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UTEP international athletes support each other, find solidarity amid COVID

The Prospector | September 14, 2020

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Karoline Daland and Taylor Stone, two international athletes, moved in with other athletes when COVID struck

(L-R); Briana Bustillos, Karoline Daland, Mahra Mcleod and Taylor Stone lived together when student residents were directed out of student housing.

Karoline Daland said she had been training so hard to finish off the track & field season earlier this year, but then COVID-19 took the world by storm. Her next track meet was only a week away, but it suddenly got canceled.

When the pandemic upended the college experience in March, most international student athletes suddenly had to pay for expensive airplane tickets to go back home, but some of them stayed in the United States.

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