Colorado University Athletics
Brianna Hooks
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5-1, Maple Valley, Wash. (Tahoma)
Club: Crossfire Premier
HIGH SCHOOL: Hooks was truly a leader for
the Tahoma Bears. She has scored 36 goals in her career, and her 79
assists became a school record. At Tahoma she won three South Puget
Sound League North Championships and back-to-back league
championships. Hooks continued to improve, from a 19 point, 14-3-2
freshman season to a 58 point, 21-1 senior campaign. That season,
she also set the record for most assists with 28. The Bears placed
second at the state championship when Hooks was a sophomore and
finished third in her final two seasons. Hooks' accolades are
nearly endless. She was selected as first-team SPSL North four
times, Seattle Times All-Area three times, first-team Tacoma News
Tribune All-Area and first-team All-State twice and was a WIAA Team
Academic Award winner twice (for athletes with a grade-point
average of 3.85 or higher). She was her team's offensive and
overall MVP twice a piece, as well as a two-time 4A state MVP. As a
senior, she was the SPSL North's Co-MVP and TNT's player of the
year. She played two seasons of basketball and ran track, but she
also excelled beyond Tahoma. Her crossfire ECNL club team won the
state championship in 2011. In ODP, she competed in numerous events
and camps, including two Thanksgiving Interregional Events, where
she was the leading scorer in 2011. She was named
All-Tournament second team at the 2011 and '12 Region IV ODP
Championships. She was also invited to the US Youth Soccer National
Training Sessions in 2010 and '11. IN THE CLASSROOM: Hooks intends to major in psychology.
PERSONAL: Brianna Hooks was born in Seattle on Feb. 10, 1995. Her family is no stranger to sports. Her father, Kim Hooks, played baseball at Edmonds Community College, and her mother, Kelly Wirtala, played tennis at Shoreline Community College. Her grandfather, James Hooks, played football at Central Oklahoma before joining the Detroit Lions. She has two younger brothers, Kim and Julius. She hopes to become a sports psychologist. Hooks sang alto in Tahoma's treble choir, where she had a superior score at the state competition. She has taken three years of American Sign Language and hopes to become fully fluent while at CU. She liked the sense of home CU's campus gave her and is excited to avoid the Washington rain.