#36 ON Fox 40's Top 40 Most Impactful Local Sports Figures: Brenna Bough of Whitney Point Field Hockey
We continue Fox 40's Top 40 Most Impactful Sports Figures, sponsored by UHS Orthopedics and UHS Sports Medicine with number 36 it is Brenna Bough of Whitney Point Field Hockey.
Bough's story is still mostly unwritten, but what has already gone done on the page is maybe the most impressive resume a Section IV athlete has ever compiled.
Bough averaged nearly a goal a game in her first year on Whitney Point's varsity field hockey team as a seventh grader. Over the course of her seven year varsity career as a Golden Eagle, Bough scored 151 goals and dished out 67 assists and that was while still being considered the best player on the field at all times. Bough won four New York State Championships as a Golden Eagle and won 92 percent of games she played in as a varsity eagle. Individually, Bough was named Max Field Hockey Player of the Year for the State OF New York and the Northeast Region her junior season, a year in which was finished fourth in the country in points and in goals. She finished first in the US in assists as a sophomore and her senior year was once again top-10 throughout the states in goals and points.
Since graduating high school just over a year ago, Bough joined the Ohio State Field Hockey where she picked up where she left off. Bough was the Buckeyes' second-leading scorer, as a freshman she scored 12 goals and two assists, good enough for 26 points. Her dozen tallies were good enough to tie for seventh-most in the Big 10 conference and earned her All-Region Honors by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association.
Whitney Point and Section IV Field Hockey have produced immense talent over the years, but none have reached the peak either individually or in a team-setting as Brenna Bough.
For her dominance in high school, her fast start in the Big 10 and continuing to represent Whitney Point and its field hockey program, Brenna Bough comes in at number 36 on our Top 40 Most Impactful Local Sports Figures list. There's no other way to say it other than Brenna Bough was untouchable as an Eagle and will almost certainly continue that immortality as a Buckeye.
Fox 40's Top 40 Most Impactful Sports Figures is sponsored by UHS Orthopedics and UHS Sports Medicine, #35 will be aired on Monday.