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She did what she wanted to
do to make herself
successful. It was up to her.
Her determination is huge.
Cindy Thornhill, Brittany’s mother
ments are required.
Brittany received her appointment through U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor and U.S. Sen. John Warner.
The choice of the academy appealed to Brittany whose grandfather served in the Merchant Marine in World War II.
Despite recruitment and passing high-powered interviews before Congressional panels, she had to take the SATs four times, struggling to bring up her verbal score to meet the Kings Point minimum requirement. She studied verbal analysis with flash cards for 30 days, endlessly going over and over the same material, well past the point when others might have quit. She had learned the value of repetition, she said, with softball. She practiced every day, over and over again.
“It was repetition after repetition,” her mother said, admiringly. “It was boring doing the same thing over and over—whether it was for the SA'ft or pitching. But where most kids quit and say they don’t want to do it anymore, Brittany kept on.”
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