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Extra Effort: Corinth Holders High School senior Alayna Gaddy
Corinth Holders High School senior Alayna Gaddy is at home on the diamond, but shines because of her ability to make others feel welcome.
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Corinth Holders High School senior Alayna Gaddy is at home on the diamond, but shines because of her ability to make others feel welcome.
Elena Gaddy feels at home with a glove, a ball and a bat in hand. There it is. Um, it's like a safe place for me. So just being out on the field with my friends, with my family, it's just, it really gives me peace. Whenever the world around me is just crazy. She'll get to be at home a little longer. She's playing college ball for Jacksonville. It's always been my goal. I've always wanted to play division one softball wherever it took me wherever God led me to be in Jacksonville. Just that felt like home. She's made quite a mark at her current home Corinth Holders high school in the classroom, for example, where she's part of the National Math Honor Society honors Math is a very challenging course. Um, and she never complained excessively. I'm not gonna say she never complained because she is a high school student. She wanted to know the why as well as get good grades. She's very involved in her community. She started the first girls Bible study at the school and her fate is something that just is evident in the way that she lives her life. What stands out in speaking to Gaddy, her coaches, her teachers is how much she cares. Softball and, and high school is one thing, but she's just a wonderful person. I would like everybody to get to know her. She's the type of person who's gonna try and connect with every single player on the team. She's so strong in herself that she wants to make sure that other people can feel that and that have that too. Like she wants to make sure other people can find that, you know, heart in them as well. And that's why Elena Gatti is this week's winner of the Tom Suter Extra Effort Award. Yeah.