Whether it's tennis or boys baseball, wrestling or basketball, quiet-spoken Blythe Bray has had a hand in it for Lehi City during the last few years.

After her internship, recreation and Legacy Center manager Dan Harrison decided to hire her full time.

"I think she has a very calm demeanor and she has the ability to separate the emotions of a situation and look at it appropriately and then make the correct decision," Harrison said. "She has a lot of integrity. She is willing to make difficult decisions even if she knows she'll be criticized."

Bray received statewide attention in 2007 when she and Harrison decided to bar Bill Doyle, a Lehi resident who had volunteered as a coach for 17 years, from coaching in Lehi City programs. His in-laws protested the decision by posting a large billboard near the freeway that read "Something stinks in Lehi's recreation department."

Bray and Harrison maintained reasons for not retaining him as a coach included yelling at league officials, cursing in front of children in public and circulating a petition criticizing the city's selection process for league team players.

Doyle denied yelling and cursing and said he felt the new selection policy was unfair.

Throughout, Bray's manner of handling herself received respect from several of her peers.

"She is a professional in the way she works with people," said Little League baseball supervisor Mark Hansen. "There are a lot of demands put on her as a rec director ... and I think she handles herself quite well."

He said he runs the ball park for her as well as managing Little League baseball and found in working with her that she was fairly knowledgeable about standard sports.

Bray's last day is Friday. Her husband Vaughn Bray is pursuing law school at Texas Tech and so they are moving to be near the campus. Lehi City has hired Matt Godfrey who worked in the South Jordan sports program.

"We worked hard to get her trained and now she's leaving us and we're going to miss her," said water facility director Kim Cooper. "She really is a good person."

"We tease her a little bit," Harrison said. "Kim teases her a lot ... she gets along well with the rest of the staff here."

Bray enjoyed sports as a child and went on to compete as a cheerleader at BYU. Each year for three years, she competed against some of the best cheerleaders in the state to win a spot on the BYU cheer team of 12 boys and 12 girls.

"It was a busy thing, but I enjoyed it," Bray said. "It's a very competitive (sport)."

She said she was "OK" at cheerleading. Her emphasis in study was recreation management which is how she ended up with an internship at the Legacy Center.

"It's been fun working here though I feel like I finally know what I'm doing in this position," Bray said. "That's why I'm sad about leaving because I feel like I finally have it down."