Brandeis alum, current USC guard Rian Forestier surprises girls’ basketball players with new kicks [Video]

SAN ANTONIO – Amid her busy schedule with the USC women’s basketball team, former four-year Brandeis starter Rian Forestier made a quick trip home to the Alamo City for the holiday and surprised Davis Middle School girls’ basketball players with a new pair of kicks.

Forestier started a non-profit about two years ago called ‘4WARD’, inspired by her former AAU teammate who almost quit playing basketball because she didn’t have a good pair of basketball shoes.

“The kids were making fun of her, and she went home and said, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore; I want to quit,’” recalled Forestier. “It just blew my mind — not only because she’s one of my college teammates now and could’ve gone to whatever school she wanted to in the nation — but also because that should never be a reason a kid stops playing a sport that they could possibly love.”

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