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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A woman who was gang-raped by football players while unconscious in a dorm room at Vanderbilt University has now testified for a fourth time in court. Cory Batey was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday after a searing 11-minute statement by the victim, who was a neuroscience and economics major when she was attacked. These are her words, as transcribed by The Associated Press.Thank you.Its hard for me to stand here on display and speak to you today about the impact this has had on my life. The thought of sharing any more of myself that hasnt already been taken from me seems unbearable, and it goes against every instinct that I have.I was fearful of giving a victim impact statement at all because I know that after three years and everything that has happened, I can never do it justice, and Im scared of that failure. It will never be possible for anyone to put into words how this has affected me. And you will never understand what this has done to me if you arent standing in my shoes. The humiliation, the pain, the isolation, being reduced to nothing but a piece of flesh right before your eyes -- it does something to you that is truly impossible to describe.I also know that its hard to encapsulate the impact this has had because it is still ongoing. The attack on me didnt end that day, because I re-live it in every proceeding, and experience additional attacks every time I am in court.When I let myself think of this, I become so angry and feel so powerless, even today, that speaking coherently about it at all is a challenge. But after what was done to me that night and three years of abuse at the hands of the defendant, I felt I had to come here and ask the court to consider the impact of his choices and his actions.On June 22 of 2013, I was a happy, hard-working Vanderbilt student looking forward to my future. I was 21 years old. Ive seen with my own eyes what I was when Mr. Batey was done with me -- a piece of trash, face down in a hallway covered in his urine and palm prints. A photograph he took himself.There are no words to describe the horror of the images from that night and how it feels to watch yourself be dehumanized.A detective showed me some of those photos and videos that you and 42 jurors have now seen, so many times. And what I saw was image after image of my genitalia, covering the entire frame on the screen. These stark, alien-looking fingers all over the flesh were moving from frame to frame, with multiple hands reaching in. Videos played, and I heard the laughing. I heard the degrading, taunting voices.My memory of the images I was shown then starts to flash in and out. The realization of all the ways that they raped me, that people can see these close-up images of my body, the unknown of what was done to me in those 30 minutes that wasnt recorded -- it was incomprehensible. I wanted to run away and never stop running.At one point I saw what I first thought was a dead womans face. I was suddenly overwhelmed by my memory of a family members corpse, and then I realized that its me. They had taken a picture of my face during the rape. I was lifeless and my face was covered in something shiny. I didnt recognize myself.Something permanent snapped that day. I felt myself detach from my body. Now, I feel like Im walking around in the shell of someone else. A part of me went numb, a sense of being a whole person with hopes and dreams about whats possible in the world was now gone.I felt my belief that people are inherently good turn into some cruel joke, in an instant. I even blamed myself for believing that people werent capable of something like this, and that the world is a better place than it is, when the truth was that I did nothing wrong.No one should ever have to experience what I have. Mr. Batey is to blame for his actions and his choices.I was 21 years old when this happened. Im 24 today. Since the horror of that night, all I have wanted is for this to be behind me, to be left alone and to try and live my life in peace. But the process to get justice has been a never-ending, constant misery that has twisted itself so into my life that I cant even remember what it was like in a time when this wasnt happening.Everything the defendant has done in this case and the media circus surrounding it have been a continuous disruption, repeatedly dragging me back every single step I try to take forward. I can only feel that the defendant has intentionally wanted this to be as tortuous for me as possible.Part of the impact this has had and will continue to have on my life is the media scrutiny, invited by Mr. Bateys own high-profile status and amplified by his own television interviews. What happened to me that night has been compounded by the live-streaming, tweeting, and international dissemination of every detail of how I was degraded and humiliated for all posterity. In this age of technology, anyone I ever meet in my personal or professional life can learn that I am a rape victim and the