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...upon a time, the girls didn't have to do much besides jump and look cute. These days they do standing backflips and other moves that require a high degree of athleticism--and endless practice. "Cheerleading is one of the hardest things you can do," says Breanna Oviedo of Euless Junior High near Dallas. She should know, since she also plays basketball, soccer and softball and runs track. Her squad mate Monica Brigham, also a soccer player, shows off wrist injuries from lifting the lighter girls for stunts. "They sell a T shirt that says ATHLETES LIFT WEIGHTS, BUT CHEERLEADERS...
...chance encounter with an assistant swimming coach (Idziak was a three-time All-American swimmer at Euless Trinity High School in Bedford, TX) during an unplanned visit to the Harvard campus eventually led Idziak to pick, somewhat reluctantly, Cold, Distant Ivy League College over Appealing Fun State University. The distance between Bedford and Cambridge felt even longer when he quit the swimming team after only three weeks. “I got depressed,” he said. “In high school I was always ‘the swimmer,’ and I kind of lost...