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" Being a brakeman is very physical, and success is mostly determined by how fast you can push a sled for about 30 meters. "

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" I went to college, George Washington University, and played softball there. I also played professionally but with the real goal of being an Olympian and making the Olympic team. "

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" I played softball at George Washington University, and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the U.S. Olympic Team, but I don't know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad. "

" Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill. "

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" Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that? "

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" I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that. "

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" Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would. "