In celebration's of our "Semana Afro Latina," for this week's Latin Women in Sports column we sat with former volleyball superstar and one of the greatest female athletes of all time, Cuban Mireya Luis, to talk about the ups and downs in her Hall-of-Fame career, the hurdles she and her teammates experienced in the road to immortality and what it means to her being a proud Afro-latina.
SEATTLE - The path to greatness has never been easy, and for Mireya Luis, it was no exception. Born in 1967, Luis was the youngest of nine children who grew up in the small town of Aguilar, in the province of Vertientes, Cuba. With the country living its first few years under the control of the Cuban Communist Party, her mother Catalina, decided to move with her kids to the city of Camagüey in an attempt to provide then with a better future with more opportunities. This brave act of love is what started Luis' journey.
