By Maren Leonard
Despite his go-to ice cream order being vanilla, there is nothing boring about Charlie Schirmer (but seriously who says vanilla?). He’s a player for our school’s football team, maintains an active social life and is an involved member of The Sentry. In order to accomplish this, he keeps a regimented daily schedule.
“[After school] I go straight to the field for football practice, and then I go home and do my homework,” Schirmer said
Football is clearly a passion that permeates many aspects of Schirmer’s life. When asked what career path he would do for free he replied that he would be a coach. His outgoing personality would certainly match this role.
“I’d say I work well with other people. I like to socialize and I like being around people in general,” Schirmer said.
This quote encapsulates how important close relationships with family and friends are to him. During our conversation, he often remarked on how much he valued these family connections.
“They’re probably the ones that have probably influenced me the most in my life. They’re always really supportive and it means a lot to me. They always come first,” Schirmer said
When it comes to his friends, there are no lengths he wouldn’t travel. In fact, his favorite vacation, a cross-continental journey in Europe, involved visiting a friend.
“We went to Italy and Paris and Germany because my friend lives out there, he moved out there. So I went to go visit him and his family and we just pretty much went all throughout Europe and it was very cool,” Schirmer said.
While he enjoyed the destination, the long travel day could be cut down by the use of Schirmer’s dream super power: super speed.
“That sounds way cooler than like flying. If you could control how fast you run, that’d be really cool,” Schirmer said.
While his devotion to friends, sports and academics is clear, Schirmer also has many hobbies. He enjoys winding down with movies, one of his favorites being Borat. Music is also a passion of Schirmer’s, who listed Travis Scott as his favorite concert artist.
“I went to the Travis Scott concert last year. It was super fun … [the audience] started an earthquake in the city,” Schirmer said.
Though he obviously has a busy year ahead, we are grateful for Schirmer’s involvement in The Sentry. We are so excited to see what he accomplishes.
By Charlie Schirmer
Junior Maren Leonard is feeling ambitious going into her third year of high school. She has set the bar high for herself, both in and out of the classroom.
“My goals are to do well in AP Spanish. I want to get to at least state semifinals in field hockey and I want to try to keep my grade point average up,” Leonard said.
Student-athletes are known to struggle with managing their time, but Maren believes she has it all figured out.
“I’m most proud of how I manage to balance everything because I have a ton of sports and that makes it difficult to get all my homework done and find clubs and things to be involved with,” Leonard said.
Between school and sports, Maren doesn’t have much free time but when she does, she’s baking or deeply invested in the latest criminal minds episodes. Maybe this whole student-athlete is just a cover up for a much darker secret…
“[On wanting to star in a true crime show] That sounds really dark, but I like true crime and I feel like it would be interesting too, because they are based on real stories, so I think it would be interesting to at least pretend to investigate them and look into these cases,” Leonard said.
Joining The Yorktown Sentry was a no-brainer for Leonard because of her passion for english.
She is even confident enough in her skills that she would even teach the class if she had too.
“I would probably teach English…. I really like my AP Language class, it is really interesting and I would enjoy assigning books and facilitating discussions because that is what I really like in school,” Leonard said.
With her experience in the school newspaper and love for reading, there is no doubt she would be a great teacher. The only thing Leonard is more passionate about than English, is her loathing for cake.
“I really don’t like cake. It is really gross and frosting is terrible. I just get really disappointed whenever someone gives me cake,” Leonard said.
Leonard is a vital part of The Sentry and we are so glad to have her on staff again. We can’t wait to see what she has in store for her junior year.
