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Brenda Taylor ’01 and senior Dora Gyorffy have earned spots on their respective national teams and are eligible to compete in the World University Games. Taylor placed third in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles at the U.S. Nationals in late June, while Gyorffy is the top-ranked high jumper in Hungary...
Taylor’s Hungarian classmate Dora Gyorffy ‘00 is ninth in the world on the high jump performance lists, based on her outdoor-best effort of 1.96 meters, which she reached at Princeton’s Weaver Stadium during her final Harvard reading period...
...Costa enrolled in EDISCA, and the school changed her life, as it has the lives of 800 other girls ages 6 to 19--and a few boys--from Fortaleza, a coastal city in Brazil's poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being lured...
...EDISCA doesn't form dancers, it forms people," says Da Costa, now 19 and heading for college. She plans to start a dance school of her own "to pass on everything I learned from Dora...
...Crimson's strength lied principally in perhaps the greatest senior class in school history, led by co-captains Taylor and Marna Schutte and Olympic high jumper Dora Gyorffy...