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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

From the Virginia-Pilot: College degree. Check. WNBA. Check. All by age 20.

Bending forward on the team bench at the Verizon Center, 6-foot-5 Quanitra Hollingsworth is an imposing presence, her long legs making the folding chair under her resemble something from a preschool classroom.

The Minnesota Lynx roster lists her as a rookie center. What it doesn't say is that on draft day in April, at 20 years, 145 days, Chesapeake's Hollings-worth became the youngest American-born woman in WNBA history to be drafted into the league after being selected in the first round.