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Chaunte Lowe, an alumna of the School of Economics, was featured in “Tech's Chaunte Lowe Has High-Jump Medal Podium in Sight” for The Atlanta Journal-Constiution.
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Lowe, whose competition begins with preliminaries Thursday, is far from the rising junior who represented the U.S. in the 2004 Olympics, when she became Tech’s first-ever female Olympian. She is married with three children. In 2015, she scaled back on her training to care for her daughter Aurora, who was demonstrating behavioral issues that doctors believed were related to autism or Asperger’s Syndrome. Previously based in metro Atlanta, the Lowes now live in Orlando. Lowe and Page keep up through videos of workouts and phone calls.
“This time at the Olympics, I won’t be a sophomore in college, or a mother, nursing a one-year-old,” Lowe told news media at the Olympics. “So this time I put myself in the best advantage, and I think that’s really going to work well for me this time.”
For the full article, read here.
