Four years ago, when she was 18 years old, Natalie Dubon traveled alone from her native Honduras to San Diego in search of a better life.
Carolina Soto, head coach of Southwestern College’s women’s soccer team, speaks to players on Wednesday. The Jaguars won this season’s Pacific Coast Athletic Conference. Perhaps more memorable to them was the sense of pride they built in South County as a team composed of all women of color with binational and first-generation student-athletes, and the rapport they established with younger generations.
“It just felt like I could impact someone at a young age and inspire them to hopefully keep going and get to the next level,” said Marin, who has lived in Tijuana since she was in middle school.
Sounds so racist I can hardly find the words.