Growing up amid drugs, gangs and violence your options can be limited, Third base Altanee Manor choose school and softball.

In order to stay out of trouble Manor focused on school and taking care of her little brothers “I just played my sports and I danced you gangbang, play sports or dance. And I played softball and basketball.”

During her early years, Manor learned to cope with the life in East LA “it was all about respect I gave respect and I got respect”

To keep out of trouble manor focused on school and sport “I played softball and basketball it kept me out of the house and it help me let my anger out. When I'm hitting the softball it's like a therapy without having somebody talking to you”

Even tough her dad was not a central figure on manor's life, having a strict mother gave Manor the push she needed to excel in school and sports “To my mom getting a C was getting a fail so I had to keep an A B average.”

“My dad went to jail when I was 15 but he never was a part of my life, basically he's just the person that gave me life.”

On her high school years, Manor played
with Crenshaw high and was all-city player during her senior year.

Coming from east LA manor believes she has a great responsibility to show people what she's made of “most people think that kids from LA are nothing but trouble when one of us gets picked up we have the responsibility to prove them wrong were not just kids that mess up we want to make a difference on our lives and get that image that you have of us out of your head.”

Manor values her education and the opportunity that EPCC gave her “for me this is the school that gave an opportunity and I'll always be grateful for that.”

“She's had a hard life and she's turning it around” “when we got manor she grown up so much because she values her education more now, before it was only softball! Softball! Now she is committed to school” Said Head Coach Amanda Gamboa.

Manor studies criminal justice and hopes to become a probation or corrections officer “I want to have a job that not only do I love but I can help somebody change, when you're a probation officer you work with a little boy and when you have that bond and that trust you can always make difference.”