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Clermont Northeastern’s Isabella Bosley batted .554 during her senior season, good for second in the SBAAC National Division. She is your Clermont Sun Athlete of the Week!
Q: Favorite professional or collegiate softball player?
A: Delanie Gourley and Aleshia Ocasio.
Q: Favorite food?
A: I enjoy Italian dishes.
Q: Advice for younger athletes who hope to have successful high school school careers like you did? What have you done to improve throughout your career?
A: My advice would be to make sure you love what you do! Find what your true passion is and then work at it every day! Also, it is okay to have a rest day, or two, or even three! You don’t want to get burnt out, and your body needs a break. Make sure to always have fun and laugh, but balance it out with grit and hard work. If you are ever struggling, go back to the basics. The amount of tee work I did, alone, is a huge factor in my improvement hitting-wise. Lastly, always have a good attitude. Not only in softball but in life too. There is always something for you to learn. Help out others who are struggling, and be a friend for someone to lean on.
Q: How were you able to hit for such a high batting average this season? What was the key to that?
A: I went to the early Saturday morning practices, even though they were early and on a Saturday. We did a lot of hitting work on Saturday. Also, I would do tee work by myself in the cages after games, good or bad, and work on what I needed the most. How did I know what I needed to work on? 1. You will get to a point in your hitting career where you will feel when you’re doing something wrong, and you have done enough drills to know how to correct it. 2. Designate someone to watch you while you’re hitting (thank you, papa, mom, dad, and grandma) and talk to them after every at-bat. Listen to what they tell you, and use their input during your tee work. Warming up well before games always helped me too, when I felt like I had hit enough into the bow net, I would hit one more bucket.
Q: Any future academic/softball plans you’d like to share?
A: I plan on attending Christ College to earn my bachelor’s degree and become a flight nurse. I would have loved to play softball but unfortunately, I will be getting surgery on my rotator cuff and this would put me out the first year. I plan on playing sand volleyball and some co-ed softball for fun.
Q: Who would you like to thank for helping you get to where you are today?
A: Thank you to both my parents and my grandparents. You guys drove me to countless games, practices, camps, and tournaments. You all always came to my games to support me, and you paid for me to play on so many select teams. Playing softball is not cheap! I had the opportunity to play in big tournaments in places like Michigan, Alabama, and South Carolina, which not only helped me grow as a softball player but also gave me so many good memories. I would 100 percent not be where I am today without all of you.
Q: Best memory as a Clermont Northeastern student athlete?
A: We have made so many good memories it is hard to classify just one as the best! Winning sectionals my sophomore year, beating East Clinton in volleyball (that was a great game), the huge fight when we played WT in little leagues, and all of the inside jokes made between us girls that I will hold on to for a very long time.
Q: What makes the Clermont Northeastern community so special in your eyes?
A: We are a very tight-knit community which is something that I love. I have made so many strong bonds with so many people that I hope will last forever. Since we are such a small school, most of the girls I play sports with are also in all of the same classes with me. This has helped us to grow even closer and has given me teammates/friends for life.
Q: When people in the Clermont Northeastern community look back on your senior class for softball, how do you hope they remember you girls? How have you girls laid the groundwork for future success of the program?
A: I hope they see a dedicated group of girls who know how to have fun! We put in hard work every day at practice, but we also balanced it out with funny jokes and good laughs. I wouldn’t trade my senior girls Sydney, Mya, Gracie, or Bri for anyone.
Q: How do you hope the Clermont Northeastern community remembers you individually?
A: I hope they remember me as someone who knew she always had room for improvement and always had a positive attitude. Unless I strike out; just kidding! I would try my best to give myself one minute of anger, and then let it go and be happy again. People would always say “be angry for three seconds and then let it go” but I always needed a little more than three seconds. Anyway, I hope my mindset is what is remembered about me.