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Student spotlight for Jan. 29

THE OLYMPIAN • Published January 29, 2012

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Sadie Boyle

Age: 17

School: Olympia High School in Olympia.

Grade: 12.

Parent: Kelly Boyle.

Best personal achievement: Maintaining a 3.5 GPA while playing sports year round, taking Advanced Placement (AP) and honors classes and being a part of a peer education group.

How I spend my time: I don’t really have a lot of free time, but when I get it I spend time with my friends.

Favorite subjects: I really like math and social studies. My current two favorite classes are AP calculus and AP government and politics.

Favorite movie: “Hot Fuzz.”

Favorite book: I am a big “Harry Potter” fan.

Dream job: I don’t really know exactly what I want to do. However, I am thinking of studying engineering so probably a job in that field. I also would like to do something where I get to travel and work all over the world.

Someone I respect: I respect a lot of people, but I would say my mom, and my wrestling coaches John Willmarth, Rockey Isley and Brent Kabat, Ben Rogers and Kat Scheibner.

The hardest part of being a student is: Trying to get enough sleep.

My ambitions or career aspirations include: I want to get my Ph.D. and I want to be very good at my job, whatever it may be.

Someone famous I would like to meet: Amelia Earhart, so that I can ask what happened to her.

Someday, looking back on my life, I’ll be able to say: I don’t have any regrets, I worked hard at everything and I wasn’t afraid to try.

Biggest challenge facing teenagers today: Trying to get everything done, plus excel in extracurricular, spend time with my friends and still get sleep.

One thing in the world I would change if I could: I would change the way we get our energy and the way we produce our food from the start.

Nominated by: Wrestling coach John Willmarth, who wrote, “Sadie is one of the most serious and focused students I have met in my 50 years as a teacher, counselor, and coach. … She is only the second girl who has wrestled all four years for us. During that time, Sadie has earned the coaches’ admiration and respect as the hardest working, most dedicated wrestler on the team – boy or girl. … “Last summer she went to Washington, D.C., for the National Young Leaders Conference. Sadie also learned to play the cello and was in school orchestras for six years. Before deciding to focus primarily on wrestling and academics, Sadie took time to visit other sports. As a freshman she was on the fastpitch and swimming teams and competed in rowing during her sophomore and junior years. Later, she worked with a strength coach at one of the local gyms and ran on the cross-country team last fall to better prepare for wrestling. For such a serious and focused person, she has a great sense of humor and has a smile that lights up the room.”

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