Now a Vancouver corporate lawyer and cancer survivor, TWolves basketball alumni basketball player says PG people go above and beyond to create caring community
But for the first few days after he first moved up to Prince George from Golden to begin his studies on the Cranbrook Hill campus in the fall of 2015, Saje Gosal and two UNBC Timberwolves basketball teammates, Anthony Kokanson and Neal Randawa, pretty much had the place to themselves.
“We were in it, we belonged here, within a month, we felt like we were home,” said Gosal, the guest alumni speaker at last week’s UNBC Timberwolves Legacy Night at the Civic Centre. “Within the first couple of weeks I knew I belonged at the University of Northern British Columbia and I knew I belonged to the people of Prince George, because of the way people made me feel.
“Being an athlete at UNBC, you’re blessed with an opportunity that is hard to grasp in the moment. You have the support of a community and a support system the depths of which are hard to understand when you’re there. People will drop everything to help you here in Prince George. They will uproot and check on you unprompted and will push you to be the best version of yourself, and that same thing is true when you graduate.
“They sent care packages, hand-written notes, they grew moustaches, they shaved their heads. Markus got a tattoo of me that’s still there. They raised money and I got to be the beneficiary of these programs that I helped start.” “I was able to continue on, financially, emotionally, spiritually, with the support of my community around me,” Gosal said.
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