The University of South Carolina women’s basketball Coach Dawn Staley will be honored with a statue in downtown Columbia. Columbia Mayor Daniel Rickenmann told The State the city plans to erect a statue at the corner of Main and Gervais streets across from the S.C. State House, “so that everyone who comes through Columbia can see that, and it can be a reminder to everyone that opportunity is what you make of it, and nobody can stand in your way.”
A design for the statue is still in the works, and an unveiling could be about a year away. “It’s going to be a reminder to every young girl that, ‘I have the ability and I have an equal value, and nobody should forget about that,’” Rickenmann said. The statue is being created in partnership with the international arts funding group Statues for Equality, a group that aims to “balance gender and racial representation in public statues” around the world.
A design for the statue is still in the works, and an unveiling could be about a year away. “It’s going to be a reminder to every young girl that, ‘I have the ability and I have an equal value, and nobody should forget about that,’” Rickenmann said. The statue is being created in partnership with the international arts funding group Statues for Equality, a group that aims to “balance gender and racial representation in public statues” around the world.
