MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Soddy-Daisy softball player Taylor Wilson is about as tough as they come.
It’s not just because she’s a catcher. It has more to do about what she’s already dealt with in life.
It’s been a particularly difficult senior year as she tries to help the Lady Trojans win the TSSAA Class AAA state championship.
Wilson lost her biggest supporter when her father, Alan, died of a massive heart attack Dec. 5 at age 44. His good friend Junior Lasley, whose daughter Brandi plays third base for Soddy-Daisy and is a classmate of Taylor’s, said Alan loved all the players, his daughter’s closest friends, as if they were his own.
“He was probably the biggest Soddy-Daisy softball fan there was,” said Rhonda Wilson, who can be seen commemorating her late husband at games by wearing around her neck the dog tags from his days in the U.S. Army.