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Each contest has previously had black winners, but the simultaneous wins make for a powerful symbol of how the pageants are evolving.

Piper Weiss was a competitive adolescent tennis player. In her memoir "You All Grow Up and Leave Me," she writes about her coach, who tried to kidnap another player. She talked to novelist Ivy Pochoda, a national squash champion, about the strange coach-player relationship.