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Flowery Branch grad Hope Stockel pleased with strong showing at Junior World Championships
Athlete aspires to make Summer Olympics in 2020 or 2024
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Flowery Branch High graduate Hope Stockel competes in the clean and jerk at the 2015 Junior World Championships on June 9 in Wroclaw, Poland. - photo by For The Times
Hope Stockel’s life revolves around clean living and lifting heavy weight. The diet of a typical young adult is not conducive to making the Summer Olympic Games, like Stockel strives to do, in either 2020 or 2024. Still, this 20-year-old Flowery Branch High graduate recently had reason to celebrate a great performance way across the globe, lifting in a pair of events at the Junior World Championships June 9 in Wroclaw, Poland.
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