The friendships that are made while being on a team can last a lifetime. Sisterhood is a forever memory and for the Thompson sisters, they’ve done more than be just sisters. Brianna Thompson is a senior lacrosse and soccer player who graduated from Interboro High School.
Since Brianna played soccer on the men’s team at Delaware Community College, she is unable to play soccer here for her senior year since she exceeded the four years. Sammy Thompson completed four years at Cabrini. Bree is still able to play lacrosse this season as a defense player.
Her sister, Sammy Thompson, is the Assistant women’s soccer coach. Sammy attended Cabrini for four years. She was captain here and played with her sister when she came to Cabrini for one year. “I feel like I’ve always been a leader for her. I was already a captain when she got to the team,” Sammy Thompson said. “When Bree came to Cabrini I was already a captain, so I always played that role of a leader for her,” Sammy said.
When Sammy went to college, the bond seemed to grow apart between the sisters. “When Sammy went away for college, she was out of the house and I didn’t have her around as much as I used to. I used to come up to Cabrini and hang with her in the dorm,” Bree said.
The sisters have played soccer and ran track together for years and when Sammy left for college Bree continued to see her sister until it was time to go to college, she eventually transferred here.
The sisters played one year of soccer together while Sammy was at Cabrini. Sammy played the leadership role for her sister and she always looked up to her sister. Their relationship has improved after the few years of the typical years of hating your siblings. “We have movie nights and hang out together a lot. We usually go to our nephew’s football game to cheer him on too,” Sammy said.
Whether on or off the field the sisters never had to change the way their relationship was. Even when Sammy was hired as assistant coach, Bree said that she always saw her sister as a teammate, and they would walk off the field knowing nothing changed in their relationship. With having a sister as an assistant coach on the soccer field, Bree says that she’s always respected her sister.
Sammy says that she’s fit the leadership role for Bree well and that they can still go to family parties together without feeling different. On the field, the sisters can tell that it is a different feeling as to other players as they view their coaches. “She’s kind of like a teammate still, even though she had more authority,” Bree said.
The two siblings say that they do a lot more now than they used to like going to lunch and dinner together and they keep the normal family things going to keep their relationship alive. Both Bree and Sammy have a relationship that combines work and play on and off the soccer field.
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