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By Shanon QuinnDaily News staff writer

Sports was the center of the high school experi-ence for soft-spoken

Pullman High School senior Brian Field.

“I feel like I’ve just grown up playing sports and I have a lot of friends on the teams. I feel like I’ve been playing football forever,” Field said.

But football isn’t his only activity.

“My favorite sport was ten-

nis,” he said. “I was on var-sity as a sophomore. My team’s awesome — I love my team.”

Team sports will be on hia-tus for a time, as Field will leave the state this summer to spend about two years in Louisville, Ky., on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“I’m excited but a little nervous, too,” he said. “I have mixed emotions about it right now.”

Aside from serving his church, the trip will allow Field

some extra time to narrow down what he plans to study at Utah State University begin-ning in the fall of 2017.

“I’ll prob-ably major in mechanical engineering but I’m kind of thinking I kind of want to go into mate-rial science. Those are the frontrunners. But I have two years to decide that,” he said.

His choice of majors is the result of a transformation in academic interest that has taken place

during the past four years.Field said he struggled in

mathematics during his first year of high school.

“As a freshman I was slack-ing off and didn’t enjoy school much,” he said. “But after geometry — what I took freshman year — I started picking it up a little bet-ter. I’m just naturally good at math, I think.”

The math skills will come to good use during

the next two weeks — which for Field, can’t pass quickly enough.

“I’ve still got finals in chemis-try and precalculus,” Field said. “I just have to fight through senioritis really — it’s tough,”

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4A | Friday, May 22, 2015 | Moscow-PullMan Daily news Ready for the World

By Josh BabcockDaily News staff writer

Since first attending Pullman Christian School in eighth grade,

Christian Hancock has found himself on the basketball court during every break.

The times spent “shooting around” with his friends dur-ing lunch and even five min-ute breaks is one thing the 18-

year-old said he’ll miss most about his high school days.

“It’s not about winning. It’s about having fun with each other,” said Hancock, who is one of four seniors graduating from PCS this year.

Before high school Hancock didn’t play sports, but his family’s love for watching and playing basketball, and PCS’ close network of friends, where everyone gets to play,

pushed him to participate in basketball and soccer while at PCS.

Hancock will attend Grand Canyon University in Phoenix this fall and he plans on majoring in criminal justice, with the hope of eventually becoming a detective.

The move is an exciting one for Hancock, who said he’s “never been a snow guy.”

He said he plans to start out as a police officer to gain experience and work his way up in law enforcement, and while GCU is mainly known for its nursing program, the university also has a strong criminal justice program.

Hancock has worked for two years to save up money for his schooling and he said PCS is one of a number of schools from which GCU offers stu-dents a $5,000 deduction per semester for attending.

Like in high school, Hancock will try to find time to play basketball between his classes, but he said, “It’s not the same as when you’ve been doing it with people for four years.”

Hancock said he’ll miss the relationships he’s built with his teachers and schoolmates at PCS because he’s the “fam-ily and friends type.”

“All the teachers here and

all the people and the time they’ve put into me, it’s really made me a better person,” Hancock said.

At PCS, considering the small class sizes, Hancock said the students and faculty are able to build stronger bonds

than found at most schools.“They invest so much into

you and they get us as far as we need to be,” he said.

Josh Babcock can be reached at (208) 883-4630, or by email to [email protected].

Christian Hancock to attend Grand Canyon University, hopes to be a detective

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Christian Hancock, Pullman Christian School

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Fortunately for high school senior Danica Davis, she is

accustomed to athletics.

The soon-to-be college f r e s h m a n said between playing var-sity soccer and basketball and participating in multiple extracurricu-lar activities, senior year was her busi-est at Moscow High School.

“I got swung up to the varsity team my freshman year for soc-cer. For basketball I made the freshman team and played var-sity my sophomore, junior and senior years. I also did Business Professionals of America and made it to nationals last year and this year,” the 18-year-old said.

“I’m also BPA treasurer of our school so I got to take care of the student store, I’m senior class president and part of the National Honor Society,” Davis said.

The craziness has all been worthwhile.

“Being class president is stressful but it has good rewards,” she said. “Senior Sneak is coming up and I’m really excited to see the kids’ faces when we go.”

Davis said she was respon-sible for arranging buses for the seniors taking part in the event as well as organizing the ulti-mate surprise destination.

Unlike some students who seek out a distant college in order to find their feet, Davis is content staying securely in her hometown.

“I’m going to go the University of Idaho and I’m going to major in accounting as of right now,” Davis said.