details of the case before Ive even fully introduced myself to them. There is no way for me to even know if any given person I interact with has done so. This is something I now have to expect for the rest of my life.It is also hard for me to push aside all of the attempts by the defendant to misrepresent himself and disparage my character, because I could stand here for hours talking about the impact of all the lies Ive had to sit in this courtroom and listen to. I remember each and every one of them, and every time it hurt me. It made me angry because I didnt have a voice and I couldnt say anything. I shouldnt even have to defend myself, and even if I could, everything I share about myself here is repeated by the national media. It got so bad that for the last two trials, I couldnt even bear to sit in here and listen to it.Part of me does want to stand here for hours and hours and go through every single thing Mr. Batey has done throughout this case. But the truth is that the focus never should have been on me. I was unconscious. I was driven and carried to the crime scene. The defendant was a complete stranger.Again, the attack on me didnt end that day, because I re-live it in every proceeding and am constantly experiencing additional attacks. The fact that I even had to breathe the same air as the men who did this to me, ever again, to me is unthinkable. But I have endured all of this because the details of the rape are so horrific, and there is so much irrefutable evidence -- I knew that they had to be stopped and held accountable.This is a serious, violent crime and it must receive the enhanced punishment it deserves. Any victim should know that they would have justice if they went through the process.I am asking that Mr. Batey receive the maximum sentence of 25 years under the law, to set the amount of time that he will not be able to do this to another victim, to deter others like him, and based on the particularly egregious nature of the rape itself.He did not commit just one act of violence against me. There were five acts of sexual assault and rape committed by him and him alone, and there were seven acts of violence he was found guilty of committing against me. But sexual assault was not where the attack ended. Mr. Batey continued to abuse and degrade me, urinating on my face while uttering horrific racial hate speech that suggested I deserved what he was doing to me because of the color of my skin. He didnt even know who I was.I also ask for the maximum sentence of 25 years as is appropriate for the impact this has had and will continue to have on me every day for the rest of my life. Ed Oliver Jersey . Here are his mid-season NBA awards. MVP: (KEVIN DURANT-Thunder) - Has been sensational this season and more importantly, the most consistent player in the league. Considering that his team has been without star guard Russell Westbrook and with the free agent departure of sharpshooter Kevin Martin, hes had to carry the majority of the load to not only keep his team afloat but more importantly, at an elite level. 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EVIAN, France -- Its a little known fact that prior to this summers Rio Olympics one nation already had two gold medalists in its professional golfing ranks. That country was Russia, the athletes were tennis star Yevgeny Kafelnikov and gymnast Vera Shimanskaya, and neither of them was in Rio.But Maria Verchenova was.The 30-year-old from Moscow may not be Russias most famous professional golfer, but she is comfortably the nations best player of the game and, having set the Olympic course record (and posted a hole-in-one) in the process of finishing tied for 16th, shes rubber stamped that reputation.There was also the little matter of her hat and her dresses: They were flamboyant. They made an impression on sports biggest stage, and these details matter.Golfers who are not golfers? Big hats and retro dresses? It seems to be a rule in Russian golf that the curiosities are always integral, rather than incidental, to the tale.The Evian Championship, the fifth and final major in the LPGA season, takes place this week in the French spa town of Evians-les-Bains on the waters of Lake Leman overlooked by the snow-peaked mountains of the Alps.As a venue it reeks of old world French glamour, of the resorts which played host to Europes aristocrats and mega-rich in the early decades of the 20th century. It was also the very destinations the Russian elite escaped to following the Revolution, where they discovered golf and created the first Russian club, in Cannes during the 1920s.Nearly 100 years later, ahead of her fourth appearance in the event, Verchenova reflects on a month that has changed her profile around the world. And when she talks about the outfits which captured the attention of the world, she does so with a nod to the past.I think my dresses are very elegant, she says. Ive always liked it that in the early days of ladies golf they wore elegant dresses, but now it is more like sportswear. I wanted to return to those old styles. The hat is more sensible. Ive