Senior Brinn Hardt earned her second Guam Interscholastic Sports Association MVP award in three years. She played for George Washington this season when Guam High failed to field enough players for a team. (George Washington softball)

Guam High School didn’t have enough players to field a team. So in the days leading up to the island season, it was a question not of whether Brinnlyn Hardt would play her favorite sport.

The fireballing senior right-hander did find a spot, with George Washington of Guam’s Interscholastic Sports Association. And not only did she play, she starred for the Geckos and earned her second ISA Most Valuable Player award, on the heels of the one she got as a sophomore.

“It was more like nerves” than whether she was ready to play, Hardt said by phone Thursday. “I didn’t know a single player. But several players were very welcoming, so I had nothing to worry about.”

And Hardt had a season typical of her play the previous two years, when she led the Panthers to two straight ISA finals appearances, winning in her sophomore season two years ago.

For the Geckos, Hardt went 5-1 and struck out 51 batters in 23 innings; all but one game GW played was shortened by the league’s mercy rule.

“I didn’t expect to get it,” Hardt said of being named MVP, done by league coaches’ vote.

That was on top of a 2024 regular season in which Hardt went 6-0, striking out 92 batters in 46 innings. In 2023, she went 7-0 and struck out 59 batters in 30 innings. In three seasons, she totaled 202 strikeouts in 99 innings.

Hardt and her family are expecting to transfer to Okinawa following Hardt’s graduation from Guam High and Brinn says she’s hoping to become an assistant for one of the high school or youth club teams.