She needed open-heart surgery, but wanted to help her team win a championship first

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Stevie Wisz, right, celebrates a home run with teammate Brianna Tautalafua on June 4. (CNN)Not many people would postpone lifesaving heart surgery. But Stevie Wisz did just that in order to fulfill a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: winning a college softball national championship. Wisz was diagnosed as an infant with aortic stenosis, a heart condition that causes the narrowing of the aortic valve and restricts blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta. She underwent open-heart surgeries at the ages of 9 and 15. In January, she was told that she required a third. However, Wisz had her sights set on bigger things. A senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wisz was determined

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