GNTC, GSD grad takes education from class, court back home

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Four years after starring for Georgia School for the Deaf in basketball, Brittney Daughtry has returned to the GSD campus.

Her new goal is to give back in a way she knows how. She’s putting her collegiate training from Georgia Northwestern Technical College to work at the school, which launched her career.

Today, Daughtry is making her wish come true. She currently serves as a resident advisor at GSD.

“I work with the elementary school girls on campus,” said Daughtry. “I help teach more sign language, basic student life things and whatever it takes to help them make it at GSD.”

Daughtry, now 26 years old, was the Mason-Dixon Tournament Most Valuable Player during her senior year of high school at the Cave Spring institution.

The annual basketball event pits teams from schools for the deaf from across the Southeast against one another. Only a short time later, Daughtry became her high school’s first female to ever become a collegiate athletic signee.

“I love to work with kids,” Daughtry said in her GNTC signing day interview in August 2011. “I want to help them and watch them learn like all my teachers and coaches have done for me. It always makes me feel so proud.”

To celebrate, the entire student body attended the event that day and waved pom poms.

The former Georgia Northwestern Lady Bobcat is currently considering colleges to pursue her next degree in early childhood education.

“I earned an associate degree in Early Childhood Care and Education from Georgia Northwestern,” said Daughtry. “Just thinking about my next step, I am really happy about the opportunity to bring whatever education I obtain back to the school that has done so much for me.”

Originally from Sylvania, Daughtry talks about how she didn’t have much interaction with other children early in life.

“I started to lose my hearing when I was two,” said Daughtry. “A really bad fever started my hearing loss. When it was time to begin kindergarten, we made the decision to attend GSD. I learned everything from sign language to the game I love. Both GSD and Georgia Northwestern have taught me so much.”

Source: Rome News

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