Dalia Hurtado is a tough girl with a tender heart who participates in five sports. She stays active to keep her mind off the daily struggles of life.
That practice paid off last October when Dalia, a junior wearing No. 47 on her red Garfield jersey and kicking left-footed, made the final extra point in a 61-0 rout of Huntington Park.In part because of Dalia’s example, Garfield coach Lorenzo Hernandez says, there are now eight girls on his football team. None of them get special treatment.
On the weekends, when there weren’t any games or practices, Dalia helped her grandmother sell homemade tacos andsending much of what she earned to her family in Mexico. That stopped for a while with COVID-19. “When she’s in practice, she’s just smiling, just wants to kick the ball, run and just play, forgetting about all the other problems,” he said. “I’m pretty sure she uses sports as a method of dealing with the absence of her mom.”
“I think her thing right now is trying to find herself,” said Sandra Williams, whose daughter Samantha was one of the first girls Dalia met when she returned from Mexico. “I tell her to do whatever is best for her. Don’t let other people influence whatever your heart tells you,” said Sandra Williams, who now lives in Corona. “She’s a really good girl for all she’s been through. She’s very smart.”
Dalia’s duality is evidenced every time she speaks, with conversations gliding seamlessly from English to Spanish and back again, the language switching whenever she hits a word she doesn’t know. That’s not uncommon at Garfield, where the student body is overwhelmingly Mexican American and where many share cross-border backgrounds similar to Dalia’s.
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