Editing Curtis Pride (section)

==Youth==
[[Deaf]] at birth from [[rubella]], Pride developed oral skills early in his life and graduated from [[John F. Kennedy High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)|John F. Kennedy High School]] in [[Silver Spring, Maryland]]. He excelled in baseball, basketball, and [[soccer]] in high school. After high school, Curtis Pride attended the [[College of William and Mary]]. He was the starting [[point guard]] on the basketball team. He also was an excellent soccer player who played for the United States at the [[1985 FIFA U-16 World Championship]] in China and scored two goals in the tournament, including the match winner against [[Bolivia]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023150236/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=194427/index.html FIFA player profile]</ref>  He was named one of the top 15 youth prospects in the world for that year and was a 1986 Parade Magazine High School All American soccer player.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1697&dat=19860214&id=xjAqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WUcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4911,3126504 1986 Parade Magazine High School All American Soccer Team]</ref>  Pride uses his 5% residual hearing to help him speak and is a fluent lip-reader.