There’s another star athlete in Tom Brady’s family.
Maya Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback’s niece, is a softball prodigy at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, Calif., where the left-handed shortstop helped the team to a 27-1-1 record as a freshman. Brady is batting .391 with 30 runs, 12 RBIs and seven doubles and is 13 for 13 on stolen bases with a .931 fielding percentage.
“Given the athletes in the family, it’s definitely hard to make your mark,” Brady told the Ventura County Star. “It’s hard to pass up someone who wins the Super Bowl. But hopefully in the future I can make my own mark and say look what I did in my career.”
Besides her four-time Super Bowl champion uncle, Maya’s mother, Maureen, also excelled at sports. Maureen Brady was a pitcher for Fresno State, where she led the country in wins in 1994 and went to the Women’s College World Series twice. And she said her brother keeps up with Maya’s career.
“He is totally into it,” Maureen Brady told the Star. “He loves any chance he gets to see Maya play. Unfortunately, with the distance and everything he has going on with football and his own family, it’s not very often. But he follows what she is doing as much as he can.”
And that involves giving Maya, who’s already verbally committed to UCLA, advice, too.
“He doesn’t really talk to me specifically about softball, but he always tells me to work hard and gives me some motivation,” Maya said of her famous uncle. “He just says to try your hardest and supports me a lot.”
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