On the San Diego men’s basketball team, five student-athletes hail from different countries in four different continents, from Northeastern Europe to Africa’s West Coast to the South American countryside to the Balkans to the Caribbean Islands. Several of their American-born teammates have international roots too, such as Neel Beniwal, one of four DI players of Indian descent, while other Toreros have family ties in Greece and Mexico.
When the five arrived in the states, they were welcomed with open arms by their teammates, classmates, coaches and support staff. Again, they all shared the same sentiments – that the USD community, their teachers on and off the court, the culture of their peers on the hoops team, have made adjusting to their new home and family, easy.
