As Benet’s Emma Briggs begins her senior year, she still requires a ride to school every day.

But she knows exactly where she’s going.

“I was giving her grief about not having her driver’s license yet,” Benet coach Joe Kilbride said. “She’s young for her class, but she’s always been very mature. She’s very well-spoken and emotionally mature.”

Briggs won’t turn 17 until December, but the versatile 6-footer already has her life plan mapped out.

“I think that being a basketball player, we are always very prone to injuries,” she said. “We are always aware of that, so I want to be an orthopedic surgeon. I want to be a part of other athletes’ recovery from basketball injuries.”

So Briggs considered academics in her search for a Division I program, and she committed to Furman this week.

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