Tyshon Patty (Baseball, Jackson State University) grew up in Lawrenceville. HelloNation asks student athletes one question about the place that raised them and records the answer on camera. This is Tyshon Patty’s, in full.
The question
Tell a story about a moment when your hometown came together or achieved something that made you proud.
The answer, as recorded
Transcript. What follows is a transcript of the video above, in Tyshon Patty’s own words. It has not been rewritten, and no part of it was drafted for them.
Hey guys, it's Ty here. The moment that made me proud was when we were around about 10 years old. Me and my brothers that I grew up with, they're my friends but we're close so I call them my brothers and we're all family oriented and we ended up going to the state championship for baseball down in Macon, Georgia and I would say just the support that we had down there. We had signs made for us before we left and just showing how the community comes together before we ended up going down there and although we lost in the championship, I would say even the whole community uplifted us when we came back. It was a lot of people that came out and showed love and just showed us that that they were behind us basically even though that we lost the championship we were all sad you know we were crying but coming back seeing that made me realize that Gwinnett County is like a strong community and I would say that that's what made me realize like that we grew up in a really good community. And I was really proud of how far we went because I mean we didn't really know that we were gonna go that far and I would say that them uplifting us helped us realize that we can really do it and we end up losing and getting second place but we thank them for coming up.
Recorded by HelloNation as part of its athlete voices program and published by Hello Newswire, HelloNation’s good news newswire. The words are the speaker’s own.
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