MVHS Soccer Players Visit D.C. School
Three MVHS soccer players visited Luke C. More Academy Senior High School to speak to students.
Three members of the Mount Vernon High School boys soccer team visited Luke C. Moore Academy Senior High School on May 18 to help celebrate its 2nd annual International Day festival. Seniors Amardo Oakley (captain), Damaro DaCosta, and junior Foday Sillah spoke to students about their upbringings in Jamaica and Sierra Leone and how soccer helped change their lives for the better. Coach Robert Garza told the players about the school’s International Day; Garza is a history teacher and history department chair at Luke C. Moore. “I asked them if they would like to participate and they were eager to get involved,” Garza said in an email to Patch. “With a lot of the students at LCMA never having left DC and the few we do have that do come from …
