This week’s Duke Automotive-Suffolk News-Herald Player of the Week is a lot of things to the Nansemond-Suffolk Academy softball team.

This year alone, senior Brooklyne Carr has been a left fielder, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman and catcher.

Lady Saints coach Brittany Wilkins said the only position left on the field that Carr has not played at NSA is pitcher.

“I feel confident putting her pretty much anywhere on that field,” Wilkins said. “She’s just been around the game so long, and she knows it well.”

For the Lady Saints, Carr is also an important leader in a variety of ways. Through 12 games, she leads the team in batting average (.639), on-base percentage (.682), runs scored (17) and doubles (11).

Her status as an offensive standout for Nansemond-Suffolk is what led to her Player of the Week nomination.

During the week of April 3, the Lady Saints went 3-0, and she was particularly instrumental in a couple of those wins.

On the way to NSA’s 25-0 road victory over Norfolk Collegiate School on April 6, she went 5-for-5 with two singles, two doubles, a solo home run and four runs batted in.

Then, she helped the Lady Saints avenge a March 18 loss to The Collegiate School by going 2-for-3 and contributing a home run to a 10-1 victory in Richmond on April 8.

“I really couldn’t have asked for anything more from her that week,” Wilkins said.

Willing to give herself a positive evaluation, Carr said, “I believe did really well. I played my heart out as much as I can. I did it for the team.”

She wasted little time in life before becoming involved with softball.

“I started right when the age requirement could let you, so I think it was 5,” she said.

Her father, Randy Carr, got her started in tee-ball, and “ever since then, I fell in love with the game,” Brooklyne Carr said. “There’s something about it I love. It’s hard to describe. The dirt, the cleats, the sliding, the hits, making those amazing plays. It’s the atmosphere.”

She has played nine years of travel ball, seven of which have come with the Virginia Legends. At NSA, she played for the junior varsity team as a seventh-grader but has been on the varsity squad ever since.

Carr has multiple sources of motivation to play, including her grandfather, Frank Rountree.

“I was his only granddaughter on my mom’s side,” she said, noting he would support her in any way he could. He passed away when she was in fourth or fifth grade. “It’s been a while, but it still has a big effect on me.”

She is also driven to play by her team and her father.

“My dad has been my biggest fan and my biggest coach of all,” she said.

And he is pleased with what she has been doing this season for the Lady Saints (8-4).

“We’re proud of her,” he said, adding that this has been a comeback tour for her after surgery on her right elbow set her back a bit in her junior year.

Surgery was required because Carr had a pinched nerve, and she was losing feeling in her throwing hand.

After the successful operation, “she has worked hard through the winter months and gotten a little faster,” Randy Carr said.

The Lady Saints have been beneficiaries, as soon will be the softball team at Randolph-Macon College, where she has committed to play after high school.