By Hayden Swope

Brecken Pearson of Canton-Galva knows that hard work is the only answer to being successful in multiple sports. Involved in four different sports during the year, Pearson is the Multisports Athlete of the Month.

“It’s a great honor to be selected,” Pearson said. “Being from a small school, I compete against and play with a lot of great multisport athletes.”

Pearson spent her offseason preparing with all of her teammates and coaches, creating relationships and prepping for the upcoming seasons.  

“I think a lot of people would agree with me that when preparing for any sort of sport you have to put in time in the weight room during the summer,” Pearson said. “During the summer we practice every sport almost every day. This helps create that special bond with all your teammates and coaches as well.”

With this being her senior year, Pearson knew she wanted to make it special. Pearson set goals for every sport, and has even gotten to check some of them off the list. 

“I had a couple goals set this year for all sports,” Pearson said. “Volleyball I wanted to advance further in substate and end the season with a winning record. I wanted to get top three in our league for cheer. In the previous year we had gotten runner up at the state cheer competition and this year we wanted to go after that state title. With only four girls we weren’t sure that was going to be possible but we gave it our best and ended up winning. In basketball my only goal was to have a winning record but then it turned into making it to state halfway through the season. For softball I’m hoping we win all of our regular season games and make a state appearance.”