Topic: Parthenon: Senegal native hooping for The Herd

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One of the Herd’s basketball players competes a long way from home. Junior center Yous Mbao is from Senegal, Africa. It takes him over 18 hours to travel from his hometown to Huntington.

Mbao left his home country when he was 14-years-old to live in other parts of the world to play basketball. Mbao lived in Germany for a year, then France and Spain before he came to the United States to live in California where he attended a prep school. After attending prep school he went to play collegiate basketball at Marquette University for a year. Mbao then got in contact with Marshall University and transferred here to being playing his sophomore year.

Mbao said when he first left his country it was extremely difficult to get used to being so far away from his family and friends.

“It was hard for me and my family to adjust to what I was doing over here, but now they are more used to it and are happy for me,” Mbao said.

Link: http://www.marshallparthenon.com/senegal-native-hooping-for-the-herd-1.2787080#.UJI-SWfWZL8