VYPE Player of the Game Alyssa LeBlanc’s complete game shutout, 7 strikeouts, 2 hits and late steal helped Katy beat Keller 1-0 in the UIL 6A state semifinal.

Charlize Wilson needed a break. Badly.

A tennis savant since four years old, Wilson found herself burnt out from the game entering the seventh grade. The pressures of an individual sport were becoming too much to handle. She was traveling often, always alone. She was playing high-level competition, any and all expectations clinging on to her tiny shoulders.

It was an intense, physically and emotionally draining environment with no one else to share the ups and downs.