit P.S./I.S. 78 on Tuesday.

Ellington, an eight-year NBA veteran, just finished up his first year with the Nets.

Prince has been in the WNBA since 2010 and with the Liberty since 2015.

email the author: news@queenspost.com

Featured Events

Post an Event

View All Events…

No comments yet

Leave a Comment
Reply to this Comment

All comments are subject to moderation before being posted.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Recent News
NY Hall of Science debuts CityWorks, its largest exhibition in over a decade

The New York Hall of Science in Corona opened its largest interactive exhibition in more than a decade on Saturday, May 3. The exhibition explores the often invisible inner workings of the built urban environment.

CityWorks is housed in a 6,000 square foot gallery, and the exhibit was created by a team of NYCSI exhibit developers, researchers, and educators over the past five years. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the intricate systems and engineering that enable cities to function, including how they break, evolve, and endure.

Read More
0
Twenty people indicted in Queens-based $4.6M vehicle theft ring after three-year probe: DA

Twenty individuals were indicted and variously charged in a wide-ranging scheme to steal cars in Queens, throughout New York City and its suburbs, following a three-year investigation by the Queens District Attorney’s Office, the NYPD, and the New York State Police dubbed “Operation Hellcat,” into the criminal enterprise based in Queens.

Some of the vehicles were stolen from owners’ driveways, some with the keys or key fobs inside. The stolen vehicles were often sold through advertisements on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. The defendants are charged in nine separate indictments for a total of 373 counts, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on Thursday.

Read More
0
Load More Articles