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- ↑ 2018 USA Indoor Track and Field Results USATF Retrieved March 2, 2018
- ↑ Dani Bunch Purdue University Track and Field profile Archived June 8, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Purdue University Retrieved 2 March 2018
