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Jamaica’s ‘Reggae Girlz’ bring a Washington connection to the Women’s World Cup

Mireya Grey completed a final exam for a sociology class called “Murder” on Thursday.

She’ll play for the Jamaican national team in the Women’s World Cup against Italy on Friday morning.

It’s been an understandably surreal week and a half for the Seattle native and University of Washington junior forward, who was called upon to join the “Reggae Girlz” as an injury replacement June 3.

“That phone call was really funny, because it actually started with a text literally 30 seconds before,” Grey said in a phone interview from Reims, France, on Wednesday. “They said, ‘Hey, are you healthy?