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By DARREN MILLER
hawkeyesports.com
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A passport is required these days to watch Erik Sowinski run in big competitions.
Sowinski enrolled at the University of Iowa in the fall of 2008, armed with a Wisconsin High School 800-meter state championship (1:54.