Wright On: Mary Economy’s daily challenge

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We read and hear and see too much about highly recruited high school athletes these days.

We want them all to be Marcus Mariota, but those kind don’t come in bunches, they are exceptions, and it’s probably fair to even call them extreme exceptions.

Trouble is, for the one-sport athlete with a scholarship to Big State U, the future may be determined by a few teammates who can block, tackle, run, throw or catch a little better.

That’s not going to happen to Mary Economy, a Waiakea senior who competed for her school’s swim and water polo teams while knocking out a 4.0 grade point average. She started down this road early, as a ninth grader when she…