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Bulgarian Yuliyana Valcheva signs with Division 1 University of Texas San Antonio

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After two years of Scottsbluff,  Western Nebraska Community College’s Yuliyana Valcheva signed with the University of Texas San Antonio, to continue her basketball playing at the Division 1 level, wnccathletics.com announced. "I associate playing in a Division I school as a big challenge and responsiobility", Yuliana said. "It means that I need to be prepared in all possible ways that it won’t be easy and that I will need to work really hard, but I am ready for it", the Bulgarian basketball player further says. Last summer, Valcheva was part of the Bulgarian National Basketball under-20 Team which won the European U20 Championship Division B in Kosovo.




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