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Eldest daughter of immigrants, Paulina Batiz stands proud after winning the Gravel Grinding age-group cycling national title in Lawrence. A single mother of two, at the time of this win Paulina was working two jobs to make ends meet, but still found the time to train and dominate a 100-mile race that her parents wouldn’t have been able to enter due to their immigration status.
Eldest daughter of immigrants, Paulina Batiz stands proud after winning the Gravel Grinding age-group cycling national title in Lawrence. A single mother of two, at the time of this win Paulina was working two jobs to make ends meet, but still found the time to train and dominate a 100-mile race that her parents wouldn’t have been able to enter due to their immigration status.