NAU student-athlete Lopez Lomong proved to be one of the finest runners in the country in March when he captured a national championship in the men’s 3,000 meters. Photo by Errol Anderson

Lopez Lomong on HBO this month

NAU track and field student-athlete Lopez Lomong will be featured on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel throughout the remainder of September.

Real Sports correspondent Mary Carillo and producer Mike Sullivan traveled back to Africa with Lomong to be reunited with his biological parents for the first time in 16 years.

After years of running from the dangers that haunted his childhood in war-ravaged Sudan, Lomong now runs toward a much different goal: making the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. Taken from his home at the age of 6 and imprisoned by rebel soldiers, Lomong escaped and spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp. Later, Lomong was brought to the United States and raised by a new family.

See the HBO schedule online.