At 12-years-old, Farina was one of just a few golfers from Southern Italy to make the Italian National Team. As she approached high school graduation, Farina had two options: attend a university and stop playing golf competitively or turn professional and not go to school. For Farina, neither one of those options was going to work.
“I wasn’t ready for golf to be my whole life,” Farina said. “I wanted to have a background in something else in case golf didn’t work out, but that wouldn’t really be possible to do without going over to the United States.”
Fortunately, several American universities expressed interest in Farina as both a student and an athlete. More than any other, Maryland made her feel confident that she would be taken care of in a completely foreign country.
“I just knew right away that I was going to be cared for as an international student.”
As a result, even with her official visit taking place over Skype, Farina enrolled at the University of Maryland.
“It was a crazy, long journey from practicing in my backyard, to playing for the Italian National Team, to playing at Maryland, but it’s one I wouldn’t trade.”
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