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Adjusting to college life has been a challenge for Holley Mangold, the Alter graduate who grabbed national headlines as a football lineman in high school.

And there's a logical reason.

"It was hard going from playing football with guys to being at an all-girls school," she said. "Mostly I just stay in and try to keep my nose out of trouble."

Her football-playing career over, the sister of New York Jets center Nick Mangold is a freshman on scholarship at Ursuline College, an NAIA school in the affluent Cleveland suburb of Pepper Pike.

Not the brightest stage, perhaps, for a young lady who in high school was profiled by newspapers such as the New York Times and Newsday, not to mention ESPN and the NFL Network.

Holley, who grew up in Centerville, is the only girl in Ohio to play in a football state title game.

"I'm actually kind of happy," she said. "I like flying under the radar, not having people know me. I just don't want to be overplayed when I haven't really done anything yet."

She did place sixth at the Junior World Olympic Weightlifting competition in Colombia last summer, an accomplishment heralded on holleymangold.net, a Web site created in 2006.

"I never really wanted any national press or anything," Holley said. "The Times was the first, and the only reason I did that was my brother said it would be a good idea. I try to listen to him. He's done pretty well."

Holley, majoring in sociology and theology, spends three or four hours in the gym most days with the goal of competing in the 2012 London Olympics as a weightlifter. She also is a track-and-field athlete, specializing in the shot put. Next month she competes in the indoor track nationals in Tennessee after qualifying in December with a heave of 43 feet, 9 inches. Then it's off to California for the powerlifting nationals.

And she has a documentary coming out. A film crew trailed her as an Alter senior and the only question is which network, Oxygen, Lifetime or MTV, will air it.

Holley said she talks to her brother often, but usually not about sports. She did find it interesting that Nick's former coach with the Jets, Eric Mangini, is now coaching the Browns.

"It's funny," she said. "I'm living in Cleveland and I would have liked to see (Nick) here. Instead, I got his coach."

When will it end?

The streak of Shardos (Versailles) winning player of the week in the American Mideast Conference stands at three after Joe earned the distinction for the second time in three weeks by averaging 34.5 points in two Walsh University basketball wins. Point guard Jeremy Shardo, Joe's brother/teammate, won it in between.

When Joe Shardo scored 45 points vs. Ohio Dominican, it was the second-highest single-game output in school history and tied for fourth all-time in the conference.

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