On Friday, August 3rd, Ibtihaj Muhammad threw the first pitch, perfectly, in front of the more than 35,000 people gathered for the Red Sox/Yankees game at Fenway Park and gave meaning to the words “if you can see it, you can be it.” The crowd at Fenway roared their approval as Ibtihaj Muhammad, with her name emblazoned across the back of her custom Red Sox jersey, threw the ball across home plate. The first black, Muslim American woman to compete in the Olympics for the United States wearing hijab, Ibtihaj Muhammad achieved her dream of winning an Olympic medal in fencing in Rio in 2016 and sparked more dreams on August 3rd.
