Annual Fundraising Banquet Gala: Hoops on Glory Road with Nevil Shed

This special event is the CRRC Annual Fundraising Banquet Gala.  Join us for an evening of conversation as we hear from the legendary basketball player himself!   His story was memorialized in the movie "Glory Road".

Nevil Shed (born April 26, 1943) is an American former basketball player. He attended Morris High school in 1962. He was a member of the Texas Western Miners (now named University of Texas at El Paso) team that won the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament national championship. The team was coached by Don Haskins. The Miners made history for being the first team to start an all-African American lineup in the championship game. His basketball nickname was "The Shadow". Glory Road, a 2006 Disney film, chronicles the team's journey; Shed is played by Al Shearer. After playing at Texas Western, Shed was drafted by the Boston Celtics in the fourth round of the…