CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Sometimes it can be as simple as trying out a sport and seeing if it’s a good fit.

For Brooke Brewer, an accomplished soccer player as far back as when she was 8, wrestling and tennis have come as naturally to her as her initial sport.

The Kadena junior captured the DODEA-Okinawa girls singles tournament title in her second tennis season back last fall. She then took on wrestling this winter and became an island champion there as well, going unbeaten in the regular season against Kubasaki, all by pin.

And Brewer came out victorious in what came as close to a girls Far East meet as it got this winter – taking the 145-pound title in the “Beast of the Far East” tournament at St. Mary’s in Tokyo. She won all five of her bouts by pin, giving her a 14-0 season record.

“She’s a competitor. Plain and simple,” said her wrestling coach, Joey Wood, a former wrestler at Nile C. Kinnick in the mid-2000s who also coached Brewer in soccer last spring.

For all her accomplishments, Brewer has been named Stars and Stripes Pacific girls wrestling Athlete of the Year.

Brewer beat out competitors such as her teammate Jasmine Kenney, Kinnick’s Julia Blackwell and American School In Japan’s Serena Koslow, who was named Outstanding Wrestler of the “Beast” tournament.

Girls wrestling officially became a DODEA-Pacific sport this school year, with Kadena and Kubasaki selected as two pilot programs. Along the way, Kinnick joined them, giving the Pacific six girls wrestling teams, including Guam High, ASIJ and Seisen of Tokyo.

“I knew it was a new sport and I definitely felt I had a chance to do well because it was new,” Brewer said.

It didn’t take much for Wood to recruit Brewer to wrestle, given that she had played for him and the Panthers girls soccer team the previous two springs.

“Coach definitely helped me figure out new positions for soccer,” Brewer said of Wood.

Once on the mat, Brewer took to it in a manner belying the fact that she was just in her first season. Most of her victories came in the first period, some in the first minute.

Was she nervous at all taking on a new sport?

“I was hoping I wouldn’t lose,” Brewer said, adding that like tennis, wrestling is in many ways mental.

“You get your head in the right space, be calm and not be too nervous,” she said, adding that both Wood and her tennis coach, Shawn Ryan, were helpful with her gaining the right mindset.

Perhaps the biggest challenge, Brewer said, was preparing for the “Beast” tournament at St. Mary’s. It would include wrestlers she’d not seen and was impactful enough that she, her teammates and Wood all viewed it as their version of a Far East.

“That’s what coach was preaching to us, that it was our Far East,” Brewer said.

And she didn’t waste time winning all five of her bouts, with all lasting less than a minute.

“It gave me a lot of confidence,” Brewer said of the takeaways from “Beast.” “You never know what’s going to happen, who you’re going to face … I was thinking I had a good chance.”

Wood described Brewer’s style as relentless.

“When it comes to competition, there’s no stand down from Brooke,” Wood said. “In the hallways, she’s one of the most positive and respectful kids, but when she steps on the mat, the beast comes out. I absolutely loved coaching her up in wrestling.”

Whether Brewer comes back out for wrestling next year is up in the air, she said. “I’m definitely thinking about it.”

The Brewer file

Brooke Brewer

Age — 15

Hometown — Tampa, Fla.

Other sports besides wrestling — Tennis, soccer, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, cross country.

Favorite school subject — Math.

Least favorite school subject — English.

Favorite form of media entertainment — Video clips on YouTube.

Favorite athlete — Cristiano Ronaldo.

Favorite entertainer — John Mayer.