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Rollins earns bid to Olympics

CLEMSON, S.C. — Former Clemson great Brianna Rollins made history Friday, becoming only the second female in women’s track & field program history to make the U.S. Olympic Team. Rollins, a 2013 Clemson graduate and winner of The Bowerman, will compete for the red, white and blue in the 100 hurdles on August 16-17 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the third confirmed women’s track athlete from Clemson to advance to the 2016 Olympic Games, joining Natoya Goule of Jamaica and Joana Costa of Brazil.

Rollins joins Kim Graham (1996) as the only Clemson female track athletes to make Team USA.