The morning before a softball game, Seawolves right fielder Bria Green eats bacon, egg and cheese on a roll, takes a shower, fixes her hair and then does her make-up the same as any other day. Then she listens to music—any kind of music. She usually likes whatever is playing on the radio.
In the field, she’s loose. She is waiting for the fly ball that comes to the outfield- the ball that she can dive for. Yet when the sophomore psychology major steps to the plate, her mind is pure focus. On March 30, Green hit a grand slam against UMBC.
“When I’m playing, I play for teammates,” Green said. “The score was 0-0. We had two outs. I just wanted to make my pitcher feel more comfortable. I just did my job and I hit a grand slam.”
“It really didn’t feel like a grand slam,” she said later on. “I just scored with more people.”
While Green is a starting right fielder for the Seawolves, she plays every position, watches every movie and aspires to be an FBI special agent.
As the team assembles on the field at the start of the game, Green leads their chant. Her energy is contagious.
“She’s business at the plate, but she’s able to joke around,” Allison Cukrov, a sophomore sustainability studies major and Seawolves pitcher, said.
Alexandra Pisciotta, a freshman health sciences major and Seawolves pitcher, said that Green plays with “great energy.” Green laughed it off and called it obnoxious.
Green says her biggest flaw is holding herself to a high standard because she starts to think more like an individual player and less like she is a member of the team.
“I feel like whether you have on your jersey or not, everything you affects the team,” Green said. “The team is really important to me.”
When she graduates, Green wants to work for the FBI in the Behavioral Analysis Unit. (And yes, she is a fan of CBS’ “Criminal Minds”).
Otherwise, she usually watches movies during her free time. Her top movies include anything with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “White Chicks,” “Mean Girls,” and “Love and Basketball.” She likes just about every sports movie. When she is feeling down, she sometimes watches “The Notebook.”
Athletically, Green is most proud of her ability to play every position on the field. One of her former coaches told her that she needed to be well-rounded.
“If you want to get into college, you need to be versatile,” Green said. “I think it’s the fact that I can play every position. I think I’m most proud of that.”
Like other athletes, Green has considered quitting.
While she wants continue playing softball for her family and teammates, Green says that her main motivation to play is Liz Marino, her former coach’s wife. When she was in middle school, her coach’s, Angelo’s, family took her as their own. Liz would approach Green and revel in her athletic ability and tell her that she was special.
“She passed away in 2010,” Green said. “So I think I play for her.”
“I think that I put in my best work and the most work into softball,” Green said. “Without softball, I wouldn’t be who I am today.”