UPDATED WITH STORY: Central Catholic's Fuhrer signs Nicholls track letter

Who knew that tagging along with Dad could be a ticket to collegiate athletics?
That’s the way life worked out for Central Catholic track athlete Charlie Ann Fuhrer, who signed a letter of intent as a preferred walk-on Monday with Nicholls State.
She’s the daughter of Joellen and CCHS track coach David Fuhrer of Berwick.
David Fuhrer remembers his daughter’s introduction to the javelin.
“She would come to practice with me after school when she was in the sixth and seventh grade,” he said. “She played softball and she had a strong arm.”
“I didn’t know what the javelin was or how to do it,” Charlie Ann Fuhrer remembers.
But she began working with senior Ava Nicar.
“She really took me under her wing,” the new Nicholls signee said.
Her seventh-grade efforts weren’t good enough to make the high school team for the Class 1A Eagles. But she came back stronger for her eighth-grade year and competed with the high school team.
Fuhrer also paid Nicar’s help forward by working with sophomore Ava Vaccarella this year.
Fuhrer was disappointed with her eighth-place finish in the state Class 1A championships this year. But she had a personal best of 108 feet 11 inches.
She plans to study business administration at Nicholls with a concentration in pre-law and hopes of becoming an attorney.
Nicholls State track returns to Houston Thursday through Saturday for the 2024 Southland Outdoor Championships.
They recently competed in the J. Fred Duckett Twilight at Rice University.
In the javelin, Nicholls’ Amiya Matthews took ninth in the woman’s javelin with a 115.78.