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Pink Panthers Win Gold!

Double Dutch Team Ropes in Gold at AAU Junior Olympics

August 27, 2009

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The Pink Panthers double dutch jumpers are a blur of pink and black as they flip-flop, skip and cartwheel between two ropes slicing through the air around them. The rope makes a sharp pitter-patter as it smacks against the blacktop outside the Hazel Crest Recreational Center where the team practices.

The Pink Panthers' 15- to 17-year-old team recently brought home the gold medal for overall excellence, placing in all five events at the Amateur Athletic Union Junior Olympics in Des Moines, Iowa and becoming the first Illinois team ever to win gold overall at the competition.

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