Two players on one of the winningest college teams on the west coast found community on the hilltop, thousands of miles from home
University of San Francisco freshman basketball forward Junjie “Barry” Wang said it has been an effortless transition moving to The City after spending most of his life in his hometown of Xuzhou, China.“I think here, it’s better than China!” he told The Examiner with a big laugh shortly after a practice inside War Memorial Gym, the Dons’ basketball arena for the last 70 years.
“San Francisco is arguably the best city in the country for players that come from backgrounds like Mike and Barry,” Gerlufsen said. “We have a natural built-in home field for those guys, outside of our basketball family, to have unbelievable both Mongolian and Chinese populations here in The City to make them feel at home. When you have that built in, we’d be stupid to not try and take advantage.
“San Francisco is huge!” Wang said. “Everywhere I look, there are Asian people. Our team has a lot of Asian guys too.” He said the presence of Asians on the staff is part of the reason he chose to play in San Francisco. “I was comfortable right away,” he said.
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