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News 12's Pat O'Keefe sat down with Cardinal Spellman senior Patricia McCarthy to talk about her transition from basketball to lacrosse star for her school and her desire to study broadcasting in college. 

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Scholar Athlete: Patricia McCarthy

With this week's scholar athlete sponsored by Eastchester Chrysler. Jeep Dodge Ram. Sports have always been a big part of life for Cardinal Spellman, Senior Patricia mccarthy, particularly basketball. But when the pandemic hit, putting a pause on indoor sports, Patricia went in search of a new outdoor sport. Basketball, didn't really have like a team. Like it was just like a clinic thing, but lacrosse did and I knew a couple of girls that were already on the team. So I figured like I may as well. And then I made some my closest friends like from the team from joining that year. Patricia says, learning a new sport was difficult at first, but she worked hard at it eventually becoming a part of a championship team as the pilots won the league title last year, having rallied together to get it done. I really loved how we won last year just because also like half the team got wiped out with COVID like the week before. So it was like an underdog story kind of even though she didn't play basketball, her senior year, Patricia didn't let her love of that sport dissipate as she still served as team manager. I feel like I was playing basketball for so long in like my middle school and stuff that I just had like so much knowledge about it and I, I didn't want it to go to like waste. Patricia has a 94 average and is a member of the National Honor Society. Also a member of the Emerald Society at Spelman. She'll attend Sunia Swe next year where she wants to study Broad in communications as well as business. She is also heavily involved in community service. Over the summer, I was a camp counselor here for like the L I T program for Spellman and I used to also teach like religious ed at my old parish and she's chasing perhaps another lacrosse championship over the weekend. Spellman advanced to the quarter finals with our scholar athlete in Edenwald, Pat o'keefe news. 12.

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