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Ute shooting star Sarah Porter is driven to make an impact, on and off the court

Sarah Porter's parents claim to have seen this coming. Listening to her argue with her brother, they just knew she someday would become a lawyer.

The passion that would drive the Utah women’s basketball player on the path toward law school took more time to emerge. Her views were shaped by an influential professor and an NFL quarterback, as she recognized how her own mixed-race makeup would motivate her.

The daughter of a Filipino mother and an African-American father witnessed her parents helping people and “just developed her own thing for social injustice,” Anthony Porter said.

Or kneels, to make a point.