Jalise Smallwood Just Do It Analysis

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Jalise Smallwood moved from Dallas, Texas, to Broken Arrow with her father the summer before ninth grade. She is currently on the Varsity Girls Basketball team and hopes to get a scholarship to pursue the dentistry field and eventually become an orthodontist. Jalise enjoys going to any kind of game whether it is to support friends and family or to go just because it seems fun. She believes the Knicks will win the 2015-2016 NBA finals, because they have the best players in her opinion. She lives by Nike, “Just do it,” in all that she does. She is quite adventurous and finds a thrill in making up crazy things and doing them with her friends. Although living on the edge, bugs are where she draws the line. She stated that, “Anything crawling

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