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McCallie faces great expectations at Duke

By Mechelle Voepel
ESPN.com

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Joanne P. McCallie visited Duke in 1982, recruited to play there by then-head coach Debbie Leonard and assistant Jackie Silar, who is now the Blue Devils' associate athletics director. McCallie was still Joanne Palombo then, a high school player with very lofty goals for her life. "Duke was the first recruiting letter I ever received, in ninth grade," said McCallie, who spoke to me by phone from Durham, N.C., on Friday morning, not long before her introductory news conference as the Blue Dev ...

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