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Nia Allen: A Short Story Of An Athlete
Nia Allen is a bright and bubbly day student from right here in Pennsylvania. She started at Linden Hall as an eighth grader. Since then Nia worked hard in her classes during all five years that she has been here. While the schoolwork took up a large part of her time, Nia also spent a lot of hours outside of school training in competitive gymnastics and volunteering for the Special Olympics. As an athletic person, Nia also joined the Warwick Track & Field team for her final year.

In between her time for athletics, Nia also participated in school clubs. She was a member of both The Spanish Conversation Club and The GSA, or Gay Straight Alliance. Nia also likes to spend her free time, just being with her friends. In fact, she says that her

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