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This book is dedicated to my mother, Joan Reel. She encouraged an active lifestyle growing up and exposed me to many different movement-based activities in my childhood. When she was not driving me to dance, swim- ming, or tennis, she was taking me to bookstores and the library to inspire a healthy dose of reading. She has been my biggest cheerleader, even during times I did not believe in myself. Thank you, Mom, for your life- long support and unconditional love. I will remain eternally grateful for you and Dad’s sacrifices to make my life meaningful and to encourage me to be the best I could be. As the poster read in my room growing up, “if you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you dream it, you can become it.”