A second trip to the Olympics turned up silver for Ogonna Nnamani. The Normal U–High Grad came home this week with the heavy hardware hanging around her neck. This is all part of a family's American Dream.

Ogonna's parents are from Nigeria and came to America because of the better educational opportunities here. Using those opportunities, Ogonna kept her grades up because that was the only way she could play sports and eventually become an Olympic medalist in volleyball.

"When you have the medal around your neck, it's very emotional as you think back to all the moments in high school and before high school working to get to this situation,' said Ogonna Nnamani.

Ogonna Nnamani is almost numb about having a silver medal in her hand.

"I'm pretty protective of it. My family and friends are like you better be careful with it, don't nick it. Someone already found a scratch on it already and I'm like ok," said Nnamani.

Getting the hardware home to Bloomington from Beijing turned out to be a bit more difficult.

" We had to go through Beijing security and they said ma'am you have to go back and you have to go through the scan. I said that's fine. I knew why and then I took my hand in my purse and they said Oh, where did you get that," said Uzo Nnamani.

While in Beijing, Ogonna became star struck, getting pictures with Kobe Bryant and the President of the United States. To think this only happened because her parents packed up from Nigeria and moved to Bloomington.

" It's an American Dream. All we wanted was get that education," said Uzo Nnamani.

"This is just a dream come true. I'm just very lucky to have all the opportunities I've had," said Ogonna.

Ogonna's passport looks more like a World Atlas. She's heading to Spain soon for a little R and R... before hooking up with a professional volleyball team in Europe. This is all in preparation to going for gold in 2012.