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Florida State track and field athlete Erin Simmons a Rhodes Scholarship finalist
Florida State has another student-athlete on the cusp of winning one of the most prestigious honors -- a Rhodes Scholarship.
Track and field team member Erin Simmons will be in Birmingham, Ala. on Saturday competing as one of the 12 finalists from the southeast. She hopes to follow past Rhodes winners from FSU who student-athletes, Tampa's Garrett Johnson and Myron Rolle. She's just the fourth finalist from FSU (the other was Clearwater's Joe O'Shea, who like Johnson and Rolle, won).
Simmons, win or lose, offers the other face of Florida State athletics, one that is strikingly different from the one that has played out publicly in wake of NCAA violations for an academic misconduct scandal.
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