Windermere High School: Determined Wolverines

By Erika Krumm 

The track of 12 years in grade school … something every student pushes through no matter the obstacles, stretching over every hurdle. Some runners win more than others, placing out on top as their fellow competitors either win beside them, or trip and fail to strive. Regardless, every athlete struggles with tough mistakes and unfortunate inconveniences along their journey to eventual victory. However, what differentiates each competitor between each other simply lies in their range of ability to pick themselves back up, no matter the bloody scrapes and bruises from falling over countless numbers of times. 

Every student can easily make it past the rough 12 years filled with exploration and possibility. You wake up, exhaustedly walk to school, get decent grades on assignments and tests, go home, sleep and repeat. What makes us different from most, however, is the sheer ability to put massive levels of passion, dedication, and teamwork into every ounce of our interests, academic abilities and ambitious goals. 

Windermere High School’s Class of 2022 holds incredible levels of determination and courage, which is used perfectly to grasp ahold on anything it set its mind to in a proper but enthusiastic and courageous manner. A grade filled with comfortingly accepting and friendly students willing to express their passions to anybody. Every student within our premises is imperfectly individual in their own beautifully creative and intuitive way. Essentially, nothing can get in the way of what we love doing and those we care for. Despite this, there’s one thing that we all contain deep down, something that will never be outshined: determination.

As the second set of freshmen to stand foot in this large school, we not only stand out brightly for our originality, but our kindness toward one another, our brave leadership and our willingness to help each other through thick and thin — no matter the consequences. From tough sports to the beautiful complexity of arts in all forms, the students have their own glorious potential to prevail in what they love above any complication, painting colorful portrayals of their aspirations, working on drafts for new levels of improvement far beyond what could’ve been previously imagined. We share compassion with those we care about and defend them through every issue. 

The accomplishments we have been able to achieve through all efforts are perfect results of what we’ve set our minds to. We’ve been recognized and known for our unbreakable school spirit, confidently presenting our names, being proud of who we are or what we’ve accomplished. We, as students and friends, strive tremendously in not only academics but also different sports, artistic abilities, passion and companionship. We’ve been properly prepared for our futures — whether moving to college or workforce, to strive even further in being the best we can possibly be. 

Our caring teachers deserve the utmost credit for our achievements, as well. Over the course of these four adventurous high school years, the Class of 2022 has been blessed with the presence of incredible teachers that are intimately passionate with their work and heavily appreciate having students of all sorts. They’ve intricately taught subjects of all matters in things not only they enjoy, but we heavily confide in interest-wise. We’ve grown friendships with our teachers as they’ve come to know us as we have for them, and it’s unbelievably saddening to say goodbye to the people we care about, the people who influenced our learning ability and accepted us for who we are. They’ve helped us through hardships and have helped us push ourselves into the right direction despite any inconvenience, and their generosity shows no boundaries. Our class is immensely grateful to know and have been taught by such wonderful and kind staff.

We, as a whole, brightly stand out over the massive field of sunflowers for our fierce independence and incredible strength to explore deep into the unknown, blooming big vibrant pedals for everyone to see as we flourish in our victories and pride. We care for one another, accept one another, help each other through any cause, and, most importantly, we are absolutely determined to accomplish our goals and strive to our best.

We are the athletes who strive to the top with our intense determination. We are the athletes who are appreciated for our amazing levels of companionship and passion for what we love and enjoy. We are the athletes who care for one another and work together to reach our ultimate goal. We are the athletes who push through every hardship we’re brutally hit with and leave nothing behind but dusty, unwanted remains. We are the Windermere Wolverines.