Cypress Springs girls basketball player Marsharae Brown received the MVP award at the Spring Branch ISD Girls Varsity Tournament Saturday after Cy Springs defeated Cypress Falls 50-40 in the championship game.

For her performance in that tournament and this season, she is the Athlete’s Connection College Ball or Bust.com All-Star Athlete of the Week.

“MVP. Wow. It feels great,” said Brown, a senior forward. “This is my first time winning the MVP.”

Brown is no stranger to winning an award. Last week at the Terry Tournament, she was named to the All-Tournament team.

 Brown has 86 points this season and averages over 14 points per game. She is the second-highest scorer on the team.

“She’s a go getter, obviously. She gets after it,” Cy Springs coach David Wicke said. “She’s a little on the silly side sometimes and that’s not always a bad thing. She makes things happen out on the court. She’s kind of the heart and soul of what we do.”

Brown began playing basketball in fifth-grade. She attended Eisenhower as a freshman and sophomore, then transferred to Cy Springs and has excelled there.

Brown also has played on summer select teams such as the Houston Cobras and Southwest Magic. A former volleyball player, Brown dropped that sport to concentrate on basketball.

Brown doesn’t have definite plans for immediately following graduation, but she knows what she wants to do and what will help her get it.

“I am thinking about going into the Air Force and then going to college. I want to be a police officer and I think it would be good for me to start in the Air Force,” Brown said. “I still want to play basketball, but in my spare time. I want to have my career going first. And after the Air Force, it (Air Force) will help me get into college and pay for it.”

But Brown’s focus right now is her senior year and district play.

“We want to be No. 1 in the district. But there are tough teams and we don’t want to take anybody for granted. We just want to play our game,” she said.

Cy Springs (16-3) will face tough teams in District 17-5A, including state-ranked Cy-Fair, the 2006-07 5A state runner-ups that Brown called “probably our toughest competition.”

But Cy Springs proved this weekend that they are a team to beat.

“We work hard. We still have times when we want to be goofy, but we do work hard. We know when we step onto the court, it’s game time,” Brown said. “And we communicate well with each other and try to do it in a positive way.”

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