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Princeton University Athletics
Pete Callahan Featured in Town Topics
June 23, 2011 | Men's Soccer
Bill Alden, Town Topics
June 22, 2011
Pete Callahan gained a memorable lesson in what it means to stand out in a crowd during the gap year he took before entering Princeton University in 2007.
Playing for a soccer team in Kenya while doing some church service there, the Princeton High alum turned heads due to the color of his skin.
"I played on a soccer team there; we traveled to little village towns where we would clear away the goats and play," said Callahan.
"I was the only white player and there would be hundreds of people watching, yelling 'mzungu,' their word for white man."
When Callahan came back to the U.S. and started college in 2007, he had a clearer view of some of the things he wanted to accomplish at Princeton.