ROCKINGHAM — A couple of her best performances to date has one member of the Richmond Senior High School girls’ basketball team spotlighted in The Richmond Observer’s weekly feature series.
Olivia Brown, a junior guard, has been named the Official Richmond County Female Student-Athlete of the Week presented by Rockingham NC Self Storage.
Kicking off the winter sports series, Brown helped the Lady Raider basketball team get back in the win column last week.
Scoring a single-game career-high in points during one of those outings, Brown earned her first career recognition.
Athletic Profile: Olivia Brown
Year: Junior
Winter sport: Basketball
Position: Shooting guard
Varsity Experience: 1 season
“CLASSROOM CREDITS” WITH OLIVIA BROWN
With a little less than a month until the end of the first semester, Brown has been putting in the work in the classroom as well as on the court.
An honors student, Brown is taking four classes at Richmond this semester — Art Intermediate, English III Honors, Physical Science and Weight Training Honors. During the first nine-week grading period, Brown earned three As and one B.
Currently with all As during the second nine-week period, Brown will look to bolster her 4.156 weighted grade point average.
During the spring semester, Brown will take another section of Weight Training Honors, along with Civics Literacy Honors, Food and Nutrition I and Math 3.
“CAREER HIGH” WITH OLIVIA BROWN
The Lady Raiders played three games last week and secured wins in two of them. Richmond fell to reigning NCISAA 3A state champion Grace Christian School before rattling off wins over Southern Lee and Overhills high schools.
In the 84-56 loss to Grace Christian, Brown netted six points on 2-of-4 shooting. She had a pair of three-pointers in the second half.
Three nights later at Southern Lee, Brown provided a spark off the bench in Richmond’s 78-25 win over the Lady Cavaliers. Finishing the game 6-of-11 from the floor, Brown scored 15 points, a single-game career-high.
She connected on three of her seven three-point attempts in the win, showing off her range from beyond the arc.
Richmond played in the Queens of the Court showcase Saturday and defeated Overhills 54-45. Brown followed her performance the night before with 14 points on 6-of-12 shooting. Six of those points were the result of three-pointers.
In both the Southern Lee and Overhills games, Brown recorded three rebounds, one steal and one assist.
Through seven games this season, Brown is averaging a team second-best 7.8 points per game and shooting 50% from the field. She’s also averaging 1.3 rebounds and 0.7 steals per game. Brown’s 10 three-pointers are second on the team.
Richmond (4-3, 1-0 SAC) has a three-game week that starts Tuesday at Pinecrest High School (3-3, 0-0 SAC). Tip-off is at 6 p.m.
“RAPID RESPONSE VIDEO” WITH OLIVIA BROWN
The Richmond Observer will publish its Official Richmond County Male Student-Athlete of the Week soon.
