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Brothers help shape Keighley Davis’ athletic success: 2026 co-BCR Female Athlete of the Year · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Brothers helped shape Keeley Davis's athletic success. Twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: COBCR Female Athlete of the Year written by Kevin Hieronymous.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. You would think it would be
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  Speaker 1: one of Annette Davis's four rambunctious boys to be the
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  Speaker 1: first in the family to require stitches. You would be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It was her daughter, Keiley, the baby of the family,
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  Speaker 1: who fell off a scooter riding with her brother Cale
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  Speaker 1: and needed stitched up. She always had to keep up
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  Speaker 1: with her brothers as she was the first one to
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  Speaker 1: ever get stitches out of the kids, and Nette said
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  Speaker 1: she is still a girl at heart. Even when she
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  Speaker 1: was young, she would be out riding her bike with
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  Speaker 1: a dress on like her four brothers. That little girl
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  Speaker 1: grew up to be a very good athlete. Davis was
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  Speaker 1: a unanimous three Rivers East All Conference selection for Princeton's
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  Speaker 1: regional championship volleyball team. She became Princeton's all time leading
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  Speaker 1: scorer in basketball girls or boys, earning unanimous three Rivers East,
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  Speaker 1: All Conference and All State honors, and she was a
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  Speaker 1: standout for Phs's regional finalist soccer team. For all of
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  Speaker 1: her accomplishments, Davis is the twenty twenty five to twenty
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  Speaker 1: six COBCR Female Athlete of the Year with Saint Bede's
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  Speaker 1: Lily Bosnik. Having four older brothers, Drake twenty seven, Wyatt
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, k Al twenty three, and Teagan twenty one
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  Speaker 1: may have brought pressure to live up to, but it
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  Speaker 1: also had its benefits. They were all good at sports
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  Speaker 1: and pushed me to be better and work harder, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot I could look up to, she said. Davis
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  Speaker 1: said she especially learned a little bit of everything from Teagan,
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  Speaker 1: like his hustle and how much he put out there
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  Speaker 1: to help his team get scoring, not just himself, and
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  Speaker 1: how selfless he was on the court and off the court.
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  Speaker 1: While the boys could get a bit rough at time,
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  Speaker 1: they always looked out after their sister. They got in
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  Speaker 1: trouble if I told Mom about them, she said, with
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  Speaker 1: a laugh. They are all very protective of her and net.
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  Speaker 1: Davis said when she was really young, Teagan was really
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  Speaker 1: protective of her because it was just him and Kayley
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  Speaker 1: at home while everyone else was at school. Davis's one
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  Speaker 1: shining moment in basketball this year came when she first
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  Speaker 1: broke Taia Romangnoli's twenty seven year old girls scoring record
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  Speaker 1: and then set Princeton's all time record set by Noel
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  Speaker 1: Laporte just last year, finishing with oney six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine career points. It means a lot. Just shows
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  Speaker 1: what I've put in over the years to get where
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  Speaker 1: I am today and how having a supportive and helpful
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  Speaker 1: team got me there, she said. Davis especially raised her
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  Speaker 1: game when running mate Cameron Driscoll was lost with a
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  Speaker 1: mid season knee injury. She went from averaging fifteen point
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  Speaker 1: nine ppg to twenty one point five ppg in her
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  Speaker 1: next thirteen games, incredibly doubling her three point shooting to
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  Speaker 1: four point six percent. Kaylee leaves a legacy here that
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  Speaker 1: goes far beyond the stats and the records she's set
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  Speaker 1: this year. The teammate player in person she was this
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  Speaker 1: year will be remembered forever. Phs basketball coach Tiffany Goonighum
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  Speaker 1: said Davis's senior year started with a bang when she
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  Speaker 1: played a big role on the Tigris' first regional volleyball
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  Speaker 1: championship in four years, defeating Newman at home in what
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  Speaker 1: would be coach Andy Puck's last win in his twenty
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  Speaker 1: four year tenure at PHS. It was definitely a great
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  Speaker 1: way to end my senior year of volleyball. Wish we
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  Speaker 1: could have made it farther, but winning regional was good,
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  Speaker 1: she said. I think all of us were just motivated,
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  Speaker 1: wanting to get there, and all working hard to get
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  Speaker 1: there too. Davis picked up soccer as a sophomore, switching
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  Speaker 1: over from track, and it proved to be a most
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  Speaker 1: relaxing sport. I always like to try hard to win stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but it was definitely my sport. I didn't put as
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  Speaker 1: much pressure on myself, she said, I put a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pressure on myself involvelleyball and basketball. Having that last
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  Speaker 1: sport to finish out the year laid back was nice.
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  Speaker 1: She is a great athlete and took to soccer quickly.
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  Speaker 1: I believe her approach to soccer was less intense than
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  Speaker 1: with other sports, allowing her to really enjoy herself. PHS
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  Speaker 1: soccer coach David Gray said she has become one of
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  Speaker 1: our top players and was also a physical presence on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. The other thing Keey brought
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  Speaker 1: was a great teammate, her approach to competition, her humor,
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  Speaker 1: her love for her teammates. I can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: we were very grateful to have Keeley as part of
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  Speaker 1: our program these past three seasons. Davis said she could
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  Speaker 1: always count on her family, especially her brothers, to support
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  Speaker 1: her in anything she does. Nice to have a family
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  Speaker 1: who's always there to support even in bad games, They're
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  Speaker 1: going to be there. It's nice to have them, she said.
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  Speaker 1: To this day, they come home to support her while
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  Speaker 1: playing sports and take pictures with her for prom and homecoming.
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  Speaker 1: Annette Davis said of Eli's brothers. Davis feels as if
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  Speaker 1: she got everything out of her high school experience and
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know if she can pinpoint one single moment as
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  Speaker 1: her favorite. I've had a pretty good time in everything
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  Speaker 1: sports and with my friends, she said. Davis will continue
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  Speaker 1: her athletic career playing volleyball for William Penn University in Oscaloosa, Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: where her mom's family lives nearby. She's excited to start
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  Speaker 1: her new adventures. It's something new. I think having a
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  Speaker 1: different coach to push me in a way I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been pushed before will definitely help me grow and succeed.
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  Speaker 1: More said Davis, who plans to study nursing and wants
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  Speaker 1: to become a labor and delivery nurse. It's definitely a
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  Speaker 1: program want to get into and help