Cedric Thompson retraced some of the steps that led him from L.A. to a dusty California outpost to, finally, the Gophers football team.
Seth Dixon‘s insight:
A young man for the tough streets of South Central Los Angeles found refuge from from gang troubles out in the desert in a community on the Salton Sea. His family believes this unconventional move was key to him becoming a successful football player at the University of Minnesota. His personal geographies follows uncommon migrational patterns, but it demonstrates that personal geographies can show some of the great diversity that is a part of the human mosaic.
Tags: Los Angeles, sport, migration.
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GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION 
July 11, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Thanks Seth. This reminds me of Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s comments at GeoTech when I saw him there a few years ago – he had NO role models for the field he ultimately chose – astronomy. It was a great testimony for the following: Sometimes you have to go it alone.