By Martin Rogers, USA TODAY Sports
USA TODAY Sports’ Martin Rogers goes inside Seven Generation Games, a company started by Ronda Rousey’s mother, AnnMaria De Mars, that creates educational video games for under-served children. USA TODAY Sports
LOS ANGELES — Ronda Rousey’s mom is best known these days as … Ronda Rousey’s mom, an inevitable result of being associated with the woman who is mixed martial arts’ most high-profile fighter, a budding actress and a media sensation.
But there is much more to Dr. AnnMaria De Marsthan being a figure of support behind her fist-flashing, choke-holding, elbow-popping daughter, champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s women’s bantamweight division.
The 57-year-old is a whirlwind of bluntness and intelligence, a former world judo champion, the holder of an MBA and a PhD in Educational Psychology, and the founder of Seven Generation Games, a company seeking to improve the math skills of under-served schoolchildren, especially those in Native American communities.
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