Teams in baseball, softball, girls soccer and boys soccer begin high school playoffs today.

It would be easy to say the high school career of Hanover senior softball player Amanda Woolard has taken a downward spiral. The expected path of most players has them starting off on a young, struggling team as a freshman then they win a state championship as an experienced senior. The opposite holds true for Woolard. As a freshman, Woolard was the starting left fielder on the Hawks’ 2006 AAA state championship team. The only path for Woolard to take was a descent from that highlight moment.