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this year. It kind of took some of my time away from the throwers, but Raleigh stepped up and really helped work with the other ones as well.

“Also, she’s a softball player. She’s going to college to play softball and she only does track in her spare time. She went down to state this year and competed

against girls who do this year-round and she won. Obviously, the talent is there and if push ever came to shove and softball ended for her, I’m sure some track coach somewhere would love to have her. There’s just no replacing her.”

Lewis added that she will miss the solitude that the discus ring provided.

“I’m going to miss being able to get in that ring and not having to

think about anything and just do what comes by muscle memory,” she said. “In softball, you’re constantly thinking what to do next or the next play, but when you’re in that ring, it’s all on you. There’s no one else there to take the blame. There’s no excuses. It’s just you and the disc.

“I’m really going to miss that independence. I really like that aspect of it.”