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ducks,” she says. “Now every year I can’t wait until each season comes in.” Meggs also played school softball with her twin sister, Laney, right up until this year. As the years passed, she spent more and more time watching races at the local dirt tracks. It got to be a weekly thing. After seeing her younger brother, Alex, race and have some success, Meggs decided it was time for her to start a new hobby. She joined the same racing series as Alex, driving the Bandolero cars, designed as entry-level cars for drivers as young as 8 years old. “I picked #22 because that was my dad’s racing number,” she says. Her crew chief, Kendall Sellers of AK Performance Racing of Kannapolis, describes her start in racing: “I’ll never forget the competitive side she possessed from day one driving the Bandolero, although some of it may have been led on by a sibling rivalry against her younger brother, Alex.” As Meggs progressed through the Bandolero ranks, Sellers decided it was time for her to move up to the next level. “She made the move to full-bodied, late-model stock cars over this past winter,” Sellers says. “She had never driven one of those cars before — or even a car with a manual transmission!” It was then Meggs began competing at the Myrtle Beach Speedway, a place that Sellers and his team were