Britney Freeney

By Crystal Villarreal

Britney Freeney, 20, is a bright-eyed young woman with her head held high and pointed towards the future. She is from Dallas, TX, and has lived there all of her life. She graduated from Bryan Adams High School in 2009.

            Freeney is well rounded and very active in sports. She’s an athlete with a passion for basketball and flag football. In fact, she’s a part of one of the intramural flag football teams on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.  She prides on the fact that her team has been undefeated in the last three years. “This year, our goal is to beat Texas Tech in the regional championship,” said Freeney.

            Although she’s a fantastic athlete, Freeney has a fiery passion for writing. She is a public relations major with a minor in creative writing. She loves poetry and has been writing it for years.  Freeney says, “I also have a love for songwriting.” She hopes that her writing career will launch and she will be discovered as a songwriter. According to Freeney, ”The west coast is where dreams are brewed.” She wants to move to California and hopes to make connections with entertainers.

            She shouldn’t have a problem with being successful. As a young girl Freeney had the gift of being a talented writer. When she was a little girl, she wrote her first poem for a class assignment. She presented it to her teacher in hopes of getting positive feedback. Her teacher accused her of plagiarizing and searched for Freeney’s poem on the internet and in several books but her search came up empty. When she found out that it was in fact a creative poem that Freeney had actually written herself, the teacher apologized and granted Freeney the title of a little writer prodigy. After that, “I entered various poetry contests and won many of them.”

            Along with her other talents, Freeney adds to the list a skill for playing violin. She started playing as a fourth grader in elementary school and still enjoys playing on her free time. She says that one of her biggest accomplishments was being first chair violinist in middle school. In high school, her violin playing was put on a hiatus, which she regrets. “I didn’t want people to think I was a nerd,” Freeney said. However, she rediscovered her love for playing in recent years. She has such a love of music that she recently picked up guitar playing as well.

            Ten years from now, Freeney’s dream is to have a published book of poems to inspire youth and sees herself writing and living in California.