been wearing for a few years now, to protect myself from the sun.Through 54 holes in Rio, the outfits garnered more attention than her scores, a little like her career in microcosm. Its fair to say that she is best known for her magazine shoots. But just as her 13 top-20 finishes on the Ladies European Tour prove, she can play the game. So did her final round in Rio -- a superb 9-under 62 which drew attention to her golf after the cameras and commentators had focused on the hat most of the week.The highlight was her 6-iron at the 155-yard par-3 fourth (her 13th hole of the day) which dropped for a hole-in-one, not that she knew it.It was quite funny, she laughs. You can see on TV that Im not quite sure. There werent many people behind the green, but they were cheering and so I was asking my caddie What happened? What happened? and he was asking me the same question. I only found out for sure when I overheard the scorers radio say Verchenova 8-under. It was an amazing moment.On sports greatest stage she had played the round of her life.It really was one of those days. I was hitting it well all week, but the tactics were wrong. The greens were hard and we were hitting the ball low into them and running through the back. So we talked about it, decided to hit higher approaches, and it worked.That week in Rio was a long way from her introduction to the game on a vacation with her father in the Czech Republic at age 12. She had dreamed of becoming a ballerina, swayed by the beauty of the dancing, but was now taken by the beauty of golf courses and honed her game at Mooscow Country Club.ddddddddddddThe Moscow course is a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design which was first mooted in the 1970s by the American business tycoon Armand Hammer. The son of a Russian emigre, he dreamed that golf could draw Russia back into the international community. Leonid Brezhnev, then general secretary of the Soviet Union, thought otherwise. Moscow had to wait until 1993 for it to be built.For Verchenova, the course, which trails through thick, dacha-dotted forest in the suburb of Nakhabino, was where she fostered her dreams and where more recently she plays golf with Yevgeny Kafelnikov, two-time tennis Grand Slam winner and the tennis gold medalist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.At the same Sydney Games, Vera Shimanskaya claimed gold in rhythmic gymnastics. Today both athletes are professional golfers, but, with a combined count of zero cuts made in 35 appearances on major tours, there is a gulf in class between themselves and Verchenova.What they do all share is the status of Olympians, something Verchenova cherishes personally and recognizes the importance of for her sport.The whole week was a buzz, she says. I stayed in the Olympic village because I wanted to feel the excitement. Seeing the other athletes going to their event in the morning was so unusual and exciting, so different from any other tournament.For me it was something else. I was so proud to be the only Russian representative and to know the whole country was supporting me was amazing.The Olympics is in our blood. Ever since I was little every two years, winter or summer, we all watch the Games and support our players, it is very prestigious to represent Russia.The final round drama was picked up by Russian broadcasters and prompted a welcoming party on her return.It was such a long journey home, we were stuck in Madrid six hours, but when we arrived the people were still standing there at the airport. A group of junior golfers from Moscow CC had waited six hours for me. They were just young kids, but they gave me flowers as congratulations.As a youngster herself, Verchenova had limited assistance outside her family. Not only was there little in the way of structure for the still fledgling game, but it very definitely remains a pastime for the elite in Russia. The recently opened Tseleevo Golf and Polo Club, peppered with fake Greek temples and boasting a helicopter park, is rumored to have (and need) less than 20 members. Even if that is not true, the fact many believe it could easily be is instructive in itself.It would have been nice to have support like other nations and to have a role model, says Verchenova, but I want to do my best to be a pioneer. I did a lot of speaking about golf before the Games, lots of photo shoots, TV and interviews. I wanted to promote Russian golf. But who knows if they will put money in?Ahead of this weeks challenge she is keen.Rio has given me confidence. It shows what I can do. I know it is only one round, but then I remember how much work I put into this. Ive worked hard with my coach, my gym coach, my psychologist. The 62 was the result of that hard work. Hopefully it will push me on. I also won the European qualifying for Evian back in May, that was another boost.At the end of the year she will head to qualifying school, hoping to write the latest chapter in the quirky story of Russian golf -- the one about the Russian girl in the big hat winning a card to play on the LPGA. [url=http://www.authenti