She’s one girl with family in two places. Playing five sports helped her cope — until the quarantine
Like many girls her age, Dalia Hurtado is having an identity crisis.
Unlike most girls her age — to say nothing of most boys — Dalia deals with it by playing five sports: She’s on the varsity football, volleyball and soccer teams at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles and participates in soccer, softball and boxing through neighborhood and club programs.
She’s a one-girl lesson in diversity: a U.S. citizen with Mexican parents, a tough girl with a tender heart, a rugged athlete who applies her makeup with great care, a teenager who wants to hang out with friends yet spends much of her free time on weekends helping her grandmother.
“I’m tired. But no tanto. It’s become a routine.”
It’s become a way of coping too as she tries to find her way in this world, buoyed by a tenacity that has defined her life from an early age.
