Clark '92 uses soccer experience to promote HIV awareness
After completing a successful soccer career at Dartmouth, Tommy Clark '92 pursued his dream of playing professional soccer in a country whose own inhabitants were often searching for a way out. In Bulawayo, the second largest city in landlocked, sub-Saharan Zimbabwe, where Clark had lived for a few years as a teenager, the 22-year old graduate suited up for the Bulawaya Highlanders, a sobering experience that might not have advanced his soccer career, but impacted his life in ways that he never could have foreseen. As a soccer pro and volunteer English teacher at the English Youth Contact Center, Clark watched several of his teammates, fellow teachers at the school and other friends and acquaintances fall victim to HIV/AIDS, which has ravaged the country.
