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Meghan Musnicki, poetic pride of Naples, is veteran leader of dominant U.S. women’s eight

When Meghan Musnicki returned home to Naples, N.Y., after winning 2012 Olympic rowing women’s eight gold, she was feted with a congratulatory banner, a parade and a poem.

“I rode in the back of a convertible, and my nana got put in a Camaro and was driven down the center of Main Street,” Musnicki said.

The town’s poet laureate, Hank Ranney, read to Musnicki in front of a good chunk of the 2,500 natives of Naples in western New York.

Here’s what he said:

Meghan Musnicki, now that’s a name to remember.