By: Isaac Evans Often when discussing high school athletes, and their commitments to college sports people tend to overlook the work it takes to play at a college level. In many ways people seem to focus on athletes with “raw talent” or “great genetics,” and think that is the very reason they’re playing at higher levels. But it may be surprising just how many highschool athletes have to seemingly start from scratch. This is not to say that athletes with so-called “raw talent” haven't put in a lot of work to play at higher levels. It just goes to show that not all athletes start out being particularly skilled in any given sport. For instance, Bear River softball just last season has had great success, with a win loss record of 27- 6. Putting them at top 3 in the state of Utah as of 2021. This being a result in part of amazing players, but as stated before, not all athlete’s skills in the sport come naturally. A good example of this would be the team’s catcher, Haylee Farnsworth, who is currently committed to the Southern Idaho university softball team. But the journey to playing at a college level did not necessarily come easy. Haylee has been training for 6 years all together, determined to compete in college, by playing on multiple teams along with playing on her highschool team up to this point. She has been working very hard “playing every weekend of every summer and practicing twice a week plus lessons, and playing every fall, and spring only taking off the month of december.” While this is a big part of being able to play in college, it isn't everything. The support she had from her parents driving her to all her games and practices and helping to get coaches for her definitely held a role in the process as well. This being said, Haylee also has things to work for when actually playing at southern Idaho that includes, “getting playing time as a freshman and simply improving in every game”. This alone is a great example of having to work very hard to play in college. But a few other girls on the team plan to play in college as well, Mccall Maxfield, a senior that plans to play softball for Snow college. Kynlei Nelson is another senior planning to play for USU eastern. With all this in consideration, it shows that not all college athletes are naturally talented, and can play in college without much training. It takes a lot of work and time to play at higher levels and these girls are great examples of that. If you would like to support these players, their next game will be on Tuesday, March 29, at home against Mountain Crest. Photo credit: Lexi Capener
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