Zambian Zooms To Fore For UNM

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May 28, 2002

By Edgar Thompson
Albuquerque Tribune

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - When he was growing up in Zambia, Lobos freshman Madalitso Muthiya's passion for golf seemed to be a little misplaced.

Soccer is the national sport in the impoverished nation, which is in south-central Africa. And golf, viewed in other countries as a game a person can enjoy for a lifetime, didn't seem to fit in where the life expectancy of the average male is only 37 years.

"If you're growing up in Africa," Muthiya said, "it's impossible in a sport like golf to make it to a United States college."

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