Grade: Senior
Age: 17
Sports: Soccer, basketball
Claim to fame/honors: Record-setting goalkeeper earned first-team All-Ohio honors as senior and second team as junior; three-time All-District and All-Sectional honoree; two-time captain earned All-Southwestern Buckeye League honors all four years; 700 career saves are Greene County and Bellbrook school records, and rank 21st in state history; two-time team captain is committed to play at Wright State University; in basketball, earned All-Ohio, All-District and All-SWBL honors; SWBL Scholar Athlete carries 4.071 grade-point average; member of National Honor Society; active with Supportive Peers, Eagle Excellence, student government as senator and school newspaper as managing editor; twice a member of Homecoming court
Bet you didn’t know: I ran a mile a day for 100 straight days during COVID as a personal challenge.
Words I live by: Take every opportunity that you’re given because it could turn out to be your greatest blessing.
Toughest opponent: Waynesville
Biggest influence: My parents
Game-day rituals: Listening to, “Run This Town” by Jay-Z and Rihanna while I put on my gear. Having one minute of complete silence where I close my eyes and tell myself positive things I am going to do in the match. This one is a little bit cheesy, but fist bumping myself in my mirror.
What’s on my bedroom walls: Pictures of my family and friends, a Wright State pennant, and fortune cookie papers that had an inspiring fortune and meant something to me.
When I’m bored I like to: Lift weights, play with my dogs, hang out with friends or look through my camera roll at old memories
Favorite movie: The Hunger Games series. More specifically, Catching Fire.
Person who would play me in a movie: Jennifer Lawrence
Favorite TV show: One Tree Hill
Favorite musical artist: Taylor Swift
I can’t live without: My family and dogs
I can live without: The stench of my soccer gear
Event I’d like to attend: Indiana Fever women’s basketball game
Favorite book: Above the Line by Urban Meyer
Favorite home-cooked meal: Steak, mushrooms, potatoes and green beans
Favorite restaurant: Chipotle
Favorite smell: Freshly baked cookies.
Favorite cereal: Lucky Charms
Store where I’d like a shopping spree: Dick’s
Vegetable I won’t eat: Peas
I’d love to trade places for a day with: Alyssa Naeher
Whose mind would I like to read? My dogs Rudy and Buckeye
Place where I’d love to travel? Greece
Talent you’d like to have? Cooking and baking
Favorite school subject: English
Favorite team: Ohio State Buckeyes
Favorite athlete: Hope Solo
Favorite Olympic sport: Gymnastics
Favorite sports moment: Beating Beavercreek my sophomore season of high school soccer
Favorite junk food: Donuts
Best thing about soccer: The best thing about soccer is the feeling you get when you succeed. The thrill, rush of adrenaline and high energy in tough situations are what I love. I love the pressure soccer gives me because it always makes me push myself.
In 10 years, I hope to be: A journalist, mom and mini-dachshund owner. I would love to live on the east coast or upper west coast, but realistically I can’t see myself leaving the area where I grew up.
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