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Americans establish Olympic camp for Iraqi girls
    
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08/25/2008
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By BETH RUCKER
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<p>During the next summer Olympic Games in 2012, American Sarah Hillyer hopes to be rooting for the Iraqi women's basketball team.
<p>That's because Hillyer, a former collegiate player at Virginia Tech now working on a doctorate in sport sociology at Tennessee, helped organize the first Iraqi women's Olympic basketball training camp.
<p>The goal is to build not only a team but also individuals in a country engulfed in war since 2003.
<p>Hillyer is the women's sports coordinator for Global Sports Partners' Sport 4 Peace, which works to develop sports programs in countries where children have no other access to them.
<p>In July, she and five other former collegiate women's basketball players spent 10 days in Iraq, hosting the camp for 60 girls ages 12 to 14.
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