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Stevenson senior Grace Harper couldn’t stay away from basketball any longer.

A multisport athlete who has committed to play soccer at Washington University, Harper just played flag football for the first time. But she hadn’t played basketball for two years.

“I missed the sport,” she said. “I grew up in a very close-knit basketball team, so that’s where my love for the sport grew. I had such a strong bond and loved my coach from the start of playing basketball. It was easy for me to pick it up again.”

Playing varsity basketball for the first time, the 5-foot-7 Harper shook off some rust in the first few games of the season to make a more obvious impact during Stevenson’s North Suburban Conference opener against Zion-Benton on Monday. She reco

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