Super Bowl Grant Brings First U.S. Courts for Southeast Asian Sport to Minnesota - NBC News

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"With changing demographics in Minnesota, it is most fitting that the City of St. Paul's Park and Recreation Department change its field usage to accommodate the changing needs of the community," Lee Pao Xiong, director of the Center for Hmong Studies at St. Paul's Concordia University and chair of Sepak Takraw of USA, told NBC News. "Since St. Paul has the largest urbanized Hmong population in the United States, and a large and growing Karen population, it is most fitting that we start this movement here in this city."

Super Bowl Grant Brings First U.S. Courts for Southeast Asian Sport to Minnesota - NBC News