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Paige Bueckers (born 2001) is an American college basketball player for the University of Connecticut (UConn) Huskies in the NCAA Division I. A 5-foot-11-inch (1.80 m) point guard, she became the first freshman to win a major national college player of the year award. She led UConn to the Final Four as a freshman and to the national championship game as a sophomore. Bueckers played varsity basketball for Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minnesota, from eighth grade and helped the team win the state title as a junior. She was considered the number one high school player in her class by ESPN, earned national high school player of the year honors in her senior season and graduated from Hopkins as one of Minnesota's most distinguished high school players. A three-time gold medalist for the United States in youth basketball, Bueckers was named Most Valuable Player of the 2019 FIBA Under-19 World Cup, and USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year in the same year. (Full article...)

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Jasmin Moghbeli (born 1983) is an American Marine Corps test pilot and NASA astronaut. As of 2019, she has accumulated more than 2,000 hours of flight time and flown in 150 combat missions, including sorties during the War in Afghanistan. She has been assigned as the commander of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch in 2023. This official portrait of Moghbeli as a NASA astronaut candidate was taken in 2017.

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