Former Harvard Standouts Amanda Sobhy And Hope Prockop To Sing “God Bless America” At Fenway Park On Sunday    
by Rob Dinerman


photos Hope Prockop

Dateline July 1st --- Hope Nichols Prockop and Amanda Sobhy will be singing “God Bless America” in the outfield at Fenway Park in Boston during the 7th inning stretch of the game this Sunday afternoon between the Boston Red Sox and California Angels. The game will be broadcast on the New England Sports Network (NESN) and is scheduled to start at 1:35, with the singing therefore likely to occur between 3:30 and 4:00 PM. Anyone wishing to view their performance can access the TV broadcast or tune in to www.redsox.com.


   This multi-talented pair, each a three-time Howe Cup national team champion at Harvard (Classes of 1990 and 2015 respectively), have previously sung the national anthem both during squash tournaments at venues like Symphony Hall in Boston and Grand Central Station in Manhattan, and, most recently, at center ice in Boston’s TD Garden this past winter prior to the start of the hockey game between the Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes. That latter rendition occurred on March 10th, the eve of the U. S. Nationals at Harvard’s Murr Center, where Sobhy, currently ranked 8th on the women’s world pro circuit, proceeded to defend her 2015 title without dropping a single game. One week later, Prockop retained the U. S. 40-and-over and 45-and-over titles she had won in 2015, then captured both these age-group categories in the British Open competition in London early last month.


  Prockop’s appearance with Sobhy in March followed by just two weeks her February 25th national anthem performance, also at TD Garden, as part of the all-female, 16-member Boston-based  a Capella group Broadband, which sang immediately prior to the start of an NBA game between the Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks --- so this Sunday will constitute a “hat trick” of sorts for Prockop, leaving her with only the New England Patriots among Boston major sports teams remaining on a “to do” list for calendar 2016.