Edgewood Academy’s Lindsey Brown had quite the weekend playing volleyball.
Brown, who plays for the Capital City Juniors AAU team that is based out of Montgomery, traveled to Florida for a massive tournament. The 17U team that she plays on went 13-0 across four days and claimed the National Championship.
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