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Matt Carl ’17 Profiled in The Roanoke Times

“An avid soccer player who was a member of the university’s team, Carl used what he calls the ‘universal language’ of soccer to organize games – overcoming a language and cultural barrier to connect with the refugee children.”

Reporter Laurence Hammack of The Roanoke Times profiled graduating senior Matt Carl in today’s commencement story, “W&L graduate used the ‘universal language’ of soccer to help Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Germany.”

Read the full story online.