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Animal Sciences grad, boxing champion excels in vet school
An animal sciences student and a 3-time national champion boxer. What comes to mind when you think of the two? Probably not much. Unless we’re talking about Shelby Harrison of course, a previous animal sciences student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and current Doctor of Veterinary Medicine candidate, who was a national boxing champion through the Illini Boxing Club.
Harrison has known she has wanted to go to the
