Who I Was In High School: Show and Tell Tuesday

I’m linking up today with Andrea and sharing what we were like in high school.  I went to a small Christian school in Carrollton, Texas from Pre-K to 12th grade.  My memories of high school are good ones and some of my good friends today are from that school.  We had our 10 year reunion a couple of years ago and catching up with them was so easy.  Those people know me so well!  I graduated with a class of 35 students.  It was small, but I loved it!

I’ll start at the beginning of high school.  I missed my very first week of 9th grade because I was training with the U.S. Central Region team.  In high school I missed some things because I was traveling with my club team or my ODP (Olympic development program) team.  Soccer was a huge part of who I was in high school.  As a matter of fact, I never had Thanksgiving with my family in high school, because I traveled with our Region team to Florida that entire week every Thanksgiving break.  It was a bummer, but it was also cool to be there!

In addition to club and ODP soccer, I did some other sports in school as well.  I ran track, cross country, and played on the soccer team (we didn’t get a team until my sophomore year).  I loved sports!  Here I am my senior year…

Here are some other pictures of my memories of athletics in high school…

Academically, I had to work really hard for my grades.  I made A’s and B’s.  I loved homework, but hated studying for tests.  Math was my favorite subject!  I really enjoyed school!  I was President of National Honor Society my senior year.  I’m 2nd row from the bottom, 3rd from left.
 

Since I went to a Christian school, we wore uniforms and had Chapel every Thursday.  We had to wear a skirt with our white collared shirts on Thursdays…the things you remember 🙂  Fridays were Spirit days where we could wear our CCA t-shirts and jeans.  I didn’t realize how much wearing a uniform was a blessing.  I never had to think about outfits for school.  Below is a picture of me and some of my friends after Chapel one day.

Here are my yearbook pictures from 9th-12th grade.  Brace yourselves…Yikes!

My senior year was by far my favorite year of high school!  We were the first graduating class in the new CCA building.  I grew a lot closer to God that year and I felt like my friendships grew so much.  This was also the year I met Ryan.  Y’all, Ryan was such a clear gift from God that year!  We met in a non-ideal situation (he was helping coach the baseball team during his off season in the minor leagues and I was going to school there…it’s a really long story…he also went to CCA prior to me).  Obviously we couldn’t date or even talk about dating, but I knew God introduced us for a reason.  Sure enough, 4 years later, we were married!  There hasn’t been a more clearer situation of God intervening in my life.

Some more fun from my senior year…

So that’s me in a nutshell in high school!  I have such fond memories of school and I pray school is just as good, even better, for my boys!  I’m so thankful my parents sacrificed and put us through 12 years of Christian school!  I would not be where I am today without it!