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Updates from South Africa point to student-athlete experience

With most of Notre Dame’s football team is assembled on campus for the beginning of summer workouts and classes, a group of the university’s student-athletes is experiencing life on another continent in the newly formed study abroad program.

While we mostly stick to football in these parts, we mentioned the abbreviated study abroad program that is allowing student-athletes to take part in a valuable student experience that has until now been unavailable to them because of their athletic commitments.

Well, we’ve gotten two updates from UND.com’s travel journals, and it appears that the experience is a memorable one.