By Hayden Swope

Brylie Laake, a basketball athlete from Campus High School, was chosen as the Campus School District Athlete of the Month.

“I feel extremely honored to be one of the athletes chosen,” Laake said.

After a season-ending injury, Laake worked day and night to regain her skills and strength again for her final year.

“My junior year basketball season was cut short due to breaking my fibula bone,” Laake said. “Once I got released for physical activities, I started going to the gym almost every day during the summer.”

While accomplishing goals of her own, Laake also hopes to continue to grow together as a team.

“The main thing I have been wanting to improve is my ball handling skills,” Laake said. “As for this season, I really want to focus on unity and our team goals and bonding. When it comes to our postseason, our team’s main goal is to make it to state, although I would be just as happy to make it to substate.”

Laake’s favorite moment of her basketball career happened with her favorite people at a camp over the offseason. 

“My favorite basketball memory by far is when we traveled to Emporia for summer basketball camp,” Laake said. “We had an incredible time connecting as a team, not just on, but off the court as well. One of the nights Coach T took us to get tortillas to do the trending tortilla challenge, which definitely had to be my favorite part.”

After high school, Laake hopes to take basketball to the next level.

“My future plans are to further my basketball career and get my Esthetician licensing,” Laake said.