{"id":207131,"date":"2026-04-23T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207131\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:12:36","slug":"farris-thomas-student-athlete-of-the-week-brooklyn-rice-southern-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207131\/","title":{"rendered":"Farris &#038; Thomas Student-Athlete of the Week: Brooklyn Rice, Southern N&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Brooklyn Rice has been a big part of her Southern Nash High varsity girls soccer team\u2019s success this season, making her the Farris &amp; Thomas Law Student-Athlete of the Week.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Brooklyn, a freshman forward, scored the Ladybirds\u2019 only two goals last week in a 1-0 victory against C.B. Aycock and a 6-1 loss to Fike. For the season, her 28 goals ranks eighth among NCHSAA 5-A players as Southern Nash has put together an 11-5 record.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">The daughter of Sara and Brian Rice of Samaria, Brooklyn has a 4.25 GPA at Southern Nash, where she takes all Honors courses. Brooklyn has a leadership role in the school\u2019s chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">She has been a standout in volleyball, cross-country, basketball and indoor and outdoor track and field for the Ladybirds this year.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Brooklyn is active at Raleigh Road Baptist Church in Wilson, where she helps in the nursery. She also babysits when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Brooklyn plays for the Wilson Youth Soccer Association\u2019s \u201811 Rise girls team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Rice has been a big part of her Southern Nash High varsity girls soccer team\u2019s success this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,16800,82111],"class_list":{"0":"post-207131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-school-sports","15":"tag-student-athlete-of-the-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}