Miles and nations away from home, international student-athletes face different circumstances when it comes to home life year-round. Now, those circumstances face new challenges with each announcement made because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This includes the decision athletes made last spring whether to stay or head home, unsure of what may be next as the March announcement halted Creighton’s in-person classes and the opportunities to play quickly disappeared.
For two men’s soccer players, junior goalkeeper Paul Kruse and junior midfielder Alejandro Maillet, the March decision flipped their previous expectations entirely.
Kruse, from Heilbronn, Germany, stayed in Omaha with the plan of playing in an Omaha summer league, but that was canceled.