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Inspired Rachel Heck wins NCAA women's individual title at Grayhawk

How Heck blocked out noise to capture NCAA title

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – As she prepared to tee off in one of the biggest rounds of her life, Stanford’s Rachel Heck heard something that caught her attention. It was the name Victoria A. Pinckney, a 27-year-old Air Force captain, wife and mother who died eight years ago in Kyrgyzstan during Operation Enduring Freedom.

Every player in the field during Monday’s final round of the NCAA Women’s Championship represented a fallen U.S. serviceman or servicewoman.