Glen Smithberger's student profile

Glen Smithberger

West Virginia University Class of 2014

SCOTT DEPOT, WV

www.zinch.com/glen-smithberger

I'm a college kid focusing on sports & academics.
18 and a senior at Winfield High School. Defender for my school's soccer team,#25. At WHS, I'm a member of academic team, link crew, and the bowling team. I'm VP of NHS and student council and secretary of mu alpha theta and SADD. I'm on the announcements. I'm an Eagle Scout of the BSA and Catholic. I love playing ultimate, ping pong, and racquetball. I have a "bucket list", book smarts, and love sarcasm. Rudy is my favorite movie. To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, and The Kite Runner are great books. My dream job is teaching high school math and without my best friends, I'm nothin

Extracurricular

youth league

I pitched and played second base.

youth league

My team was the league and tournament champions.

High school team

It was the junior varsity soccer team. I played defense and started some games as a sophomore.

B-team

We have two teams an A and a B and I'm on the B team. It's my first year doing it. We have been to a couple tournaments and in our second tournament my team got 4th out of 17 jv teams. In one tournament we got 9th out of all teams, including varsity. We

Eagle Scout

I became an eagle scout this year. I built six benches and a deck for a pond at a local park. People use the benches to sit on when they fish and the deck is handicap accesible.

Spanish Club

A club for people that want to promote the spanish language. As a sophomore I was just in it and went to the different activities we had. Now, as a junior, I am the Vice President and we are going to be more active and involved in the school. We are tryin

Youth Alive

Its a club for Christians and we talk about different things we can do to help the community and just meet and share things about our religion.

Putnam county math field day

You have a math competition to see who knows the most about math. It's between the four high schools in our county. As a sophomore my school won the trophy for the best team of ten people. The trophy has existed for nine years. Winfield, my school, had it

WV state bowling competition

I am a member of my high school's bowling team. We are competing in the state tournament on the 14th of February. My school had two teams of 4 in the competition at Emerson Lanes in Parkersburg. My team of four did a lot better than we were figured to do

varsity team

I play right back on my school's varsity team. We play a diamond defense. I start varsity and I play both halves as well as play a half of jv because there are not enough jv players. So I get the maximum time a night, 3 halves or 120 mintues.

A-team

As a sophomore I was on the B-team and we did good for most of us not having participated in competitions before and now I'm a junior on the A-team. There are only 2 seniors and 8 juniors so the two seniors and 3 juniors are going to be on A-team with the

Being a member

I was inducted into the national honor society on November 24, 2009.

SADD

I joined SADD this year at my school. SADD is basically students against destructive decisions. That means we basically try and promote no drinking, no smoking, driving safely, wear your seat belt, and any other safety thing that could help students stay

Eagle Scout

I volunteered doing my eagle project, various other eagle projects, and other scout projects that my troop participates in.

volunteered at Christ Kitchen

I volunteered for about 4 hours, which is the time that they are open. They serve people who can't afford meals, hot meals.

Volunteered at community cupboard

I helped move food from a truck to freezers and other places around the building. They provide canned food and other boxes, and foods to people that can't afford it.

I volunteered at a cub scout day camp

I worked a station for a week, 40 hours total. I taught cub scouts different sports and did some other activities.

I volunteered at a cub scout day camp

I worked a station for a week, 40 hours total. I taught cub scouts different sports and did some other activities.

volunteered working concession stand

I worked concessions at Marshall University during the opening ceremony for the Region1 Soccer Tournament. I got food for the customers as people took their orders. Profits helped my WHS soccer team.

my scout troop

The Senior Patrol leader is the boy that leads the troop. I lead the troop while at summer camp, and other various campouts that we went to. I led the meetings that we had every week for 6 months.

Parkersburg Catholic Competition

I was in charge of the B team during this competition. We got 4th out of 17 different jv teams.

Ripley High Meet

I led the B team during this meet and we placed 9th. That was out of Varsity and JV teams.

spanish club

I am vice president of my school's spanish club. We currently only have 5 members that came to the first meeting but we are trying to get more people to come to the meetings. In spanish club we just promote the spanish language, we don't talk spanish. We

Education

High School

Winfield High School

College

West Virginia University

Honors & Awards

Fastest Average time for Blink (card game) among boy scout troops

I am vice president of my school's spanish club. (junior year)

I am an Eagle Scout with 4 palms

I have had perfect attendance for the first three years of

Specialties & Skills

You registered online and played a card game called Blink. There were cards and you played someone else and you timed your game to see how fast you could get rid of your cards. If you won, that was your fastest time. You recorded it online and you could w

Info

Basic

Last Update:
May 15, 2012
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
June 26
Religious:
Catholic
Military:
No Affiliation

Background

Ethnicity:
Caucasian or White
Heritage:
German
Citizenship:
US Citizen
Fluent Language:
English
Hometown:
SCOTT DEPOT

Interests

Education
Teaching
Basketball
Math
Boy Scouts
Frisbee
Mu Alpha Theta
NHS - National Honor Society
Soccer
Sports
Tennis

Favorites

Movies:
21, Avatar, Bourne Series, Click, Coach Carter, Con Air, Glory Road, Hitch, Last Samurai, National Treasure, Pay it Forward, The Prestige, Rudy, School of Rock, Seven Pounds, Shrek, Stick it, Slumdog Millionaire, Transporter series, Vantage Point, and We
TV Shows:
Recess, sportscenter, Doug, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Fillmore, Two And A Half Men, Survivor, The Buried Life, My Wife And Kids, Las Vegas, Bernie Mac show, Boy Meets World and College Gameday. My favorite tv show from when I was young was Doug and Le
Music:
Anberlin, Big&Rich, Breaking Benjamin, Casting Crowns, Dashboard Confessional, Daughtry, Kris Allen, Matchbox Twenty, Rascal Flatts, Rise Against, The Script, Shinedown, Skillet, and Switchfoot. I grew up with Country but now I listen to pretty much all
Websites:
Usually I'm on myspace or facebook and if I'm not there than I'm probably looking at sports scores to see how my teams are doing and just see if there are any upsets.
Quotes:
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." -Steve Prefontaine
"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.-Lou Holtz
"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate
Books:
The Kite Runner, 23 Minutes in Hell, The Outsiders, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Skin Hunger, Quiet Strength, and To Kill a Mockingbird. My favorite though is probably To Kill a Mockingbird. Its one of those books that you can read a couple times and s