"BECOME SOMEBODY" by Ashley Alonso

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Ashley Alonso

Sports: Basketball

District: Brownsville ISD

High School: Lopez H. S.

Class: 2021

How did you choose your sport?

I feel as if basketball choose me, i’ve played all sports my whole life but basketball just spoke to me it made me want to be disciplined as a person and have the mentality to become somebody. -Ashley Alonso

Has there been a moment when you doubted whether or not you could continue as a student-athlete? What was that moment like?

A time when i felt like i couldn’t continue as a student athlete was when my mom had breast cancer. I felt guilty for not paying as much attention to her since i was always studying and playing basketball, we talked about it and she told me to “grind it out for her” and that’s what i did. -Ashley Alonso

As a HS athlete, did you ever doubt your athleticism?

Many times… I doubted my athleticism my freshmen year of highschool. As much as i would practice and give it my all in the court I never got chosen to play in varsity. So, i started practicing whenever and however i could; during lunch, before practice, after practice stay and shoot. After that go to the park and run 5 on 5s at Oliveira Park and after that go home and jump rope. It was an everyday thing, I was determined.-Ashley Alonso

Can you share the biggest and most important advice you have received by a coach or teacher?

Montes; my coach once told me "keep trying, keep going, keep going till you can’t and when you can’t go anymore keep going even more. Hard work can beat talent “

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We understand that you transferred schools and had high hopes of making the Varsity Team as a Jr. Talk to us about that experience.

My waiver got denied but my family decided to appeal it. I’m from Brownsville Tx; we all made a drive to Austin Tx for the appeal. I was nervous, anxious, a part of me was scared of going in, i was scared of hearing no. We all went into the room I took a seat in-front of everyone and presented myself and my situation, as they all proceeded to nod the main person in the room asked for everyone to raise their hand up so i could be eligible to play varsity my Jr year. No one raised their hand. I wanted to cry, i was angry, upset. I didn’t understand how they could’ve said no? i paid the fee, drove 6 hours for a 8 minute meeting. My coach, my mother

and i thanked everyone for their time and i just started bursting out in tears. My Coach assured me i was still okay and i still had time to do what i had to do but that meant i had no time to waste. I knew i had to grind harder than ever. I was angry, i was pent up with anger because all i wanted to do was play in varsity so I can get scouts to look at me. I was just glad we didn’t go down without a fight. We did all we could on our end, my job was just to grind and keep on balling.-Ashley Alonso

embrace-doubt.com 10/18/2023