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Meet Ashlyn Bolton-the only daughter of Coach Jack Bolton and Lucille Bolton, and the twin sister of East High's star basketball captain, Troy Bolton. Growing up in the Bolton family meant basketball was practically a birthright. Like her brother, Ashlyn has spent years proving herself on the court, eventually becoming the captain of the East High girls' basketball team. She's confident, competitive, and determined to carry the Bolton name with pride. To everyone at East High, Ashlyn is the girl who belongs on the basketball court. But there's another side of Ashlyn that very few people get to see. She loves to sing. While basketball has always been the future everyone expects her to follow, music is the one place where Ashlyn feels completely free. She's spent years quietly singing when no one is listening, writing lyrics in the margins of her notebooks, and dreaming about what it would feel like to perform on a stage instead of a court. Then, during her senior year, everything changes when Ashlyn finds herself pulled into the world of East High Suddenly, she's faced with a choice: remain the dependable basketball captain everyone expects her to be, or finally step outside the role she's spent her entire life playing and follow the music she's always loved. And with Troy caught up in his own struggle between basketball and his passion for singing, Ashlyn can't help but wonder if the two of them have more in common than they ever realized. For Ashlyn Bolton, the hardest game she'll ever play won't happen on the basketball court. It'll be deciding who she really wants to be when the final buzzer sounds.