Dreya Roberts is a 2nd year student at Morningside. Dreya graduated from a large high school in Lincoln, Nebraska in 2020. After graduation she chose to take a gap year before coming to Morningside. Dreya told me in our interview that she was worried about not being on the “right” path- finish high school, then go to college, then get a job. She stated that she soon realized “it doesn’t fucking matter” and in the end was glad that she took the year off. During her year off she worked at a local coffee shop and lived with her parents and brothers at home. Dreya is the oldest sister in a family of three younger brothers and one foster brother. She let me know that she didn’t mind being the only girl growing up. Dreya’s family has two dogs. Abby is her favorite, but she loves Cal too.
Dreya started playing softball in kindergarten and even played some in college. Her most recent position was 3rd base, but she is a versatile player. Her love of softball and athletics as a whole led her to studying sports information at Morningside. Dreya is not completely sure what she wants to do when she graduates, but she has toyed with the idea of going to graduate school to become an athletic trainer. Some other possible routes include coaching softball, being an athletic director at a high school, or working with a semi-pro softball team.
Dreya works in the radio station on campus, tutors students in anatomy and works at the floral shop at Hyvee. Even with all these jobs, Dreya finds time to educate her friends and family on commonly unknown facts about anything and everything. One she shared with me is that babies are born without kneecaps.