Why Page softball's Adriana Callahan, a Stanford signee, is fascinated by neuroscience

Page High School senior and Stanford signee Adriana Callahan is a TSSAA softball standout and plans to pursue neuroscience.Callahan's interest in neuroscience began with a high school psychology course and dissecting a sheep brain.Callahan chose Stanford over Tennessee and Missouri to pursue her academic goals.BRENTWOOD — Softball was Page senior Adriana Callahan’s first love.Her dad, Ryan, played baseball collegiately at Ohio and had a stint with the Red Sox organization. As soon as his daughter was old enough, he gave her a store-bought plastic bat-and-ball set to see if she had the same gene.Callahan had it, all right.But Callahan, a Stanford softball signee, knew long before her senior TSSAA softball season and commitment to Stanford that she had another fascination — nothing too complicated, just the brain and its relation to the nervous system.“I’ve known for a while that I want to work in neuroscience,” Callahan said. “(At Stanford), I’ll major in either human biology or symboli...