She will be the third genera-tion of her fam-ily to attend the UI.

“It’s also where my fam-ily went, my mom, my dad, my grandpa ... a ton of my cousins and uncles went there, plus my sister goes there. I didn’t want to leave,” she said.

Davis said she has given

a lot of thought to her future and has narrowed down her career choices to just a few — those that reflect both her family history and her love of team sports.

“I think I’ll go in my father’s steps and be a CPA or a profes-sor for accounting, and coach basketball,” she said. “I really want to coach. I get along well with kids, at least I think I do. I think I’d be a very good basket-ball coach.”


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Danica Davis, Moscow High School

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Moscow High School senior

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By Samantha MalottDaily News staff writer

Colfax senior Josh Brown is taking his life-long passion to the next

level as he prepares to join the Western Oregon University football team.

The 18-year-old has lived in Colfax nearly all his life and began playing football in the fifth grade. Since then, he has played nearly every posi-tion on the team, but at WOU he will be playing offensive tackle.

“My dad is a big fan (of foot-ball) and got us into it early,” Brown said. “It just clicked.”

Brown said football was something he was able to pick

up quickly and his nearly 6-foot-6 frame helped give him a leg up.

The physical and mental aspects of the game, especially having to hit someone, can be a challenge, he said, but “you have to get over being timid and let that go.”

Brown said the scholarship he received from WOU is the main reason he is even able to go to a four-year university.

“I wouldn’t be able to do any of this without my coach, parents and community sup-port,” he said.

A mix of other clubs and teams kept Brown busy throughout high school, includ-ing basketball, track, the National FAA Organization and Future Business Leaders of America. Brown also took the stage in the school’s pro-duction of “Hello Dolly” and “South Pacific.”

“It feels like I’m always going, so when I do get some down time I like to sit down and watch a movie,” he said.

As the oldest brother of four, Brown will be the first to head off to college.

“They’re happy for me, but they’re also going to miss me,” he said.

While he doesn’t know yet what he wants to study when he gets there, just going to a four-year college is doing something he didn’t think would happen and he is both excited and nervous.

Samantha Malott can be reached at (208) 883-4639, or by email to [email protected].

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Rachel Nelson saw her first brain in preschool.

Now, the soon-to-be Garfield-Palouse High School graduate is planning to attend Washington State University in the fall and double major in psychology and neuroscience.

“I’ve always been interest-ed in how people act,” Nelson said.

For the past year Nelson has volunteered at the Palouse Area Therapeutic Horsemanship, where she works with disabled children, some with brain conditions. Nelson said she plans to con-tinue working at PATH while attending WSU.

At first she said she wasn’t convinced about the univer-

sity, but the high-quality labs and the strong neuroscience program changed her mind.

Both of Nelson’s parents are Cougs. Her mother, Deb Nelson, is a human develop-ment instructor and her father, Mark Nelson, is an animal sci-ence professor and scientist.

Although her family has roots at WSU, she said her parents never pushed her to attend the university, but they were happy to find out their daughter will be so close to home.

After achieving her degrees at WSU Nelson said she wants to go to graduate school and eventually work at a therapeu-tic riding program, and later a medical clinic.

Nelson is one of three vale-dictorians and one of 27 from GPSH’s 2015 graduating class.

She participated in the Knowledge Bowl and National Honor Society and was an aide for the school’s kindergarten class for two years.

In February, Nelson won her school $500 from the KREM 2 News program Credit 2 Kids for her academ-ic achievement. She donated $400 to the school’s music pro-gram and $100 to the kinder-garten class.

The thing she’ll miss most about her high school is the community feeling, she said. Most of her classmates have grown up together, and the teachers and faculty have also built strong bonds with the students.

She said she became close to the faculty and knows it’s something she may not have at the next academic level, but she’s thankful for those relationships.

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Mary Kate Myers isn’t the average high school student.

Her grades, achievements and determination sets her apart from the crowd.

The senior at Genesee High School is involved in a number of extracurricular activities including participating in the National FFA Organization, Business Professionals of America, cheer team and serving as class president and a student ambassador. She’s traveled to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, Greece, Italy and France.

To add to an already impressive list of activities, Myers is also her senior class

salutatorian. She currently holds a 3.86 GPA and will give a speech at her graduation.

Those are just her aca-demic-based extracurriculars. Outside the walls of the high school, Myers gives back to her community.

