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  • Why I became a nun, by former tennis star Andrea Jaeger (Essential, moving and inspirational story)

    04/19/2008 3:26:43 PM PDT · by Stoat · 65 replies · 816+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 19, 2008 | PETER ROBERTSON
    Why I became a nun, by former tennis star Andrea JaegerBy PETER ROBERTSON - More by this author » Last updated at 21:27pm on 19th April 2008  She was a troubled young girl ... and the finest tennis player of her generation.  At the age of 14, with her teeth still in braces and her hair in Brady Bunch pigtails, Andrea Jaeger dominated the courts, frightened of no one and confident in a talent that outstripped even Chris Evert and Billie Jean King. By the age of 16 she was No 2 in the world yet famously appeared to...
  • Former tennis star focuses on serving God, helping kids (Andrea Jaeger)

    03/09/2007 10:04:54 AM PST · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 4 replies · 355+ views
    StarTribune ^ | 3/9/07 | Eddi Pells/AP
    The waist-length pigtails are gone, replaced by a layer of dusty blonde hair so short it doesn't need a brush. Those '80s tennis skirts are history, too. In their place, a black nun's habit belted with a band of white rope that her dogs like to chew. One constant: Sister Andrea Jaeger isn't quite who everyone might think she is. Even when she was a teenage tennis star — all backhands and braces — she knew she wouldn't last long in that world, though hers was not a typical tale of burnout or overbearing parents. She succumbed to an injury...