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- She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald. Follow on XEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsKANSAS CITY, Mo.
- A few days before the NCAA women's volleyball national championship, Texas A&M opposite hitter Logan Lednicky posted an old family video on her Instagram account.
- Lednicky is maybe 5 or 6 years old in the video, wearing a maroon A&M shirt and doing cartwheels on the grass at Kyle Field, A&M's football stadium.
- "Say 'Gig 'Em, Aggies,'" her mom, Leigh Lednicky, implores her, and little Logan walks up to the camera, smiles and gives a thumbs-up. Under the video, Lednicky wrote that she is living in that little Aggie's "answered prayers."Her dad, Kyle, was a long snapper for the Texas A&M football team in the 1990s, and her mom worked in the football office.
- She chose Texas A&M because she always dreamed of being a fourth-generation Aggie, but that was only part of it.