Athlete Of The Week: Brynn Kew

NORTH EASTHAM – Sophomore captain Brynn Kew stuffed the stat sheet last Friday in the Nauset girls basketball team’s home opener against Sandwich.

The Warriors fell 56-25, but Kew, a forward, made her mark. She scored 40 percent of the team’s points, and her fast start had Nauset in lockstep with the Blue Knights to begin the game.

Kew finished with 10 points and six rebounds while adding one assist and one block. She scored Nauset’s first six points.

As the apparent first option in Nauset’s offense, Kew said she tries to get the best possible shot off that she can. She hit a pair of 3-pointers and made two trips to the free-throw line against Sandwich.

“I try to just work with my teammates,” Kew said. “I try to communicate.”

With the Warriors off to their best start in years (after beginning the season 2-0), the team is working on “everything on the court,” according to Kew.

“Trying to be a better team, trying to work together, be communicative on the court, especially on defense, and to just move the offense along and to get good offense flowing,” she said.

Kew also works well together with junior captain Amari Brace, Nauset’s primary ball-handler, head coach Jean Leyton said. Brace assisted both of Kew’s 3-point makes Friday.

“She plays a thousand percent,” Leyton said of Kew. “I’d take 20 of her, and she works out and she's a great kid.”