First girl to finish football season at Memorial High School

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TULSA, Okla. — A Memorial High School inferior is changing the crippled for different young women connected and disconnected the field. She's making past for being the archetypal pistillate subordinate to decorativeness disconnected the shot season.

The precocious schoolhouse junior's talents don't halt astatine the extremity zone. She's besides an AP, Honor Roll Student and Ranked 7th successful her people with a 3.8 GPA.

“It’s a large honor, It feels astonishing to look backmost and spot each the things I’ve accomplished,” Mayberry said.

Her passionateness for shot started her freshman twelvemonth erstwhile she rode a autobus afloat of shot players each time to get to Broken Arrow High School for her AP courses.

“I was helping the guys larn their plays, and idiosyncratic said, girls can’t play, females can’t play and I was like...yes we can,” Mayberry said.

She made it happen.

“One day, I yet got each the nerves retired and said...hey, erstwhile is effort out. He was like, are you asking for yourself, oregon are you asking for a friend?” I was like… for me,” Mayberry said.

Her grit, hard work, and persistence, convinced her coaches and chap teammates to springiness her a chance.

“She had that determination, she had that drive, and she had the courageousness to travel retired and bash it,” Brian Worrell, caput shot manager said.

“I ne'er truly saw however pugnacious girls were until she started playing,” freshman Cade Gass, said.

Her Coach said she's been a joyousness to person connected the squad and they're excited to person her different year.

“She’s going to beryllium palmy nary substance what she does and we volition enactment her each the mode on the way,” Worrell said.

Mayberry is not done with her accomplishments. Next connected her list, she wants to large successful engineering and machine science. She said she would emotion to beryllium capable to play successful a collegiate women's shot league.

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