Anastasia Morrison '18 Recruiting Profile

Playing collegiate softball would be a great honour and privilege. It would give me the opportunity to try and achieve the highest level of softball, a sport that I have loved for the past decade. It not only gives me privilege but also pride to say that I am an Indigenous athlete trying to reach the ultimate goal: a university degree; something that most Indigenous children are deprived of because of financial and educational limitations. It is with great smile on my face that I can say that I have participated in the North American Indigenous games twice in the past three years with one, if not the best, softball experience that my young life has offered me. These games not only show how active the Indigenous community is but also how it inspires the future generations of athletes that come from the reservations, both small and big, in the United States and in Canada. A little anecdote to further my love for my heritage:

I met a girl this past summer that was on our younger softball team and she told me that she has been coming to these games since she was five years old, she's 15 almost 16 now, because her mother and grandmother were involved in the traditional sports, such as canoeing and archery. She showed me a picture of her on top of her mothers shoulders as they walked into the opening ceremonies.