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Aug. 15, 2010 1:07 am

And before she departed for a two-sport career at Florida International University, a journey that begins when the FIU volleyball season opens this month, she routinely found gold in the sand of long jump pits in Iowa, winning two state championships and two Drake Relays titles.

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