Victoria Culver, softball
Victoria Culver has plans for her future that don’t necessarily include softball, but plans can change.
Culver plans to study accounting and education at Saint Vincent College, in hopes of becoming either an accountant or a math teacher.
She plays third base and is the cleanup hitter for Connellsville’s softball team and it is her favorite sport, so she would like to play beyond high school.
“I’ve had other offers from other schools,” Culver said. “I’ve been emailing them, but they said they have enough players and they are already set. But one of the players plays for my travel team was going to go there and play, but she’s not going there anymore. So, if they still need a player, I may play there.”
Culver maintains a 3.78 GPA at Connellsville and won the school’s Golden Glove award as a freshman. She is also in the Connellsville marching band and used to be a basketball player and swimmer.
For all that she does, Culver is Connellsville’s spring sports selection in the Centennial Chevrolet Scholar/Athlete Spotlight program. The daughter of Ron and Nancy Culver, of Indian Head, she has an older brother, William, who is a sophomore at Saint Vincent.
“In senior high, I have been in the marching band,” she said. “I play flute. I took lessons, but my instructor was also the teacher in school, so that helped.”
Her favorite classes are zoology and botany because “they are just really fun. Mr. Guthrie makes them fun classes.”
But she chose her majors based on other important factors.
“I like math classes,” Culver said. “Math is hard, but it’s what I like to do. I like working with numbers. My plan is to be a double major, so I could go into accounting or become a math teacher.”
Culver does the math well enough to realize that the Lady Falcons are playing better and winning more than they have in recent seasons. Connellsville is 3-5 overall and 3-4 in Section 1-AAAA games.
“Softball is my favorite sport. I’ve been playing it a while and I played T-ball and baseball before I kind of evolved into softball,” Culver said. “We’re doing pretty good, better than last year and the years before. I mostly play third base, but I’m kind of a utility player. I bat fourth in our lineup.”
She knows she wouldn’t be the player she is with the support of her parents.
“When I was younger and I wanted to go outside and throw or something, they would always help me,” Culver said. “I used to pitch, so they would come out and catch for me. They would help me set up the net so I could hit into it.”
That’s why she is hoping to continue playing the sport she loves while studying in college.