By Harry Minium
Ethan Duane said a tearful farewell to his family in Melbourne, Australia in January of 2019, boarded a plane and headed to America to play football for Old Dominion.
It was a dream come true for the Australian Rules Football and rugby player, who trained for nearly a year in the ProKick Australia program to learn to punt a football, American style. His reward was a full scholarship to play college football in the United States.
But little did he know that a pandemic would strike and shut down much of the world and thus deny him the chance to see his family for nearly two years, and who knows how much longer.