Brooke Davis has become a rather familiar name in the Greenbrier East sports world over the last couple of years.
Davis, a senior who is set to graduate in just a few short weeks, has some unfinished sports business to take care of before she crosses the state fairgrounds stage to end her career.
Objective number one?
Beating St. Albans in the regional finals this week and advancing to the state softball tournament.
When Davis starred for the Lady Spartan basketball team, she was scrappy, skilled and tough. In softball, she plays the exact same way, just in a different manner. But it is not like she does not know that. In fact, she brought it up all on her own and admitted she is her biggest critic.
“I would say my scrappiness on the basketball court goes onto the softball field. I just get really frustrated with myself especially when I make errors on the softball field and know that I have to do better but I wouldn’t really call it scrappiness. I just have the same attitude as I would on the basketball court like missing a shot or anything like that,” Davis said.
And to beat the Red Dragons on the field this week, Davis knows it will take a total focused and team effort.
“What has to happen for us to beat Saint Albans is we have to keep our heads high and we got to give it 110 percent no matter what,” Davis exclaimed.
“And we have to hit and need to act like a team,” she continued.
Even though losing is not an option to the incredibly competitive senior, Davis admits she has thought about what it will be like when she is officially done as a playing member of the Spartans, and recalls some of her fondest memories that will last a lifetime.
“I have thought about how it would feel once I played my last game as a Spartan. It’s going to be really upsetting knowing that I won’t be able to play on this softball field anymore but I have better things coming,” she said.
“Definitely beating Beckley in basketball and softball just because they are our biggest rival,” Davis said when asked about the memories she will have.
“I’ve made some great friends during these sports and I’ll never for the time Aubrey Glover took Aaron’s card to go get us hot chocolate from McDonald’s and he thought she stole his card. And my first dinger of course can’t forget that,” she stated.
Wanting to be remembered for hard work, Davis stressed that is her most wished for memory.
“I just want to be remembered as a hard worker and accomplishing things that I always want to accomplish and that’s only because of all the hard work I have put in to it, she stressed.
Davis will continue a basketball career next year when she heads to Dabney S. Lancaster next year. She plans to be a registered nurse.
The Spartans and St. Albans open up a best-of-three game series this Tuesday night. The series winner will advance to the state tournament.
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