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As much as Paula Valino Ramos yearns for the smiling faces and familiar scenes of her hometown in northwestern Spain, the Iowa women’s basketball player knows she’s safer where she is.
Ramos, one of nearly 150 international athletes spread across Iowa’s four Division I universities this academic year, is entrenched in Iowa City for the immediate future and beyond amid the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. Plans to travel home after a halted basketball season evaporated once Spain closed its land borders on March 16, eliminating any guarantee Ramos could return to the U.