Patience Locklear '26 Recruiting Profile

Hi! My whole life I have grown up with sports. It is one of the activities in my life that is a whole different world/perspective that I see. When I am playing sports it is a natural thing that occurs to me. Even if I am doing really good, I just want to be the best so I feel the need to keep improving and working hard to get there. After I get to that goal, there is a new goal set that I work even harder to get. Usually athletes have the dreams of being a professional sports player. I also have that dream, however, that usually goes away once you have to put the extra hours of effort outside of practice to get there. I am doing that right now. I train in the off season while doing volleyball for speed, agility, and plyometrics so when I get back to the season, I will not be behind. Lastly, things do happen. If an injury does acquire I plan to keep my grades up to the best of my academic ability so that I will still have a chance to get somewhere with my grades and knowledge. In the end, my goal is to do the best I can for however long I can so that everyone can see that they also can do what I did.