CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sophomores Gabby Donaldson and Naomi-Grace Jennings of the Harvard women's basketball team have been chosen for the Make A Play Foundation's Training Camp and Development League.
 
The duo will participate in MAP's 10-month professional development program for high-achieving student-athletes from underrepresented communities. The development league program is designed to help student-athletes enhance and sharpen their quantitative and qualitative skills for executive roles in sports, entertainment and beyond. In the training camp, the pair will complete MAP's six-week accelerated professional development course that delivers career training and provides resources and expertise on various career paths.
 
Selected as two out of 49 total students out of over 120 applicants, Donaldson and Jennings will represent the only two Harvard women of five total Crimson students who were accepted to the program.
 
Make A Play Foundation (MAP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2019 to prepare underrepresented students with athletic backgrounds—high school, college, and post-undergraduate school—for executive careers in competitive industries, including Fortune 500 companies. MAP's highly integrated programs have been designed to impact the personal and professional development of our students. Their programs provide students with the tools to meet the expectations of competitive industries and highly selective industries and develop as future leaders on and off of the field.