It hasn’t been a problem in the Hoose family.

Gianna, the youngest daughter of Joe and Johneen, is the latest example.

Last Thursday, the Southwestern senior signed her national letter of intent to attend Binghamton University in the fall and throw for the Bearcats track and field team.

“I knew I wanted to go Division I if I could,” said Gianna, who also had interest from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Stony Brook University. “Binghamton was a super match with academics and has a strong business program.”

Gianna Hoose P-J file photo by Tim Frank

This spring, Binghamton was scheduled to run all over the East Coast, including meets in Boston; Charlottesville, Virginia; Burlington, Vermont; Philadelphia; and Princeton, New Jersey; before possible regionals in Lexington, Kentucky and nationals in Austin, Texas.

“Their track coach and I started talking in the fall and we’d been going back and forth since then,” Gianna said Friday evening. “They have a super-good throwing program there. I talked to Coach (Adam) Brown about it and we discussed the pros and cons. … Then I decided it was the best school.”

Gianna will continue to throw discus while likely picking up the hammer throw and a little bit of the weight throw.

“We have four discuses so my dad and I have been going out to throw as much as we can,” Gianna said. ” … We haven’t measured anything, we’re just working on technique.”

The commitment comes at a time when it is looking more and more likely New York state high schools will not return to the classroom this spring, thus ending the high school careers for senior athletes.

Southwestern’s Gianna Hoose signs her national letter of intent to attend Binghamton University on Thursday surrounded by family, from left: Dontae, Johneen, Joe, Neves and Mason. Submitted photo

If the commitment is Gianna’s last milestone at Southwestern, it will cap an impressive high school career.

The fourth of eight siblings — who are all home during the coronavirus pandemic — she swam in her early high school years before picking up soccer.

“When she came in during ninth grade, I didn’t know what to expect,” said Brown, the Trojans’ throwing coach. “She had a big meet at Fredonia and things kind of took off from there. She threw 96 or 97 feet in the first month of her freshman year.”

But Gianna made her mark in the throwing events last spring and on the basketball court this winter.

Last spring, she won the discus with a throw of 108 feet, 7 inches and took third in the shot put with a toss of 31 feet, 6 1/2 inches at the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Championships.

Southwestern’s Gianna Hoose threw the discus 110 feet at last spring’s New York State Public High School Athletic Association Championships. P-J file photo by Tim Frank

She followed that up with a first-place finish in the discus at the Section VI state qualifier with a heave of 106 feet, 11 inches.

“She’s not built like a typical thrower,” Brown said. “She has a combination of athleticism and technique.”

Hoose carried that on to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association State Championships where she took sixth in the Division II discus with a throw of 110 feet.

She then made a huge jump from her junior to senior years on the basketball court. In leading the Trojans to their third straight Section VI Class B-2 championship, Hoose averaged 16 points and 7.2 rebounds per game en route to being named a Post-Journal Second-Team All-Star.

“I watched her play basketball with that determination and that talent. It’s the same in track with the discus and shot put,” said Jay Sirianni, Southwestern track and field coach. “That determination, that hard work and that talent … that leads you to scholarships.”

That jump in her final year on the basketball court had Brown excited to see what she could do in the throwing events this spring at the Fran Sirianni Athletic Complex.

“She’s gotten so much stronger from last year to this year,” said Brown, who’s been with the program since 2000. “She got home from states last year at 1 in the morning and started lifting the next day.”

“Not throwing this season would be awful. … I did some offseason throwing in hopes of winning this year,” Gianna said. “That was my goal. That’s been my goal since I started track.”

With such impressive siblings coming before and after her, it could’ve been easy for Gianna to get lost in the crowd.

Oldest brother Tanner, a 2014 graduate, was a two-time New York State Sportswriters Association all-state kicker for the Trojans before moving on to Kent State University in Ohio. Older sister Gabriella put together an impressive throwing career at Southwestern before graduating in 2015 and taking her talents to SUNY Brockport.

“I got into it because of my sister and we’ve always been pretty close,” Gianna said. “I saw her throwing and thought it was pretty cool so I decided to try it myself.”

Mason played football at Southwestern through his sophomore year before finishing his high school career in 2017 at Canisius in Buffalo. A two-time state place finisher in wrestling, he then moved on to NCAA Division I football and is currently at the University of Jacksonville. Giuseppe graduated from Southwestern in 2018 with a Frank Hyde Memorial Scholarship and Ilio DiPaolo Award to his name. He currently wrestles for Division I Hofstra.

Even after Gianna there are three more Hoose siblings that will look to make their marks on the local athletics seen.

Just last month Dontae, a sophomore, was named The Post-Journal’s Wrestler of the Year after a Section VI title and a sixth-place finish at the state tournament while Neves and Tavio are currently middle school students in the Southwestern system.

“After coaching (Gabriella) a little bit, you quickly realize if you have a Hoose, you are going to get 100 percent out of those kids,” Brown said. “It’s not going to be from a lack of effort if they aren’t successful. They will give everything they possibly can and then some.”

And all of the Hooses have used their sibling rivalry as a positive.

“I have a really supportive family and all of us are really athletic,” Gianna said. “I’m kind of inspired by my siblings.”