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she is born is Kansas
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she moves to San Pedro California where she will spend the rest of her childhood at
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she took her first ever ballet class and really enjoyed it a lot
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after 3 months of ballet she was on pointe
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after only a couple months of dancing she got the lead role of Clara in the nutcracker
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she won in the field of best ballet dancer
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she won again best ballet dancer at the age of 15
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she was the first black women to receive a scholar ship at the abt
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right after finishing high school she started attending the american ballet theater
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she was chosen to compete for princess grace at the abt
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she was chosen to compete for the Erik Bruhn award at the abt
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ABT promoted Misty to a soloist in 2007. She is renowned for being the third African American soloist with ABT ever and is the first in over 20 years
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she receives a award for being such a talented young dancer
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she performed with prince on his welcome to america tour
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She is inducted into the Boys and Girls Club National Hall of Fame.
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she played her first lead role at the abt as the fire bird
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she received a very devastating injury where she had 6 stress fractures in her tailbone
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misty creates a ad for bloch and it becomes public
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she releases her first autobiography
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Misty Copeland becomes the lead for the new "I Will What I Want" campaign for Under Armour
