Kayla Smith grew up in the city of Orange as one of the only African American kids on the block. She was in the minority, to be sure, except for in the Baptist church she attended with her family."That was the one place where I knew I would be surrounded by people like me," said the UCSB track-and-field standout at Monday's Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table press luncheon.When kids at school would make fun of her skin color or "nappy hair," she had a standard and confident reply:"I … [Read more...]
