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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </b>April 12, 2016<br>
Contact: Laura Nagel, 401-865-1245<br>
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Providence's Thomas O’Neill To Represent US At Deaflympics </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span><b>O’Neill will compete for the US at the Deaflympics in Turkey in July. </b>
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</span></b><b>PROVIDENCE, R.I. – </b><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Providence
College cross country/track sophomore Thomas O’Neill (Middletown, N.Y.) was invited to compete for the USA Deaf Sports Federation on July 18-30, 2017 at the 23<sup>rd</sup> Summer Deaflympics in Samsun, Turkey.
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O’Neill will also spend a week training with the national team in June in Washington, D.C.<br>
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During the 2015 cross country season, O’Neill helped the Friars to a third-place finish at the BIG EAST Championships, finishing 15<sup>th</sup> to earn All-BIG EAST honors. He has also earned BIG EAST Athlete of the Week honors twice in his career at Providence
and has run 8:29.24 for the 3,000 meters and 14:24.91 for the 5,000 meters on the track.<br>
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Link to release by Jeremy Carino <a href="http://www.app.com/story/sports/college/2016/04/12/college-corner-oneill-represent-us-deaflympics/82887008/ ">
here</a>.<br>
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- Go Friars - <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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