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Number 32 is Mayumi Pejo Spence. A 16-year-old student at Seton Catholic Central, May became an Olympian in the Flyweight division of Taekwondo. In the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Pejo was the youngest member of her team and was actually coached by a fellow Broome County resident, Sang Lee.

May competed and took third, good enough for a bronze medal and the high school junior became the first Olympic medalist in Broome County history. Pejo returned to the Saints and continued to compete in Taekwondo. Mayumi continued to dominate, taking the bronze medal at the 1989 World Championship and then U.S. Titles in Flyweight in both 1989 and again in 1991. Not to mention, Pejo won a gold medal at the 1988 Pan American Championships. So from 1988 to 1991, Mayumi Pejo was one of the most dominant mixed martial artists in the world. May suffered a knee injury prior to the 1992 Olympics and just barely missed out on qualifying for the second-straight Olympics.

Mayumi attended Ohio State University for college. Pejo is now a USA Taekwondo High-Performance Director in Colorado. Mayumi earned the 1988 Press and Sun-Bulletin Athlete of the Year honors and was the 1989 Athlete of the Year for Taekwondo awarded by the US Olympic Committee.

For being the first Olympic medalist in Broome County history, dominating flyweight Taekwondo from 1988 to 1991 and now for continuing to coach and teach the sport all while being a Seton Catholic Saint, Mayumi Pejo Spence comes in at 32 on Fox 40's Top 40 Most Impactful Sports Figures.

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