Trojans rower Anastasiia Slivina and Matadors tennis player Yuliia Zhytelna are homesick, worried and dealing with guilt while thinking of their families in Kyiv.
They’re homesick and sick with worry, stuck in a situation where the only recourse is to be a rock for their families, rock stars in their own orbits. To live well.It’s an impossible mission, but Anastasiia Slivina, a rower at USC, and Yuliia Zhytelna, a tennis player at Cal State Northridge, they’re doing their best.
Anastasiia Slivina posed for a photo with her brother, Konstantin, and her mother, Oksana, in Kyiv, before Russia invaded and the war began. “You never know,” Slivina continued, “where the missile’s gonna fall, and if it’s gonna fall on you those days that you’re there. Or whatever else can happen. But it’s actually very hard being here because there’s a thing, one of our sports told me, when you are safe but some of your loved ones are not …”“I have the same thing!” Zhytelna said.
USC women’s rowing coach Josh Adam said the Trojans have rallied around Ukrainian teammate Anastasiia Slivina, who he said has nonetheless made a “herculean effort” to make sure the team doesn’t know how much of what’s going on back home is actually affecting her. His final unflinching words – “Glory to Ukraine” – spread on Telegram and Twitter, ubiquitous and unavoidable for even Zhytelna, who’d weaned herself off graphic footage from home.
“It wasn’t a personal thing, but for Yuliia, anything connected to that part of the world right now is an open sore.” And last year at Northridge, teammate Magdalena Hedrzak helped the Zhytelna family find a place to stay for a while in her native Poland. Another tennis contact helped get Zhytelna’s younger sister safely into a tennis academy in France. And Yuliia leaned a lot on her doubles partner before she graduated, Ekaterina Repina understanding where she was coming from better than just about anyone, because Repina is Russian.
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