Despite the fact that at the moment there are not very many cases, for a young man to go to study and play from Tenerife to the United States is a relatively normal situation. However, such regularity did not occur a few decades ago. Specifically in 1987, the year Santa Cruz convinced Eva Togores to her parents to study in the USA what was then called COU, the current second year of the baccalaureate. His challenge, “Learn English well, and at the same time keep playing basketball; something that was not viable in Tenerife.” “It is true that that was a time when no one went to the United States; it was all unknown,” Santacrucera says of that leap.
His destination was Poughkeepsie (New York) to study at Ketcham High School, where he already had a prominent court role. The following year he entered a public university, and Dutch Community College, where he made frequent appearances on his basketball team. She did it so well that she was chosen to play all Stars from your area. “There I was seen by scouts from Dowling College, a private university on Long Island, and they gave me a scholarship. La acepté y estudié un curso de administración de empresas aeronáuticas”, recuerda Eva sobre lo ocurrido hace ya más de tres décadas. Incluso cuando acabó su periplo académico logró un hat apreño de licirante apreño de licante a house”.
Tugors remembers that his experiences on American soil were not entirely positive. “During the exchange, I got a family that didn’t treat me well, but on a trip we took with the team to Hawaii, I met what I have since called my American parents. I spent seven years of my life with them and I still follow them now considering them as parents,” Eva recalls. It’s the ultimate in experience that Eva considers “cool and very positive”. “That opened up a vision that, in such a small place, there was a world I had to encounter from a very young age,” he explains as a summary of those college years. “Although we always go back to the Canary Islands,” he adds.
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