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Nate Heise is a senior guard on the Iowa State men’s basketball team. His older sister, Taylor Heise, just won the gold medal with Team USA hockey.
Growing up, my older sister, Taylor, wrote one word in black Sharpie over the light switch in her bedroom: Olympics.
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She not only wrote it, she believed it. And no matter what anyone told her, she was going to make it happen.
She had goals written all over the place. She had a poster in her room that she wrote goals on. Things like: Make the USA Team.
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