Myers is an active mem-ber of Relay for Life, and for her senior project she orga-nized “Stacking for a Cure,” a pancake feed fundraiser to raise awareness for can-cer research. The fundraiser brought in $3,200 to donate to Relay for Life.

On a typical Friday night, there’s a chance Myers can be spotted volunteering at the soup kitchen at the Salvation Army.

With so many achieve-ments, Myers is confident

she’s gotten everything she could out of her high school experience.

“I’m really excited to grad-uate, but I think I’m ready for what college has to offer,” she said.

Myers will attend the University of Idaho in the fall, where she plans to major in agricultural communications. Myers devoted a majority of her time to FFA and wishes to find a job that specializes in the human resources side of farming.

“My dream job would be a communication specialist for an agriculture company,” Myers said.

Myers is also looking for-ward to joining a sorority at the UI, but she said she will miss the interactions she had with her high school friends.

“There are only five girls in my graduating class,” Myers said. “We were more like a family than a class.”

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By Dominique Wald Daily News staff writer

High school senior Kelli Kinzer is preparing to say goodbye to the

past four years and to Deary and say hello to the next chap-ter of her life.

The Deary High School stu-dent is heavily involved in vari-ous clubs and sports, including basketball, cross country, track, student council and Future Farmers of America and she also participated in the school’s health occupations program.

“I keep myself pretty busy,” Kinzer said. “I don’t get much

free time.” Kinzer was also a part of the

4-H Citizen Washington Focus program, which brings in thou-sands of students who work together to understand the importance of civic and social responsibilities as they relate to the development of better citizens and leaders.

Through CWF, Kinzer was able to visit Washington, D.C., during her freshman year for two weeks and attend work-shops that specialized in teach-ing students about leadership. Kinzer recalls doing an endless amount of sightseeing after the workshops.

Her fondest memory, how-ever, was tak-ing a Caribbean cruise with her cousin this past spring.

Kinzer is one of 12 stu-dents at Deary High School graduating on Saturday.

She now looks forward to attending the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls where she plans to study in the institution’s veterinary technology program.

“I’ve grown up around ani-mals my whole life,” Kinzer said. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.”

Although the exciting opportunities college has to offer are right around the cor-ner, high school graduation is one rite of passage Kinzer has mixed emotions about.

“I feel excited and nervous at the same time,” Kinzer said. “I’m definitely going to miss

high school. I had a routine and it was nice knowing what I was going to be doing every single day.”

Kinzer said she is look-ing forward to learning how to be an adult and living on her own while in college and is also eager to get involved in the clubs on campus, but

academics will remain her main focus.

Dominique Wald can be reached at (208) 883-4628, or by email to [email protected].

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Chris Morgan gets his kicks — not to mention punches and grapples

— from mixed martial arts.The Paradise Creek Regional

Alternative High School senior has already competed in a couple of matches and plans to increase his involvement in the sport once he finishes his stud-ies.

MMA allows opponents to strike and grapple one another using various techniques, while standing or on the ground. Style can come from an array of com-bat sports and martial arts. Morgan favors boxing, jujitsu and wrestling.

“I’ve always had an athletic background — BMX, football, basketball,” the 18-year-old said.

M o r g a n said his father, Earl, was ecstatic when he found out about his son’s interest in the sport. Liesha, his m o t h e r , wasn’t as enthused.

“At the beg inning she had some hard feelings and she didn’t think I was going to commit to it,” he said.

She came around after he completed his first match.

The idea of MMA competi-tions is “to find ways to pun-ish your opponent so they won’t want to fight anymore and you win,” Morgan said.

It requires being fit and skilled enough to do what’s required — within the rules

— to cause the opponent so much pain they can’t handle anything else being heaped on them.

Training isn’t that easy in Moscow, Morgan said. It’s a regimen that includes running, weights, push-ups and pull-ups. Finding local fights isn’t as difficult, however.

“You just have to know pro-moters to get on the cards,” Morgan said.

His senior project focused on MMA. He traced its his-tory back to when it was an underground sport, explained what it has become and what it involves, and learned some new techniques.

Morgan has also written about MMA for his school newspaper, the Paradise Creek Review.

He said staff at the school were able to give him ample atten-tion so he could learn despite hav-ing what he describes as “really bad a t t ent i on deficit disor-der.”

A n d he’ll be a father soon. His son is expected to arrive with-in the next

few weeks, he said proudly.The plan is to move to a larg-

er city, possibly Coeur d’Alene, so he’ll have more and better-paying work options as he con-tinues to train and compete for at least a few more years.

