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Kevin Young

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Age 53
Web site kevinyoungpoetry.com
Date of birth November 8,1970
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Lincoln
Nebraska
United States
NationalityAmerican
SpouseKate Tuttle
Job Teacher
Poet
Education Brown University
Harvard College
The University of Southern Mississippi
Kansas City Kansas Community College
University of Kansas
Loyola Marymount University
University of California, Los Angeles
Jordan High School
Movies/Shows Compound 147
The Best and the Loneliest Days
Awards American Book Award
PEN/Open Book
John C. Zacharis First Book Award
Quill Award for Poetry
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
National Poetry Series
Official site kevinyoungpoetry.com
Alma mater Harvard College
GenresPoetry
Literary Criticism
Home run 144
Height 203 (cm)
Nba draft2013
Weight 86 (kg)
2021present Mets de Guaynabo
Play career2013–present
Olympic medalAthletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres hurdles
Sport Track
Colleg team UCLA
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Kevin Young is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

Swansea University-class Olympic athletes

Feb 16,2020 7:17 am

A group of seven former Olympians are The Last students to take a course of study at a Welsh University, before the course moves to Belgium.

Of course - a master's degree in Sport ethics and integrity, at Swansea University goals among future sports administrators, anti-doping, illegal betting and the child will be protection.

The Class of ' 26 won two Olympic Gold medals, three silver And One bronze-and a student holds the fifth-oldest World Record in athletics history.

this man is Kevin Young , a 400m hurdler, whose time of 46. 78s on the games in Barcelona in 1992, has not yet been beaten always.

Kevin Young competing at the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials in New Orleans

"I can't believe that was 27 years ago," he said.

"It seems like yesterday, I stood on The Podium and it's crazy, my record has stood for so long.

"As athletes we are always on the search to recreate the enthusiasm of the nights, and it can be quite depressing, once you are retired, But this type of course is not the same feeling But a good feeling in the location, a little back to the Sport that gave us so Much . "

1992 gold Kevin Young won in Barcelona

He entered in his class with the silver-medal-winning swimmer Allison Wagner , Grenada runner Alleyne Frankish, taekwondo artitst Sharon Jewell, Australian luger Hannah Campbell-Pegg, middle-distance runner Nikki Hamblin from New Zealand and five-time Olympian Bosede Kaffo, Nigeria represented in the table-tennis five times.

The course is part of the EU's Erasmus Mundus scheme, and aims to introduce The Students in the "high-level Sport-management and-governance-career".

About two years, The Students in modules of five partner universities in the whole of Europe, But in Wales, a surprise for the former athlete was with Mr Young, to think the course was online.

"I Packed in a hurry, I thought, to show my medal to the people, But , not, pack, think it's a coat that," he added.

to observe But in spite of the downpours, which he enjoyed, other parts of the Welsh culture, namely, an early morning trip to the pub, Wales beating Australia by 29 to 25 in the Rugby World Cup in Japan .

Nikki Hamblin (centre) in competition at The World athletics Championships in South Korea in 2011,

But it is not the Olympians come to Wales for the course in the coming years.

Prof Mike Mcnamee , who leads the course, said: "With the specter of hard Brexit on the horizon, we had to negotiate with our partners in Belgium and takes over the coordinating role.

"It's great that I'm still the Director of the program and here in Swansea University, But Swansea has to surrender its leading role, this is a tragedy, because we thought the whole program. "



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Source of news: bbc.com

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