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Elite Conant student insists baton twirling is a sport

Competitive baton twirler Chase Dorn knows full well that some people don't think of her sport as, well, a sport. The 17-year-old from Elk Grove Village, recently named Illinois' Distinguished Young Woman for 2015, knows better. "It's a sport because it takes just as much agility and training and coordination and fitness as any sport -- as soccer, as basketball, as cheerleading, as dance," the Conant senior said.

 

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