“We are closer to each other because we have been with each other since birth and have grown up together,” Alana said.
Alana Plaszcz rarely lets her sister, Brook, know that she loves her. The girls are usually yelling at each other in the kitchen about making lunches or across a classroom about who is right and who is wrong. Today the girls show their competitive but sweet sides.
Alana and Brook Plaszcz spend each and every day together. The twins have spent a lifetime together and will continue to make a lifetime full of memories. The two were competitively raised in Elk Mound, Wisconsin, and never fail to have the smallest competitions throughout the day.
“Before I go to sleep I’m always thinking about a race or game… and how I can win,” states Alana.
Each morning their routine is consistent and close to a duplicate of the morning before. The girls get up in a certain rhythm and work around each other, only bickering slightly, so they get to where they need to go for another day together.
“I have the alarm on my iPod and Lana can hear it, so we both are up at the same time,” Brook said.
The first competition of the day usually comes when Alana and Brook put on similar outfits.
“If we do [put on the same outfit] we yell at one another until one of us changes,” Alana claimed.
Alana felt the need to add that she always wins that argument, but Brook had a different claim saying that “Lana doesn’t win.” When they finally make up their minds on what to wear, they eat breakfast and make lunches before heading off to school. Once they get to school they usually have classes together.
“Freshman year was pretty much the same [schedule], Sophomore year we had the same classes just at different times. Now at the beginning of this year we didn’t have the same classes, but the last half [of the year] all of our classes have been the same,” Brook said.
Living together just isn’t enough for these two, so they take the same classes. They only do this because it makes homework and time management easier on both of them.
Alana says, “It is nice to ask questions if I don’t get something and she gets it, and if I don’t want to do the homework I can look at Brook’s.”
After school the twins participate in sports. They both are three sport athletes, which consist of cross country, basketball, and track. Seeing both their parents were athletes, the twins had no choice but to be competitive athletes. They play the same sports because being in different sports wasn’t a choice.
“Our parents told us it would be too hard to drive us to different sports,” Brook said.
As many can imagine the twins are just as competitive in sports as they are about their outfits and grades. They compete with each other and against others. Alana and Brook’s competitiveness helps them both strive to do better, whether it’s to beat other people or each other.
For example, Brook and Alana play one team sport (basketball), they work together in this aspect. In cross country and track the two are always trying to beat each other's times. Though they are ambitious to beat each other, they will always encourage their sister no matter what.
“We get what one other is going through,” Brook states.
The fact that they are both girls makes it easier for the twins to connect even more. They both plan to attend college to further their education, but this might change how the girls function in their lives.
Brook said, “We are not going to the same college, but I pretty sure we will both go to college in Wisconsin. We will still see each other just not as often. I will have to learn how to study by myself and actually do the whole assignment.”