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NC native and rugby star Capt. Sammy Sullivan heads to 2024 Summer Olympics

By Leoneda Inge,

Published July 16, 2024 at 10:08 AM EDT

Captain Sammy Sullivan is the winner of the 2019 Prusmack Award for top female collegiate rugby sevens player and a member of this year's U.S. Olympics team for women's rugby sevens.

Captain Sammy Sullivan did not set out to become an elite rugby sevens player. The West Point grad initially set her sights on soccer at West Point. But fate stepped in, and she found herself representing her country in rugby, first at her college, then in various elite competitions across the world, and now at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.

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Captain Samantha Sullivan, Fayetteville, NC native, graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and soldier-athlete in the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A, as well as WUNC’s The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for WUNC's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC’s The Takeaway.

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