Danielle Bonis '16 Recruiting Profile

I am currently enrolled at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Connecticut.  At a young age I always liked school as well as sports.  My elementary years were the starting point of my desire to always do well as I graduated with honors and graduated middle school with high honors, a presidential award, and being in the National Junior Honors Society in the eighth grade.  At the age of 6, I started playing softball and from that point I realized I loved playing the game.   After playing on a rec league for a couple of years I was asked to catch and the position came very easy to me.  At the age of 8, I began going to Bobby Valentine Sports Academy and worked with a personal trainer to further my skills as a catcher and also working on batting and fielding.  I continued playing on a rec league until I was asked to play on a 14U travel team, the Greenwich Warriors.  While on the team, I was on of the team captains which was a good experience for me.  From this I found I had leadership skills and along with the other captain, we did a great job in making the team play together as one.  My freshman year of high school I was the only freshman selected to the Varsity team and  I have been on Varsity every year since then.  Outside of school and sports I attend Saint Matthew Church and have participated in the youth choir since the third grade.  Over the past few years I also helped out at our Church with the Bible Camp as a music counselor over the summer.  During the summer, I have also helped those who run the Religious Education prepare for the next session of classes to begin and I have been a substitute catechist and taught classes.  In addition, since my Freshman year, I have played soccer for Brien McMahon as a goalie and been on Varsity since my sophomore year.