Apple Valley Affirmation

Ethan Elumba, a junior here at Apple Valley, is a student who likes to challenge himself in his academics.  Ethan takes all of the Advanced Placement courses offered, and all of the honor classes that he can squeeze into his busy schedule.  With these classes comes a lot of stress--not just stress completely relating to academics, but stress that can pour over into other aspects of his life.  A...

Junior Maggie Slater is no different with the amount of things on her plate.  Maggie is involved in soccer and track and field, while also taking many challenging courses at school.  Although Maggie has been a dedicated member of the high school track team since 8th grade and high school soccer player since 9th grade, she has faced many injuries that have set her back in her athletics.  Her injurie...

  As many other student athletes often can relate to, freshman Tia Ahmed finds it difficult to balance school and academics.  Tia made the varsity soccer team as a freshman and continues to play and train all year round.  She typically has soccer six days a week, in addition to her schoolwork.  As life can be all about balance, your social, athletic, and academic lives can often conflict.  Tia...

Senior Madie Martens, reflecting back on her high school career, owes a lot of her success to her leadership roles.  Madie has competed in cross country for three years and is looking forward to being a captain this upcoming track season, her fourth season on the team.  On top of her athletic success, Madie currently leads by example as a Student Council officer.  “Leadership is more than just your sport o...

Senior Tony Lee is no stranger to perseverance.  Tony’s parents moved to the United States when he was only a year old, and faced many economic and cultural challenges upon their arrival.  Many people would let these setbacks get to them, and become discouraged as a result.  However, Tony did not let these slow him down.  He is the person he is today because of the disadvantages he faced.  H...

Sophomore Molly Moynihan also prides herself in being a very involved student athlete.  Molly competes in cross country, basketball and lacrosse.  It goes without saying that she faces many mental and physical challenges from her sports and rigorous advanced courses throughout the school year.  She experiences not only a physical toll on her body, but a mental toll, as well.  Sometimes it seems ...