Tallahassee, Fla. – The Florida State cross country and track and field programs welcomed two new assistant coaches and elevated Alex Midgett last week. Midgett was promoted to the women’s assistant cross country and distance coach after serving as the operations assistant. She will work with head coach Bob Braman, who will be the head coach for both men’s and women’s cross country and track and field programs. Douglas Reynolds comes to Tallahassee with a wealth of coaching experience and will be the assistant throws coach, while 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Leevan Sands will serve as the assistant jumps coach.
It is not easy to watch friends suffer through the horrors of a determined effort to eliminate their families and ethic group through the tools of murder, rape, and famine.
Husband and wife, Geb Kiros and Tsige Tadesse were born in the Tigray region and grew up in north west Ethiopia. She left Ethiopia in 1987 to live in Greece until 1990 when she moved to Philadelphia. She found her way to Tallahassee in 2006.
Despite all the wonderful athletes from Ethiopia we get to watch compete throughout the world, fabulously representing their country, there is a history of ethnic based violence that sets the second largest country in Africa back from its potential. And builds resentments that smolder and come to life again at unexpected times.