Don't mess with the latest player to choose UVa.

With the Charlottesville Daily Progress fleshing out this week's news that Stafford High's Merritt Hempe has verbally committed to Virginia for 2012, we now know that the 6-foot-3 forward is also a karate kid. And it's not something she just does for kicks, either - Hempe has had a black belt since middle school.

“It definitely helps with balance and discipline,” she said. “It really empowers you.”

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