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Gamecocks gain respect in SEC, NCAA

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

University of South Carolina senior defender Blakely Mattern grew up in the shadow of the ACC, a league long the gold standard of women's college soccer. A native of Greenville, S.C., she attended soccer camps at nearby Clemson and watched from the stands as some of the game's premier programs came through to play the Tigers in conference rivalries. The daughter of a North Carolina graduate, she idolized iconic Tar Heels such as Kristine Lilly and Cindy Parlow. Yet as the years and months of ...

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