For the Oct. 15 edition of the Times-News, I wrote a hefty feature (a “Big Story”, as we call it) about a group of soccer players at Canyon Ridge High School in Twin Falls. None of the 19 players on this varsity boys soccer team were white, and eight of them were refugees from Africa and Asia.

I focused on those eight players in the story. My main goals were to learn about their childhoods in refugee camps, their adjustments to America, their lifestyles in Twin Falls and how soccer fit in to their lives.

Here’s the link to the piece: Riverhawk refuge: Soccer provides outlet for Canyon Ridge refugee students