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Hurd gets a running start

By Jared Zwerling
ESPN RISE Magazine

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Editor's Note: This story appears in the November 2009 Greater Seattle issue of ESPN RISE Magazine. It's Monday morning and Emily Hurd is getting ready for another challenging week. It will be an unusual one for a high school senior. She'll take classes with older students and train against boys on the soccer field. That's because Hurd, the 2008-09 Gatorade State Player of the Year, is not actually attending high school. Hurd, who is technically a senior at Eastlake (Sammamish, Wash.), opted t ...

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