People of all races, colors, religions, and backgrounds walk through the campus to class every day. What is less known though is the diversity of our athletic program, and the number of international athletes in it.
Athletes come from all over the world, with at least one person hailing from every habitable continent except Africa. Even with the lack of hometown Africans, there are Africans apart of the athletic program. Two men’s soccer players, Rashid Alarape and Junior Akande, are Nigerian. Akande was born in Liverpool, England making him one of the international athletes at Georgia State. Alarape is from Georgia, but his parents were born in Nigeria, which gave him the opportunity to train with the Nigerian Olympic team, something that made his family euphoric.