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Article: Ex-Virginia Cavalier Dawn Staley: Once shy, now a star.(Originated from Newport News Daily Press)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- July 29, 1996
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ATLANTA _ Dawn Staley is on the cover of TV Guide. She co-stars in a Nike commercial directed by Spike Lee. She holds court with reporters after the U.S. women's basketball team's latest Olympic blowout.
Is this right? Is this the same Dawn Staley who arrived at the University of Virginia as a painfully shy kid fearful that her inner-city Philadelphia roots might not grow in a pretentious town like Charlottesville?
One and the same. It's Dawn Staley, cover girl, media darling, spokeswoman for her game.
``I realize the importance of uplifting women's basketball,'' Staley said Monday after scoring 11 points in the U.S.'s 105-64 rout of South Korea. ``I ...