Paisley Binswanger named the ABC7 Athlete of the Month for January

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - This week we present to you our ABC7 Athlete of the Month for January. The honor goes to Sarasota High School’s (SHS) Paisley Binswanger.

She’s a senior and superstar on the basketball court and classroom for the Lady Sailors. The regular season is over and the District’s tournament is underway. It’s her last ride with the Lady Sailors program. She has one goal in mind to close this chapter out.

“We’ve got to get two wins this week, tomorrow [Wednesday] and Friday,” Binswanger said. “Then it’s into regionals. Hopefully, we can make it pretty far into that too. Districts right now is what I’m focused on.”

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It’s been an eventful past month for her. She recently became SHS’s girls basketball program’s all-time leading scorer. It’s an accomplishment that she says she didn’t know that she was so close to achieving.

“It’s surreal,” Binswanger said. “A lot of this is like still catching up to me I think.”

Her success goes beyond the hardwood though. Binswanger makes it a commitment to get it done in the classroom too. She’s been a straight A student since she was in kindergarten.

Her head coach, Sara Nuxol, tells ABC7 that Binswanger is one of a kind. “Paisley deserves everything,” Nuxol said. “She’s earned it. If I could bottle her up and have 10 to 1 players like her, I’d be good.”

For all that hard work that she keeps putting in we had a surprise for Binswanger. ABC7 partnering with Carl Reynolds Law to present Paisley with a check in the amount of $500 for being a prime example of what a student-athlete is supposed to be.

This moment is also the icing on the cake for Paisley on a day is already about her. It’s her 18th birthday, but Binswanger wants to share the moments with everyone who is apart of her life and she has a message for them.

“You can do anything you set your mind to,” Binswanger said. “I had goals coming into high school. Whatever you work for you can achieve.”

We’ll keep you updated on how Binswanger and the Lady Sailors play the rest of the way. Tune in later this month when we select the Athlete of the Month for February.