This week’s Good GMC West Michigan Allstar is Amber Getty, senior point guard for the Wayland Wildcats.
In sports, there are certain feats that are held above all others. Accomplishments that lift those who reach them to a higher level, simply by virtue of their having reached them. In basketball, that feat is a triple-double.
It’s one thing to score 10-points in a game, or even to grab 10-rebounds or dish out 10-assists. If an athlete reaches any one of these milestones, they had a large influence on the result of the game. It’s a completely different thing, however, for an athlete to put all these milestones together into one game, as Getty did recently to lead her Wildcats to a victory over East Kentwood. That’s the type of performance that lifts up an entire team.
And she didn’t stop at merely a triple-double. Getty scored 22-points and passed for 10-assists, making her singularly responsible for 42 of the Wildcats 73-points. She also snagged 12-rebounds and threw in an impressive 6-steals for good measure (bringing her four steals shy of the supposedly unattainable quadruple-double).
Getty is a one-of-a-kind asset to the Wayland girls basketball team. Which is impressive, especially considering that basketball is the third of her three sports. Getty will attend Davenport University next year on a scholarship for her first two sports, softball and volleyball.
Incidentally, there’s a triple-double in volleyball, too.
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