Choking “Back More Tears”, Stephen Curry’s Mom Sonya’s 1995 Breakthrough Was Predicted By 18YO “Gentle Soul”

Following in his ex-NBA star father’s footsteps, Stephen Curry started to hoop, and the rest is history. Steph, however, owes quite a lot of his athleticism to his mother as well. The Golden State Warriors star’s mother, Sonya Curry, was an ace volleyball player during her day. Just like fellow sports icons, Sonya, too, is a person of many talents. One among them was her stint as the President of the Christian Montessori School of Lake Norman. But how did the ex-volleyball star venture into the role of an educational visionary?

Sonya Curry’s memoir Fierce Love is filled with intriguing and awe-inspiring anecdotes. One such anecdote from Fierce Love revolves around Sonya and an 18-year-old. Perhaps, it was Sonya’s interactions with the teenager that later prompted her to change direction.

Stephen Curry’s mother Sonya’s heart-touching interaction with a teenager

The second chapter of?Fierce Love?explores the warm equation Sonya Curry had with an 18-year-old neighbor named Philip. Philip, according to many others in the neighborhood, had some mental issues. As Sonya puts it, they called him “slow.”?Stephen Curry’s mother, however, begged to differ.?“I see him as kind of quiet, friendly, and a gentle soul,”?Sonya wrote about Philip in her memoir. Besides, Philip shared the same warm equation with Sonya.

Philip, however, as told by Sonya Curry, was uncomfortable around others as they would regard him as illiterate. Then also, Sonya would sit with the youngster and teach him to read. While doing so, she also made sure that she was being strict in her lessons. No matter the time it took, she made sure Philip read a whole book to her. “He chokes back more tears, and then I say, “Come on man, you got a whole book to read to me. Let’s do this,”?Sonya wrote.

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With utmost patience and dedication, Sonya would watch a young Philip slowly grasp each word. For those lessons, she gave him grades as well. No wonder Sonya would later establish a school in 1995.

Sonya Curry’s 1995 breakthrough

In 1995, Sonya Curry and her ex-husband and former NBA star Dell Curry founded the Christian Montessori School of Lake Norman, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their children, Stephen, Seth, and Sydell, would attend the said institution in the years that followed.

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Sonya Curry owns and operates the Montessori School right now. Besides, she also serves as the President of the institution. While putting in the effort to guide the neighborhood ‘illiterate,’ Sonya must not have thought that she will help numerous children learn and thrive.