For the last few years, more than 5,600 miles have separated Texas State women’s tennis student-athlete Hana Kvapilova from her family in Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic. But what she did not know yet was the new family that was awaiting her in the United States.
A land with new experiences was waiting for her: a new way of training, a new type of learning, new friendships, among others. But the one experience that was as foreign to her as her country to live in: flying.
Her new journey to the United States was the first time she flew in her life.