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Getting Personal: Amanda McGrory

Each week, we offer a Q&A with a local personality. Today, 30-year-old Savoy resident Amanda McGrory, a professional athlete and a graduate student, teaching assistant and research assistant at the University of Illinois, chats with The News-Gazette's Melissa Merli.

What interests you the most right now?

3-D printing. We've been experimenting with it at our training center to replicate our expensive and custom-made wheelchair racing gloves. It's completely changed the way we manufacture and customize what was once a very complicated piece of equipment.

Tell us something few people know about you.