Video: Student Athlete of the Week: Adallice Young, Booneville HS, Girls Basketball

BOONEVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) — In high school hoops, reaching 1,000 career points is quite the accomplishment.

One Booneville Lady Blue Devil is close to doubling that number.

Adallice Young is one of the leaders of the Lady Blue Devils.

After Booneville began the season 8-0, the team has lost their last two games to some tough competition.

Tuesday night, Young dropped 31 points in the loss to Tupelo, but Young and her team knows what it takes to bounce back.

Young has been a starter for the Lady Blue Devils since her freshman year.

The shooting guard also knows what it takes to win state championships. She’s been a big part of bringing two state titles back to her school.

“The hard work we’ve put in throughout the years we’ve won it from my freshmen year. From the coaches to have take over them not expecting going through struggling winning games and different stuff we’ve been through,” said Student Athlete Adallice Young.

Young has battled through a knee injury since this summer, playing through the pain and rehabbing to get back to full strength.

She also missed practice time last week with the flu.

“These last couple of weeks have been pretty rough having the flu not being able to practice. I’ve tried to overcome it, and I have overcome it with my teammates, and my coaches pushing me everyday to just push through and try to get stronger,” Young said.

“Been a noticeable difference, but she’s tried to play through it. It’s just hard. We’ve had to limit a lot of things she could do. She’s had to back off when she don’t won’t to, but we just feel like that her being sixty to seventy percent is so important to our team, and she does like wise,” said head coach Michael Smith.

Young’s success has carried this team the last three years, and it’s only going to get better with her teammates putting together the same effort.

“She’s an amazing teammate and an amazing role model. She pushed us as a positive in everything she does. Even if your having a bad day, she’s still pushing you to do your best,” junior teammate Elly Nash said.

“It’s been a good experience. We’ve had a lot of good times. Teammate wise we have fun no matter what. She keeps us going. She keeps us together,” adds teammate Shimia Williams.

“Everything she does is about the team. She sacrifices a lot individually for her own statistics, and you know what she could average or what she could do as an individual. She’s just about winning and I think what she has done with the help of her teammates is kind of changed the whole complexion of what basketball is here for girls at our school,” Smith adds.

The left-hander hasn’t decided on what her future holds following high school, but she wants everyone to remember her during her time at Booneville.

“I just want people to remember me as a girl that worked hard everyday and be the best she can be,” Young said.