Luckily snatched out of his soccer beginnings, Wicthiel is making the most of his basketball career, upon a grant from Sports Without Borders, with a tour of the US and looking for a place in college. A mere stepping stone on his dream to play for Australia.
Although brilliance is sometimes found through much hard work and training, it seems that Wicthiel Tut was able to be brilliant enough at one sport to be ensnared to a completely different one.
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Timas is an unlikely champion. He is a refugee from Sudan who was separated from his family for a year and spent time in a refugee camp in Egypt before being reunited with them in Australia.
His age was appropriated, because his birth certificate was washed away in a flood. He turned 16 on January 1, 2010. This is his story.
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Girls Getting into Sport
Girls Getting into Sport is a participation program run by the South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) Youth and funded by Sports Without Borders which provided opportunities for refugee female students at Eumemmering Secondary College, Fountain Gate Campus. Participants in the program were all females in years 7 to 10 at school and represented a range of ethnic and religious backgrounds with the majority groups being Afghan,
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Majak Daw - First Sudanese to be rookied to the AFL?]]>
Lindsay is helping to develop good football habits at an early age, and has honoured his father to boot.]]>
Bachar Houli made history in 2008 as the first practicing Muslim to play in the AFL making his debut for Essendon having graduated from the Victorian Metro Under 18 team and being picked at number 42 in the draft.]]>