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Giving It Everything She’s Got Natural leader gets top scholar-athlete award Lindsay Pattison grew up on 100 acres of fields and forest. She spent hours walking along a tributary of the Bozenkill River, hiking with her brother to the waterfall, to the bog, learning about the animals who shared the bountiful wilderness—the deer and bear, the birds and coyotes. This pastoral environment gave her a set of enduring passions: love of the outdoors and physical activity, love of science and the natural world. Those aspects of Lindsay’s character came together this spring when she was named the top basketball scholar-athlete in the Central Hudson Valley League. She was selected from top scholar-athletes representing nine Section II schools. In her acceptance speech, Lindsay thanked her coach, Tony Holston. “There have been many lessons that Coach Tony has taught me through the game of basketball,” she said to a crowd of friends, coaches, and family members gathered at the Albany Marriot to celebrate the student nominees and winners. “But one of the most important ones has been to play with heart. To want the ball, to put everything you have into every second of every practice and every game.” During her last sectionals game, she was guarding a player who was a very good three-point shooter. “I was diving to intercept balls that were being passed to her or from her and usually landing on my side on the floor, working hard to avoid picks on me so that my player could get open to take the outside shot, and trying to keep up with my player,” she says. Though they were down by many points and it was clear they wouldn’t win the game, Lindsay never let up. Lindsay Pattison ’12 was named the top basketball scholarathlete in the Central Hudson Valley League.
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