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Biography
Derria Edwards is a college student who has played basketball all her life. She recently led Peoria High Girls Basketball team to a Sectional final against Morton at Rock Island(Rock Island,Illinois). Edwards has also earned various awards from childhood AAU games all the way up until high school. AAU is a sports organization that helps kids up to the age of 18 to develop sports skills and encourage young ones to stay active

Childhood
Derria Edwards was born at Methodist hospital in Peoria,Illinois. She has six other siblings, two of them are boys and the other four are girls. Their names are Dyricus Edwards, Destini Edwards, Denali Craig-Edwards, Jarriah Berry, Dace Craig-Edwards, and Donika Craig-Edwards.Her biological parents are Tara Simms which is her mother and Demetrius Edwards being her Father. Her step-parents are Jamar berry which is her step-father and Kelly Craig -Edwards which is her step mother. Her biological father has six kids and her biological mother has four kids. Her parents split apart when she was a baby. During her childhood she was always around sports especially basketball. Her Brother and sister both played basketball growing up so she followed their footsteps and also played basketball in elementary school and middle school.

Home Life
In her home life she grew up around a lot of her family. She had a lot of family on both her mother and father side of the family. She has always said that she has two homes which she does, because her mother has a home and so does her father so she has a room at both houses. She lived at both houses at first, but then as she grew older she bounced back and fourth a lot from her father and mother house. Then in the end of freshman year of high school she decided to live with her mother and go visit her dad whenever she wanted to. growing up there is always a favorite cousin in the family, and she was always considered the favorite cousin on both sides of the family.In her family she was the Third oldest child on her dad side of the family and the third oldest on her mom side of the family. The youngest sibling on her father side of the family is Donika who is four years old, and the youngest sibling on her mom side of the family is Jarriah who is eleven years old. The oldest sibling in our family on both sides of the family is Dyricus which is all of our oldest brother.

Hobbies
Basketball is a hobby for her because it became a natural resource in her life. She grew up around basketball so much in her child hood, that she started having a routine everyday and began to enjoy the workouts and the drills and the consistency that was held during the times she played basketball. Basketball also became a hobby for her because she realized she was good at it and started to become better at it every single day. She decided to stick with playing basketball because it also kept her in shape and it was a fun sport to play.

Dance also became a hobby for her because that also was something that was done often in her household. Dance was something she did not enjoy until her older sister Destini introduced it to her. Destini was the dancer of the family, she was flexible, had very good technique, and the emotion of how dancers should be. The day her sister introduced her to dance, that is when she realized she loved dance. Her older sister began to build her own dance team in her community and Derria began to become a choreographer for her dance team. She became so good that her dances she made up one first place very often.

Education
For her education she went to four different schools throughout her life, those were Valeska Hinton, Franklin elementary school, Calvin Coolidge , and Peoria High. She went to Valeska Hinton for a early childhood education. She went to Franklin from first to fifth grade. also had all A's for all six years. She also went to Calvin Coolidge for three years, from sixth grade to eighth grade. She also went to Peoria High for Four years for high school. She did Avid since fifth grade, Avid is a program that helps children get ready for college. They help kids get better with organization, time management, and also writing better notes. Derria was smart her GPA was a 3.7 for all four years of high school. Derria was a student that took tough courses so she was able to become top 10 in her class. Derria is a smart worker and enjoyed school.

Current Life
Derria is now a college student who goes to ICC ( Illinois Central College). She majors in Human Resources, and hopes to become a coach one day. She took that path of life because basketball is what she loved to do, so she decided to follow her father foot-steps so hopefully one day she could take over his coaching spot at her old high school.