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Watch: SMU's Jackie Galloway ready to kick butt in Olympic taekwondo

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Jackie Galloway, of Sachse, Texas, stands for a portrait in Chang Lee's Taekwondo in Garland, Texas Thursday December 17, 2015. Galloway, who is ranked fourth in the world in the heavyweight Taekwondo division, is the first qualifier for the United States Olympic Taekwondo team that will be competing in Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Galloway started with the martial arts form at the age of 7. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)

Wylie High grad Jackie Galloway doubles as an SMU mechanical engineering student and a worldwide Taekwondo fiend. The 20-year-old local won bronze at the 2015 world championship and gold at the Pan-American Games the same year.