Top 100 nationally ranked basketball player Timani Harris returned home Saturday to host a free basketball clinic and toy drive for local youth. The Richmond native, 17, who plays for DME Academy in Daytona Beach, Florida, led the event at Trinity Family Life Center on Dill Road in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond. 

The clinic offered kids ages 5 to 17 a chance to sharpen their basketball skills and techniques while celebrating the holiday season. The event also included a toy drive, with local sponsors, vendors and volunteers contributing toys to be distributed to Boys & Girls Clubs youth in the days following the clinic. 

“I just wanted to give back to the community,” said Harris, who traveled from Florida to host the event in the neighborhood where she grew up. 

Harris ran the clinic with her father, Manny Harris. Participants wore shirts bearing the letters PGH, which stands for Pretty Girl Hoops, an organization Harris founded in 2020. 

“I just wanted to represent pretty girls that can hoop,” she said. 

PGH supports girls with an interest in basketball while also encouraging boys to play.