Anyone who has been to a girls’ basketball game at Memorial High School knows who Lily Cayley is. Her name booms over the loudspeaker time after time as she sinks bucket after bucket. She dominates the court.
Lily has always been athletic — when she was younger, she played soccer, and she was pretty good. She determined that she was going to be in the Olympics for soccer.
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