Local Olympians - Who's Now

Summer Olympics, Beijing, 8.8.08, NBC family of networks. There's that.

Local NBC affiliate WGAL 8 is providing an assist to NBC Uni's Olympic hyping by running a weekly feature detailing a local person/athlete connected to the the Beijing Games or the Olympics, in general. Thus far, I've seen a segment on a photographer and a few segments on judges or volunteers (old people). Oh, and a 50m three position rifle girl. That's fine and relatively interesting, but who's now, WGAL?!?

I'll tell you who's now... locally:

• Kim Glass, US Women's Volleyball team outside hitter. Ms. Glass, a Conestoga Valley grad, crushed records at the University of Arizona where she was a 3-time All-American. Granted, she hasn't officially been named to the US team yet, but I think she's got a spot.
  


• Hyleas Fountain, heptathlete. Ms. Fountain, who has a pretty cool name, is a Central Dauphin East grad and wound up at the University of Georgia via Barton County Community College. She already earned her spot to compete in Beijing by winning 5 of the 7 heptathlon events at the US Trials while posting a personal best score of 6,667. She's also attempting to qualify for the long jump.

So come August, if you're watching the Olympics, keep your eyes peeled for these two Olympic athletes that WGAL is seemingly ignoring. They're Who's Now!

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