
Meet the 63-year-old college athlete with a killer golf swing
CNN
Debbie Blount is a 63-year-old sophomore at Reinhardt University and a beloved member of the women's golf team. As one of the oldest student athletes in the US, her friends call her "Ancient Eagle," after Reinhardt's mascot.
She enjoys her history classes but struggles with statistics, a subject she calls the "bane of [her] existence." She just declared a major -- interdisciplinary studies -- and spends much of her time off-campus studying. And when class runs over, she scrambles to switch shoes, grab her golf bag and head to the green to join her teammates in women's golf -- her favorite part of the day.
But just one year earlier, she had been fretting that she wouldn't fit in among classmates some 40 years younger.
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