Thomas+O.

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My life for the past four years at Green Hope High school has been full of positive experiences. Participating in sports was an important factor that helped me to make friends as well as get involved in school activities.

Running on the Cross Country team helped me to meet a lot of new people from school and learn how to manage my school work with having other responsibilities. Cross Country made a lot of good friends and always had the best pasta parties. After running on the team for three years I was a team captain senior year. Although leading a group of over 100 runners is a large task, it was a good experience that taught leadership skills along with an opportunity to be an important part of the team.

Probably the biggest part of my life at Green Hope was playing on the basketball team. To be one of 15 people in the whole school to make the basketball team was pretty important to me. Playing basketball has always been a big part of my life, and the opportunity to play for my school, often times in front of a packed gym full of students is something that I wouldn’t trade for anything. The experiences I’ve had playing basketball for Green Hope with my friends are something that I’ve always enjoyed about school over the years. I will always remember playing basketball as one of the highlights of my high school years.

Throughout high school I tried to keep an academic priority, but towards my senior year my social life started to become more important. My grades are still important but I’ve tried to have more fun and live my life the way I want to.

Although high school is over and we’re now looking forward to a different part of life, high school is full of memories and experiences that I will always remember.