Terri Harber can be reached at (208) 883-4631, or by email to [email protected].

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During Winnie Schultheis’ four years at Colton High School

she made many friends and spent much of her time play-ing sports — two things she said she’ll miss most as she heads off to college this fall.

Schultheis is one of 16 g r a d u a t i n g from CHS this year. While in high school she partici-pated in vol-leyball, soft-ball, basket-ball, National H o n o r Society, the National FFA Organization and was a member of the student government.

She plans to attend Washington State University in the fall and study pre-occu-pational therapy and human development. She said her interest in the field comes from her passion to help peo-ple. After her time at WSU she would like to earn a mas-ter’s degree in occupational therapy and work with the elderly to help them become independent.

Schultheis didn’t mind attending class in high school, she said, “more for the people than the schoolwork.”

While Schultheis will be moving off, she plans to visit her friends and her hometown regularly.

“It’ll be tough not see-ing (my friends) every day — everyone was such a big part in each other’s lives,” she said. “All the kids grew up together, so they’re basically brother and sisters.”

It’s not just her fellow stu-dents she’ll miss. She also has a soft spot for her teachers.

Many of Schultheis’ friends are attend-ing nearby colleges and she said she will recon-nect with them during her breaks, a l t h o u g h she’s excited to make new friends.

A l o n g with meet-ing friends, S c h u l t h e i s is eager to attend WSU

football games, although she’s not one to usually be a specta-tor.

Schultheis went to eight state tournaments and won six state titles — three in soft-ball and three in basketball — during her four years at CHS.

She still has a shot at one more title with the Colton softball team competing at the state tournament now.

Despite all the success, Schultheis said it was the girls on her teams and the people in her classes that made high school the experi-ence so great.


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Ryan Lawrence said he’s sometimes referred to as Kendrick High School’s

assistant principal — but he doesn’t mind because it’s not meant as an insult.

His nickname was earned thanks to his many successful efforts to make the campus

a better place to learn and work.

“I just want to be able to make a difference and help people,” the 18-year-old said.

He also enjoys solving

problems. Spending two summers

working for the school district doing mostly maintenance chores, as well as some work for the athletic department, caused him to realize how important the skill is. Any complicated system, gov-ernment or private, needs people who can ensure it runs smooth-ly, he said.

Kendrick’s current set-up is in great need of full replacement because it has been there since the 1950s.

Lawrence’s senior project was to propose and design new structures to fulfill the school’s athletic needs with new storage, concession, score-board areas and restrooms. School staff intend to use his senior project ideas when those improvement eventu-ally occur, he said.

Lawrence will attend Boise State University this fall and he plans to pursue a double major of political science and criminal justice.

He said he doesn’t neces-sarily favor one of the subjects over the other — at least right now.

His father, Earl, a third-generation farmer-rancher in Nez Perce County, might have influenced his interest in poli-tics, as he listens to political programs on the radio all of the time while he’s working, “even when he’s driving farm equipment,” Ryan said.

Earl might have had some

influence in his son establish-ing a lawn care business, too.

Ryan had a large number of customers in Kendrick and in nearby Nez Perce County homes before he sold it about a year ago to his four old-

est employees — also teen-agers.

There was no specific goal in mind when he “retired” other than focusing on school and “occasionally taking a break or a nap,” he said.

His moth-er, Sandy,

teaches elementary school. That’s a topic that also cap-tures his attention.

Ryan said he is leaning toward politics or becoming an attorney right now.

There are various ways he could help solve problems. He pointed to the nation’s agricul-ture and education systems, which he said are in dire need of appropriate political solu-tions. A career in national politics would put him in a position to make a difference.

Both have “too many rules and regulations,” he said.

He singled out Idaho’s education system as being in need of much more money and many overall improvements.

A career in public admin-istration would allow him to deal with these problems from the inside, as an administra-tor, he said.


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There was nothing half-baked about Larissa Larson’s senior class

project. Larson souped up a

Raspberry Pi, RPi for short, to work as a full-size desktop model. The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized, single-board computer created to help teach basic computer science skills.

But she also did something more significant by simplify-ing the way her RPi func-tions.

When someone wants to use a calculator to add num-bers together they punch these keys in this order: “3” - “plus” - “4” - “equals” to get the solution of “7.”

Larson did some coding and

was able to reduce the amount of punches to reach the same mathematical conclusion:

“3” - “4” - “plus” - “enter” to arrive at the answer.

“And no parenthesis needed,” she said.

