Each year the Mill Creek Rotary Club names a Student of the Year for Jackson High School and Archbishop Murphy High School.
Archbishop Murphy
High School
Brian Meehan won the Archbishop Murphy Student of the Year award, and an accompanying $2,000 scholarship.
Brian played football for three years while also participating as one of captains of this year’s state championship Wildcats team.
For the past three years he has also gone on mission trips, two to Yakima, and the most recent being to Camp Brotherhood in Mt. Vernon, with his youth Group from St. Thomas More.
He now plans to go on to a four-year university, either Western Washington University or Gonzaga University. He plans to major in Spanish and then go to law school, specializing in international law.
Jackson High School
Roxanne Fernandez was Jackson’s Student of the Year winner, and will also receive a scholarship of up to $2,000 over her four years of school.
Fernandez, also known as an “intellectual dynamo,” has served her school in multiple leadership capacities while also participating in a range of activities. She has been involved in ASB since elected Sophomore Class Treasurer, and is now the Associated Student Body Secretary. She has played tennis since her Freshman year, and is currently co-captain of the team.
Active in Math Club as a sophomore, by her senior year Fernandez became president. She also draws, writes inspiring poetry, plays the saxophone and provides support for incoming freshmen through Leaders of the Pack. She was able to accomplish these roles while also enrolled in upper division courses like Honors Humanities, UW English and Government, Spanish lV, Calculus, Physics and Advanced Biology.
Fernandez also took on a project no one else wanted: grounds cleanup and maintenance for the school campus after district resources had been drastically cut.
After three different individuals and groups promised to take this on, but failed to deliver, she announced that she would get the job done and organized 100 students for a full day of weeding, pruning, and spreading bark.
The Student of the Year award competition is open to any senior in the two schools involved and the winners are chosen from applications that are completed and reviewed by the Vocational Committee from the Rotary Club.
The application includes a resume of the student’s accomplishments to date, in both academics and community service.
Applicants also completed an essay on how they could see themselves using the four-way test from Rotary in everyday life.
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