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USU students create tribute to Ukrainian student-athlete at basketball game

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Posted at 10:29 PM, Feb 26, 2022
and last updated 2022-02-27 18:21:51-05

LOGAN, Utah — The student section at a Utah State basketball game paid tribute to one of their own players whose home country of Ukraine is under attack.

Scott Garrard, a play-by-play radio broadcaster for USU Athletics, posted a photo on Twitter showing hundreds of students holding up blue and yellow colored paper to replicate the Ukrainian flag design as Max Shulga checked in to the game.

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Shulga is a sophomore guard for the Aggies and is from Kyiv, Ukraine.

"The place erupted when Shulga scored on a driving layup soon after this moment," Garrard wrote.