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Natalia Martinez, NCAA athlete from NJ, used racial slur before withdrawing from Georgia State

For the second time in eight days, a New Jersey native is no longer a college student after using a racial slur on social media.

Georgia State women's soccer player Natalia Martinez reportedly was suspended and withdrew from school after a message in which she used the N-word on one of her social media accounts came to the attention of school officials.

Martinez is a native of Elizabeth who played high school soccer in Florida, according to her bio on the school's official athletics website. The page since has been removed.

Martinez used the racial slur on her Finsta page -- a supposedly private spin-off of the popular Instagram -- and a campus petition calling for the university to take expel Martinez had more than 500 signatures by Monday afternoon, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.