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A University of Virginia graduate who runs a program that trains athletes to be HIV/AIDS educators for youths in the District has been named a Rhodes scholar for 2010.

According to an announcement made Sunday, Tyler S. Spencer, who grew up in Virginia and lives in the District, is one of three people from the District and Virginia to win one of the awards, among the most prestigious in the academic world.

The other two are Jordan D. Anderson of Roanoke, a senior at Auburn University in Alabama, and Kira C. Allmann of Williamsburg, a senior at the College of William and Mary.

Spencer, who grew up in Staunton and graduated from U-Va. in 2008, said he hopes to return to the District after Oxford and improve and expand the Grassroot Project, which he founded and heads. Read source article...

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