What clubs/athletics/extracurriculars have you been involved in? In middle school, I played every sport I could. In high school, I've played soccer and golf, and I also play lead guitar with MPPACT and I'm the ASB Sargeant at Arms.
What is one positive memory from your time here that you’ll carry with you forever? In elementary school (I was 7 years old), we were playing soccer against Orcas. Orcas was talking trash because their high school team beat our high school team. I carried the game, scored a few goals, and we tied. My memory is of me kicking the ball and then doing a knee slide celebration because I had just watched the World Cup.
What is the best piece of advice you have received from a teacher? Richard Carter tells us, "Do the first thing first, the second thing second, etc. Don’t get ahead of yourself."
Finish this sentence: “I cannot live without…….”: Guitar, family, and knowing that there are always new things I can learn.
What is the most creative excuse you have ever used to get out of school work? I have trained my brain to forget the lies I’ve told, so when teachers ask me about it later, I can act convincingly...like I honestly don’t know or forgot.
What is one piece of advice for incoming high school students? Keep on track of your work. Try to meet the deadline a week before it’s due, so you have plenty of time.
What is the most meaningful assignment ever given to you by a teacher? In Mr. Tetu’s 9th grade English class, we had an assignment to interview a community member. My essay from that interview wasn’t very good, but the skill of interviewing has been useful in other assignments after that.
What’s the most important quality in a friendship? Why? Being present for friends during good times and bad. You can figure out who your real friends are when things aren’t going well.
In 10 years, I will be…: I hope I’ll have graduated from college and am pursuing whatever job I need to get to a higher level. I hope I’m doing something with music.
Who/what do you find inspiring? I find Tiger Woods inspiring because he has gone through his life playing a rich white people sport. He has come back strong from multiple injuries and surgeries.
What song summarizes your feelings about graduating from high school? Stop this Train by John Mayer. It's a song about a guy who is sort of afraid of growing up, but eventually realizes that he doesn’t actually want to stop the train because he wants to grow up after all.
What are your plans after high school? I want to go to either the University of Washington or Western Washington and study music and business.
Is there anything else you want people to know about you? I think having a mindset of helping others even when it doesn’t benefit you is part of the Lopez way, and this should be continued no matter who is teaching here.
