'Emmy Roys is my favorite all-time football player I’ve ever had. I don’t see that ever changing, to be honest. You talk about the impact she’s had on our program and we have kids, girls, who look up to her and (are) playing flag football because of Emmy.'
“We love playing with her,” said teammate Trevor Weakley, who leads Western Boone with 1,298 rushing yards going into Friday’s Class 3A Sectional 29 semifinal against Danville. “At this point, she’s just one of us.”
And Roys did think about quitting. She loved basketball, anyway, and throwing the discus and shot put would soon become part of her life in high school. She had other sports to fill her time. But her football teammates would not hear of that talk. Strength, as it turns out, was not an issue. Roys does not know exactly her current max lifts, but she recently put up 315 pounds three times on back squat and bench pressed 185 pounds three times. “I’m pretty average the guys,” she said. “I can lift more than a lot of them. I’m like in the middle. But I’m not super weak compared to them.”
Pelley said “courage” if the first word that comes to mind when he thinks of Roys, who is listed at 5-9, 205 pounds. She could have easily decided to focus on basketball and track. She is one of the best players on Western Boone’s basketball team, averaging 9.4 points and 10.9 rebounds as a junior, and set the school record last year is the discus and is one foot away from doing the same in the shot put.
“Coach Pelley has always been that person ,” Roys said. “Even in grade school he would come down to the elementary school and say hi to all the kids. He never treated me any different than anyone else, but he lets me know he’s always there for me even if I’m going through hard times.”Roys has the unique perspective of going from going from a boys to a girls sport. “If anyone has a problem in football, it gets settled at practice,” she said. “No bickering. It’s a lot different.
On her own team, Roys said she has never encountered a problem. Pelley can think of one, though. When Roys was a freshman, the team was about to leave for the state championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium. Roys was still getting ready in the locker room when the bus left without her. “We had to come back and get her,” Pelley said.
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