Mt. Hope's twin athletes look ahead following volleyball loss

Twin sisters Brooke and Alyssa McGreevy just played their last high school volleyball game together, and while the season’s come to an end they’re happy that the team did as well as it did.

“It was a great year,” Alyssa said Monday. “We did really well.”

The girls, who have always been athletic and come from an active family, were part of a Huskies team that won the first Division title in its history. With a 13-1 record, the team had its best-ever record before bowing to five-seeded North Smithfield, 3-1, in a quarterfinal match last Tuesday.

“They wanted it more than our team,” Alyssa said. “They were more passionate and more excited. But yeah, it wasn’t bad because we won the division for the first time since the program started in 1993.

The McGreevy sisters were an integral part of the winning team. Alyssa served as the setter and Brooke, the outside hitter. It was a bit of a role reversal for Alyssa, who has more experience hitting. Coach Katherine Boynton asked her to take on the setting duties to give the team a more aggressive edge, and the strategy worked. The role was a lot less glamorous than hitting, but she said it was worth it.

Though their high school volleyball days are over, sports have long been and will continue to be important parts of the sisters’ lives.

Alyssa was a starting center on the boys’ Pop Warner football team in Bristol, and both helped St. Mary’s Church capture its first CYO girls’ basketball state title. Alyssa went on to wrestle at Kickemuit Middle School and came in second in the junior varsity state wrestling championship before starting high school. Since then, both have variously played basketball, volleyball and lacrosse, and they’ll likely be playing spring sports in addition to playing in extracurricular league volleyball.

After that, they will likely go their separate ways. Brooke hopes to go into art and education and has been looking at Rhode Island College. Alyssa has been looking at Becker of the University of New Haven, her father’s alma mater. She plans to go into criminology or criminal justice.