P lives, eats and breathes basketball! She’s the Athlete of the Year because she dedicates all her time to practicing & working out for it.
You decide who will be named Youth Athlete of the Year, featured in a 3BRAND ad in Sports Illustrated, and take home $25,000
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Receive Text UpdatesShe loves that it can be very physical. It can be very fast paced. It can be very competitive and there's a lot of things you can do to contribute to winning.
I would have to credit my parents with being my inspiration both on and off the court. My parents have always been there to cheer me on, support and encourage me to be the best that I can be, to always push through diversity, to never give up and to always get back up and dust myself off when I fall.
There's several moments, but the two that stick out for me the most is one when she fractured her elbow during a pre-season scrimmage and had to miss the first 5 games of her Sophomore season and didn't give up and still continued to show up to practices and games to cheer on her teammates and the second one was when she hit a 3 point buzzer beater in the Sectional Championship game to win the game!!
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