Girls Preparatory School had an assembly Wednesday in which seniors Larkin Brown, Anna Croxall and Allison Smith signed national letters of intent to continue their athletic careers in NCAA Division I.
Brown and Smith signed to row for Virginia and Dartmouth, respectively, and Croxall signed for soccer at Tennessee Tech.
Croxall was a center midfielder for the GPS team that just won the TSSAA Division II-AA state soccer championship and went 26-7-5 in her varsity career – with a region record of 11-2-3. She had four goals and two assists this season. She also runs track, is an honor student and serves as a GPS Ambassador and volunteer tutor.
“Anna is the epitome of what it means to be a Bruiser,” soccer coach Patrick Winecoff said in a GPS release. “No one works harder or is more invested in the success of the team than she is. It is evident in the training environment or during a match that she is a selfless player who celebrates the team.”
Brown and Smith have the two fastest 2000-meter times, 7:16.5 and 7:19, in GPS crew history, and have won the last two Susan BeVille Forker Awards for exhibiting the “same leadership and determination” as the Bruisers’ star rower from the class of 2001. They were in the fourth-place boat, out of 91, in the women’s youth four at the recent Head of the Hooch regatta and competed also this fall in the famed Head of the Charles in Cambridge, Massachusetts.