From Sudan, a 'Diamond' of a Runner ; While He Studies to Be a Doctor and Works to Bring His Mother to the U.S., Une's Bosco Oringa Gets Tranquility From His Sport.

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Bosco Oringa was just a boy when he fled his native Sudan on foot with his grandmother and two cousins. They walked for a week to a refugee camp in Uganda, where he spent 10 years. He was separated from his mother, and his father had been killed years earlier in a civil war.

Oringa attended crowded schools, sometimes crouching under a tree while he waited for a teacher to come outside to share the lesson.

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From Sudan, a 'Diamond' of a Runner ; While He Studies to Be a Doctor and Works to Bring His Mother to the U.S., Une's Bosco Oringa Gets Tranquility From His Sport.

Today, Oringa is a freshman at the University of New England, studying to be a doctor.

By afternoon, he runs with the cross country team, showing flashes of remarkable natural ability that his coach b...

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