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Ochoa is first Mexican national to play on LPGA Tour

Associated Press

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Lorena Ochoa wasn't sure she could make it to the top. It was her fourth day on Mexico's tallest mountain. Her little legs felt like mush as she climbed the snow-covered top of the Pico de Orizaba, a dormant volcano with an elevation of 18,405 feet -- the third-highest peak in North America. She was 12 years old. "We got to the peak, and I was really tired,'' Ochoa said. "It was windy and cold, and I was feeling bad. It took me six months of training really hard for that, an ...

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