He was taken by the Yankees in the fourth round of the 2008 amateur draft out of Franklin High School in Tennessee.

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He was inspired in high school by NASA's first Hispanic astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz.

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One school at the center of the controversy is Franklin High.

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Unlike Phelps, who went professional as a teenager, Franklin has eschewed sponsorship offers in order to swim in college after she graduates from high school next year.

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The leader of the U.S. women's team is the soon-to-be-ubiquitous Missy Franklin, a 17-year-old from Colorado who could arrive back at high school for her senior year bedecked in as many as seven medals.

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Following her first meet since the Olympics, last week's contest against Highlands Ranch High School, so many rival swimmers asked to pose for photographs with Franklin that she missed the beginning of her team's post-meet cheer.

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