Darien Johnson has overcome several hardships, like growing up in a gang-infested Rochester neighborhood and his own anger, to become a record-breaking member of the UB men's track and field team.
Every time Darien Johnson walked to the intersection of Genesee Street and Plymouth Avenue, he knew there was a chance he would never come back. It may have just been a few blocks from his mother’s Rochester, New York home, but it was still, after all, rival territory.
“For maybe about a mile, it’s ridiculous, there’s probably a different gang on every corner,” Johnson, a senior communication major and short sprinter at UB, said.