YPSILANTI – As James Kelly went to break up a fight inside a hallway at Ypsilanti Community High School, he noticed something he had never seen before.
He saw a fearless freshman by the name of Ayouba Bathily going toe-to-toe with kids much bigger than him, but the passion he displayed made Kelly wonder what he could be if he put that effort into something positive.
“He just had so much fire,” Kelly said about Bathily. “I was just blown away. He didn’t care what they looked like. He didn’t care about the size of them. He didn’t care who they were or how old they were. He was just trying to get after them. So just having that fire alone in you, to me, that’s like, I gotta get him on a team. I gotta at least try.”…