LaQuintha Carroll is one of many Hoop Dreams graduates who have returned to the program to work as a mentor.

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She says high school students respect her because they know she was able to attend college because of Hoop Dreams.

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Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

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In 1995, the universally praised Hoop Dreams failed to land a nomination prompting critics and journalists across the country to denounce the category s cryptic voting methods.

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