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OU softball: Sydney Romero chasing Olympic dream even if it wasn't how she had planned

NORMAN — Sydney Romero remembers watching softball during the Olympics back in 2008.

She remembers dreaming, too.

She was a kid living in Southern California then, but she pictured herself playing in the Games one day. Making plays. Getting hits. Maybe even climbing onto the medal stand with that USA emblazoned across the front of her jersey.

Romero, who is about to start her senior season at Oklahoma, will have a chance to start chasing her Olympic dream this summer — but it is a dream revised.

Mexico will be on her jersey.

"It was a really cool opportunity," she said of being invited to try out for the Mexican national team along with older sister, Sierra.