Daily News | Inside Haftu Strintzos’ journey from Ethiopia to Australia to Villanova cross-country star
Instead, the Villanova graduate student will race on Friday in the Mid-Atlantic Regional, where the Wildcats are favored to advance to the NCAA Championships the following weekend in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Strintzos is the Wildcats’ top distance runner,Before Strintzos became one of the most successful cross-country runners in Villanova history, he was an orphaned 10-year-old in Tigray, Ethiopia.
That decision opened up opportunities. Strintzos had become familiar with an Australian woman named Maria who had volunteered in Tigray for over 30 years. Maria had helped countless orphans through her work, and when she met Strintzos, she knew she wanted to adopt him. “[Maria] felt an enormous responsibility to make sure she was going to put him [in the right place] in the next step of his life,” Villanova head coach Marcus O’Sullivan said. “This wasn’t just a randomly picked school. For her, having a Christian background, having a good academic school [would] get him ready for the next stages in life.”
He is thankful for all he’s accomplished, realizing how different his life could have been if not for his grandmother.
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