HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — Jacy Harrelson is a two-way player for the Houston County Lady Bears softball team. She is one who gets it done in the circle as one of the team's star pitches.
She also competes well in the field and in the batter's box to the tune of 36 home runs in three seasons, including her team-leading nine this season.
“She has been a huge part of this program," Houston County High School Head Coach April Collins said. "She’s a huge leader and a part of our success with pitching and her at-bats and overall just a great leader for our team. Her teammates look up to her, she keeps up the cheers. Proud she is a Bear and to have coached her for the past four years."
Harrelson loves the game of softball and says it’s hard for her to choose between offense and defense as to what is her favorite. But when it comes to leadership, she thinks that’s the most important thing of all.
"Just being that person that anybody can lean on," Harrelson said. "Cause everybody has their hardships and hard times but being that person who can stick that hand out to say here I am to help you or let’s go to the cages and figure it out together is someone I aspire to be.
In the classroom, Harrelson sports a 4.0 GPA and is ranked in the top 30 of her 2023 class. Those numbers are just as important to her as .494 team-leading batting average and 77 strikeouts when she’s in the circle.
“I take the classroom very seriously and my class rank very seriously," Harrelson said. "I feel like that’s where it starts because softball will end one day but my academics will never end.”
And with priorities like this, that is why Jayce Harrelson is our athlete of the week!