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11-Year-Old Donates $200 Prize

Karate student wants to keep her sisters and their friends safe at college

An 11-year-old Strongsville karate student's generous gesture just might keep some local girls safer at college this year.

Molly Largent, who has been a student at International Karate Centers since age 4 and is now a black belt and international champion, won a prize from the school for selling so many ducks for the Strongsville Rotary's Duck Race June 1.

The prize? A $200 pizza party for 20 people.

But instead, Molly asked Jeff Ellis, owner of International Karate Centers, if she could use the money for a special "Don't Be a Victim" self-defense workshop at the school for her older sisters — triplets who graduated from Strongsville High Schoool this year — and their friends who were going off to college.

About 20 girls attended, learning simple but effective skills in self-defense, Ellis said.

"It was a very unselfish act and a very mature one — thinking of ways to help her sisters instead of having fun with her friends," Ellis said. 



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