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Amazing recovery

By Scott Powers
ESPNChicago.com

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

CHICAGO -- Loyola University senior setter Lauren Ditscheit is given the option to smile as the photographer begins to take her picture beside the volleyball net in Alumni Gym on a recent afternoon. The choice is simple. "I like to smile," she says. This is the Lauren everyone knows. She smiles when she sets an assist. She smiles when her teammates score a point. She smiles on the court, in the classroom and during her numerous campus meetings. She smiles when others smile. She smiles to ma ...

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