Morehouse Students Win Top Honors At 2022 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge
Morehouse beat 60 other HBCU teams to win the National Championship and an institutional grant of $75,000.
Morehouse’s four-member team comprises Stephen Agyepong, Isaiah Thompson, Andre Brown, and Kendall Wood and is coached by Robert Myrick.
Congrats @Morehouse, our 2022 @HCASC National Champion! The 33rd season of #HCASC featured 60+ #HBCU teams who embody The Power of Dreams. We’re thrilled to continue celebrating HBCU academic excellence and fostering friends for life. https://t.co/xfsoBKZC3Z pic.twitter.com/uYZQzWKEL5
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During the competition, each team member demonstrated their skills and worked together as a team, all while being established scholars in their own right. For example, Agyepong, a senior majoring in Biology; Thompson, a senior majoring in Economics; Brown, a junior majoring in Biomedical Engineering; and Wood, majoring in Biology.
Agyepong, the team’s captain, notes that the HCASC competition is a positive space for Black students.
“HCASC has been a positive space for young Black people to immerse themselves in all of the subjects that they know, love and study,” Agyepong said. “Although my HBCU experience was greatly impacted by COVID-19, I still found a sense of community from my team and other schools in the HCASC cohort.”
Since HCASC was founded in 1989, Morehouse College has qualified for the HCASC National Championship Tournament.
Yvette Hunsicker, vice president of Corporate Social Responsibility and Inclusion & Diversity at American Honda Motor Co., congratulated the Morehouse winners.
“Congratulations to the winning scholars from Morehouse who symbolize our mission to power HBCU minds and help students achieve their dreams,” Hunsicker said. “On behalf of everyone at Honda, we appreciate the tremendous efforts from all of the students participating in this year’s competition, and we want to offer special thanks to the many volunteers and HBCU alumni who make HCASC possible.”