She used Python cod-ing language program to a c c o m p l i s h the modifica-tion. It was a college-level problem she was able to solve.

L a r s o n plans to begin studying com-puter engineering this fall at the University of Idaho after

she graduates from Potlatch Junior-Senior High School this spring.

Computer science involves software, cod-ing and pro-g r a m m i n g while comput-er engineer-ing involves software and h a r d w a r e , which is why she likes it.

“It com-bines the brains and guts of com-puters,” she said. “Coding was fun, but working with

Raspberry Pi was as fun.”She’s also considering com-

puter security as a career.

“It’s not a job area that’s going to go away soon,” she said. “And I find it very inter-esting.”

Larson is also a musician who plays alto saxophone and performs with various groups in the area.

She was in the third grade when her family moved to Potlatch from Spokane because her father was going to work for Schweitzer Engineering

Laboratories. The move allowed her to become involved with the local school’s music program.

Larson said she also loves to read, and her interest in films and cinematography is strong enough that she expects to eventually consider a minor in that area.


Tech-minded student wants to make electronic gadgets more secure

Problem-solving for Potlatch girl easy as Pi

Larissa Larson, Potlatch High School

“Coding was fun, but working with Raspberry Pi was

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Potlach High School senior

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Logos senior Lizzie Schlect possesses all of the big dreams and excitement of

a soon-to-be graduate who just discovered the world is her oys-ter — as well as a logical mind that led her to create a plan.

Schlect, who recently flew to Raleigh, N.C., with the rest of the Logos Mock Trial Team for a national competition, will fol-low the trip with another two traveling experiences before beginning her freshman year at New Saint Andrews College in the fall.

“First we’re doing our senior trip. We’ll go to Oregon for that, around the Portland area for a week and after that my family is going to the East Coast,” she said.

Schlect said aside from a trip to Florida when she was a small child, she hasn’t yet vis-ited the Eastern Seaboard.

“We’re going to be there for about a week and sight-see as much as we can while we’re there, mostly northern like Philadelphia and D.C. I made sure we’re going to the Smithsonian Institution, too,” she said.

For Schlect, it will be a chance to immerse herself in the history she so loves

“My dream career is to be an archeologist somewhere over in

Egypt, but I know that’s kind of a hard position to reach so we’ll see what happens,” she said.

Schlect acknowledged she has plenty of time to decide — part of which will be spent studying the liberal arts and, she hopes, traveling outside the U.S.

“I’m going to New Saint Andrews College and I’m hop-ing that will give me a good foundation for what I want to do later,” she said. “I think study-ing abroad would be really fun for a semester ... Europe would be my first choice because I’ve never been there before.”


Logos grad dreams of archeology abroad

A future in the past

Lizzie Schlect, Logos High School

By Samantha MalottDaily News staff writer

After volunteering with Gritman Medical Center and the Troy Volunteer

Fire Department, Sarah Kwate is ready to begin her academic career to prepare her for a med-ical profession.

Kwate, a 16-year-old senior at Troy High School, skipped seventh grade after getting ahead in math and now is graduating as valedictorian of her class, with a 4.0 GPA.

Kwate was born and raised in Troy, where father, Rob, is a volunteer with the fire and ambulance departments when he isn’t practicing as an attorney in Lewiston. Kwate’s mother, Theresa, works at Palouse Medical in Pullman.

Throughout her time in school, Kwate has been a member of the National FFA Organization, Business Professionals of America and the National Honor Society. She also has kept statistics for the football team and played

volleyball for the school and on a club team.

She said the hours she logged volunteering were her favorite and that they helped form her dreams of attend-ing medical school after her undergraduate career at Gonzaga University.

“It’s treating patients that intrigues me,” she said. “I just want to be able to help people.”

While volunteering at Gritman Medical Center, she helped in the billing, adminis-tration, marketing and at the volunteer office. She said her time there introduced her to the medical field personally and helped her develop social skills.

Kwate said she hopes to be accepted into the trust program at the University of Washington, aimed at bring-ing medical professionals to rural, under-served communi-ties. As for now, she is looking at pediatrics and she knows she wants to end up serving a rural community.

Having grown up in Troy, Kwate said she loves outdoor activities, such as camping, boating and hiking, and she hopes she is able to find some of that while at school in Spokane.

“I just like to take advan-tage of the beauty we have here,” she said.

Samantha Malott can be reached at (208) 883-4639, or by email to [email protected].

Troy graduate spends time volunteering, building her medical resume

On the path to medical school

Sarah Kwate, Troy High School

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