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Six-foot-five Sarah Boothe wins full-ride to Stanford
| offensive titillating corner incel | 05/06/08 |
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Date: May 6th, 2008 8:28 AM Author: offensive titillating corner incel Subject: (from the Waukeegan News-Sun) She's raised the bar for our future student-athletes
May 6, 2008
By JEFF BONATO
On the basketball court, she makes it look so easy you actually start thinking that Sarah Boothe never sweats.
Not true.
Just ask her about the experience of applying for admission to Stanford University, including what she was doing while the minutes and hours and days and weeks passed as she waited to hear if she had been accepted into one of the most prestigious universities in the country.
Trust me on this. She was sweating.
The Warren High senior called working through Stanford's lengthy, demanding admissions process one of the most difficult things she's had to do -- ever.
And after completing the process, waiting to hear from Stanford qualified as the second-most difficult thing she's had to do.
Compared to that, what she accomplished during her four years at Warren High in Gurnee was, well, no sweat.
If you're scoring at home, let it suffice to say that she easily is the most celebrated high-school girls basketball player ever to graduate from a Lake County school.
Emphasis on "easily."
And for every success on the basketball court, there was an equal success in the classroom, where she earned a 3.98 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale at Warren.
With her numbers in the classroom and her numbers on the basketball court, it's easy to see why she was selected as The News-Sun's 2007-2008 Female Student-Athlete of the Year.
Sarah's successes on the basketball court have been well-documented in the past four years.
So, here's what Warren High athletic director Mark Pos had to say about the 6-foot-5 senior:
"She is, far and away, the most-decorated athlete to come through our doors. What makes this award even more special is the fact that she is about as humble a person as you will ever meet.
"She has taken her success in stride and truly has become the perfect student-athlete. She has set the bar high for future athletes at Warren."
The good news for Sarah's fans is that we will be able to follow her basketball career at Stanford. As one of the top three collegiate women's hoops programs in the nation, several of Stanford's games air on TV channels carried by our local cable system.
The guess here is that she will be every bit as successful at Stanford as she was at Warren. |