Aubrey Felton is an eighteen-year-old senior at Tyler Legacy, where she is a member of the varsity volleyball team. Playing middle and right side on the court, she is also a member of the ETA1 18s club team and has recently committed to take her volleyball talents to Athens, Tennessee, where she will be part of the Tennessee Wesleyan University Bulldog volleyball team.

An Oak Creek resident for five years, Aubrey loves hanging out at the clubhouse in the summer, working out at the neighborhood gym, and enjoying the local food. Aubrey started playing volleyball in second grade for the local rec leagues. “My mom played volleyball in high school so she told me I should play,” Aubrey says. “I tried it out and loved it so I’ve been playing any chance I got since then.” She began her high school volleyball career at Grace Community High School, where she made  varsity as a freshman and played on that squad through her junior year before heading to Tyler Legacy for her senior season.

Balancing the life of a student-athlete is just that: a balance. “I am always at school, at practice, working out, playing in a game, or traveling to games and tournaments,” Aubrey says. “I have had to learn how to make time for school work, so I have had to do homework on buses, in the car, and in the locker room before games. I learned to make do with the time I had and just tried to make the most of it.”

Of course, the balancing act wouldn’t be possible without guiding hands along the way. Aubrey credits her high school coach, Leo Scott, for helping Aubrey get where she is today, pushing her to be better than she thought she could be. Aubrey is using Coach Scott’s wisdom and her own experience to learn not to hold herself to unrealistic standards. While she strives for success, she knows she can’t be perfect, and says it’s “important to extend grace to [herself]” so she doesn’t dwell on mistakes. 

Aubrey’s favorite memory of her volleyball journey was in eighth grade, when she and a friend were asked to join the high school varsity team for one of their practices. “It was really fun to meet the people I ended up playing with the next season,” she shares. She says her biggest milestone is committing to Tennessee Wesleyan University because it’s been a dream of hers since she was little to play college volleyball. While at TWU, she hopes to further develop her volleyball skills while also majoring in exercise science, planning to one day become a physical therapist. By working hard and giving herself the grace to make mistakes, Aubrey Felton is going to ace her next chapter.