January 11, 2008
From Holland to Harvard, With a Stopover in Hong Kong
Francine Polet, a field-hockey player and junior at Harvard University, was born in the Netherlands, grew up in Malaysia, lived in Belgium for a while, and went to high school in Hong Kong. It's safe to say she is one of the most international of the growing number of international players in college sports.
She has had to adapt to so many different cultures and languages — she speaks fluent Dutch and English, and conversational French, German, and Mandarin — that
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