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          After four years at Rutgers, Kia Vaughn will play for the Liberty this season

 Every day of school for four years, Kia Vaughn would get off the subway from the Bronx at Penn Station and walk past Madison Square Garden on her way down 33rd St. to St. Michael Academy. The small all-girls school with a gym that has a low ceiling and concrete columns throughout the court is where Vaughn’s basketball dreams began.

Those dreams have come true as the 6-4 center now calls the Garden home.

“It’s a big leap,” Vaughn said yesterday of going from being one of the city’s top high school players to a first-round selection (eighth overall) by her hometown Liberty in last month’s WNBA draft. “It’ll be an inspiration, I hope.” Read more..

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Though the Rutgers women’s track team has had two weeks off to prepare for the upcoming Metropolitan Championships in the Bronx, the meet has been burning in the back of Rutgers’ minds for a year now.
For six straight seasons, the Scarlet Knights walked away from the Armory Track and Field Center victorious. Then came last year, where the team was edged out of their seventh consecutive championship win by a mere five points by Seton Hall.
Today, the Knights return to the Big Apple to take another shot at the Pirates as well as their seventh Metropolitan Championship victory in eight years.
“We’re ready to start a new [victory] streak,” said head coach James Robinson. Read more..

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