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READY FOR WHATEVER

Katie Lou Samuelson has been hooping for so long that she can’t even remember when she started. She was just always in the gym.

“I have two older sisters and when they started playing basketball I would always be over on the sidelines,” Samuelson says.

The 6-3 forward has become one of the best players in the nation. She’s a lock

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