To the players who called her “Coach B,” Beulah Osueke was more than just a coach.
Some looked at her as a parent. Others, as an older sister. Sometimes she was their financier. Often she was their disciplinarian.
Osueke, 35, was whoever the girls basketball players at West Catholic Prep, a high school in Philadelphia, needed her to be — an experience that opened her eyes to their world of hardships.
Coaching helped her understand “the magnitude of injustice and how it manifests so early,” Osueke said, “and how it thwarts people’s — particularly Black people’s — opportunity to reach whatever dreams they had.”
Throughout her eight-year tenure, Osueke built the West Catholic
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