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There is only one Carli Lloyd, the newly minted finalist for FIFA's Ballon d'Or and at the moment, with apologies to Alexi Lalas, the highest profile soccer alumnus of Rutgers University.
Yet as Rutgers travels to its first College Cup with 22 players who are from the state of New Jersey, equaling the number of homegrown products for semifinalists Duke, Florida State and Penn State combined, the program's ongoing breakthrough season is rooted in a lot of young women who followed in her footsteps by not following the New Jersey Turnpike south to programs of more familiar pedigree.