Magarity leaving behind a legacy

By Jimmy Robertson
 
Name pretty much any country in Europe, and she's visited it. Popular places like Germany and Spain and more obscure parts, such as Belarus.
 
Her travels have taken her to the Middle East, too. She has been to Saudi Arabia twice and took a trip to Turkey as well. She currently lives in the United States, her home for the past four-plus years.
 
All those places provide or have provided unique and memorable experiences for Regan Magarity, but probably nothing will compare to her venture this past summer when she eschewed a trip home to Sweden and spent a month touring around Australia and New Zealand with friend and Virginia Tech women's basketball teammate Erinn Brooks.
 
"It was really cool," Magarity said, smiling, as her voiced resonated with excitement. "Our old teammate, Vanessa Panousis, plays over there, and Tara Nahodil [another former teammate] is just living over there, so we visited with them and went to different places in Australia, and then we went to New Zealand. We went scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef, and that was really cool. We had a good summer. It was awesome."
 
Magarity loves to travel and hopes it becomes part of her future in some capacity, but for the time being, her travels are limited to places like Pittsburgh, Boston, Durham, and Atlanta, as the superstar and the rest of the Virginia Tech women's basketball team navigate through this big women's basketball nation known as the ACC, the most talented conference in women's basketball.
 
Then this bunch hopes to take another trip, going to a place that Tech hasn't visited in more than a decade – the NCAA Tournament.
 
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