• Varsity Soccer Team


• High school soccer was something that I was terribly afraid of trying my freshman year--- the only reason I joined as a sophomore was because of my best friend, Kate, who has played all her life. I discovered that I loved the sport--- I started my sophomo

• Member of National Honor Society


• National Honor Society is a very enjoyable club for me. I love going out and helping my community, and have too much going to simply plan a trip and go alone. In NHS, the club as a whole gets along very well, so we strive to complete throughly each opport

• Representative and Vice President for Student Council


• Student Council is something, at my school, that no one really recognized or cared about. Our job as a whole is to better our school with service projects, and basically help run it by setting up pep rallies, ordering t-shirts for our class, raising money

• Business Sales


• I love Yearbook, as all of the year's memories are compiled into one book to stare and marvel at for years to come. My job is to sort and count the money from yearbook and baby ad sales, and also write checks and receipts for businesses and the students w

• Photography


• I have been taking pictures since the age of five, when I got my first camera for Christmas. It is not really a chore, persay, but more of a hobby. I have to take pictures at some of the school's events anyhow for yearbook, and once I realized how fun it

• Fellowship of Christian Athletes


• I absolutely love FCA. I go to a public school, so not many opportunities arise for me to truly reach out to others in a spiritual way; I'm not very surrounded by other Christians either. FCA granted me this opportunity--- anyone is welcome to our meeting

• Helping Eagles


• Helping Eagles is a community service club exclusively at our school to help raise money for families in desperate need of financing for medical bills or any other hardship of the sort. I really love helping people, so Helping Eagles really allowed me to

• Yearbook - Write-Ups


• In yearbook class, I write about the on-going events of our school, homecoming, the senior class, to a variety of other things. When deadlines arise, I have to work very hard to ensure that each page has their own special write-up.

• Service Learning Tutor


• I absolutely love working with disadvantaged students and helping them grow inside and out of the classroom. For my fourth period this semester, I have gone to the middle school to tutor fifth and sixth graders who need help in certain subjects, usually M

• Writing


• Writing is one of my many passions, but it's higher up on my list. I have started numerous novels and short stories, but I can't ever seem to finish them. I always find a better idea and run away with that. When I finally find order in my life, perhaps af

• Trash Clean Up


• TDOT sponsored a highway clean up in April for my school, Sycamore High. We went along a three mile (and busy) highway trek and picked up countless trashbags of litter. We found some awesome trash!

• Wilson Benefit


• Helping Eagles (a club that financially helps students) and NHS teamed up in February to assist a former student w/ Cancer. We sold chili, t-shirts, and had a rival football game.

• Ronald McDonald House


• During a summer program, the other attendees and I worked at the Ronald McDonald House. We cleaned the entire house and met some of the children. it was a very rewarding experience.

• Homeless Shelter


• Two of my friends and I decided to help out a local homeless shelter for a few Saturdays--- an aunt is in league with Baptist Hospital, who sponsors it. We helped them with medical forms and greeting.

• Service Learning


• Every day, I go to the middle school. While there, I tutor children in math, reading, science, and history. It's a very rewarding experience. I can tutor from 1 to 8 children on an given day at once.

• Fall Festival


• Every year our school holds a Fall Festival, a a carnival where I helped set up boths and hand out candy to the children who came.

• Blood Drive II


• Helping Eagles held their bi-annual blood drive once again this semester, and I stepped up to help sign people in, read the instruction for pre/post donation, handed out snacks, and gave blood too.

• Blood Drive I


• Last year, Helping Eagles decided to once again host a blood drive to benefit those who need blood. I participated by handing out snacks, signing people in, and greeting.

• Trash Clean-Up II


• Student Council performed their second ever trash clean-up, and it didn't go as planned. Only seven members showed, making it a very long two mile trek of clean up. But we did it!

• Summer Scholars Program


• Lipscomb University offered a program for rising high school seniors from July 10th to the 19th and I jumped at the chance. I took a college course, Business, and earned three hours of credit while living in the dorms and living the complete college life.

• Varsity Soccer Team


• For two years (2008 & 2009), I have been the captain of my soccer team. Not only do I send out mass text messages of reminders of practices, games, and what color jerseys to wear, but I also tutor any players who may need help with keeping their grades up

• Student Government


• I was given the opportunity to run for Student Council and chose to be a representative. I ran, and won. I helped assist the other members with various things, such as finding students to play games in pep rallies, coming up with those games, and organizi

• Student Government


• I am the Vice President of Student Council during my senior year, and I will assist the other members, especially student body prez and senior prez, with anything that needs to be done. As of yet, I have helped organize our Fall Festival, ordered county-w

• Cheatham County Board Representative


• On the side of student government (I'm the vice president of our senior class), there were also other jobs, such as historian and board representative. I was voted the latter, and will serve my school by attending the monthly board meetings, speaking up a

• Safe Haven Family Shelter


• I wanted to do more than my required service hours for Student Government, so I decided to join volunteermatch.com and find volunteer opportunities in my area. What really interested me was Safe Haven.They are a small, Christian organization that helps ho

• Trash Clean-Up III


• On March 6th, a few student council members and I completed our third trash clean up along a three mile stretch of highway bordering our school. It is astounding what kind of trash (and how much) people can throw out of their cars. We found packages of ci

• Prom Committee


• On March 12, 2010, my school partnered with Bridal Warehouse to showcase dresses and get everyone excited about prom. The whole school bought $2 tickets to raise money, and then a group of about twenty senior girls and guys were chosen to participate. I w

• Habitat for Humanity


• On Saturday, March 13, 2010, I awoke at 5:30 and drove out to the subdivision built completely by Habitat for Humanity with a friend. Together with a group of twenty other volunteers, gathered from various companies and high schools, we put the finishing