Marlborough's Ball Is One Phenomenal Student

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"If someone asked her 'How are you?' she'd respond 'Phenomenal'," recalled her father, Robert Ball.

It almost overlooks the fact that she's a starting guard for the girls' basketball team that's playing for its seventh consecutive Southern Section championship tomorrow night against Irvine Woodbridge at Mater Dei High School.

"If it wasn't for her being able to do what she could do with the ball, there's a lot we wouldn't get done this year," [Trenton Jackson] said. "She sees the floor well and she's probably more poised than anybody under pressure."

[...] the 17-year-old Marlborough High School senior is sitting with a 4.1 grade point average, SAT score of 2140 and an academic scholarship to Columbia next fall.

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Marlborough's Ball Is One Phenomenal Student

At 2 years old, Taylor Ball's parents knew that she was something special based on a simple one-word greeting she'd give people.

"If someone asked her 'How are you?' she'd r...

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