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Illinois Softball Players Meet President Obama

By on August 18, 2014 blog Print

For the members of the Glenview Titans Fastpitch Association, a trip to a softball competition in Kansas City, Missouri took a turn for the presidential.

While out to dinner during the USSSA World Series, the members of the Glenview Titans girls softball team - which includes seven students at Glenbrook South - found themselves face-to-face with United States President Barack Obama.

Titans head coach Jerry Stavins said the team was enjoying dinner when the Secret Service closed down the Arthur Bryant diner so no one could enter or leave the restaurant. Though the team had no idea the President was due in town, they were fatefully seated in the booth next to the President and the four Missouri residents he dined with.

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