She was chosen out of the top 10% of applicants in the western U.S. The Western University Exchange scholarship Brown secured was another draw.
“It’s just a really pretty school and in the environment that I want and the town is great,” Brown said. Environmental science is a specialty at the university, which, along with the location, made it the perfect fit. She started playing competitive club soccer once she started middle school.Īt Ramona High she was on the junior varsity team as a freshman and played on varsity for three years.īrown plans to keep playing as she starts school at WWU in the fall.īrown said she found many reasons to choose to attend WWU after she graduates. Soccer has been a part of Brown’s life since she was 4 years old.
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To fill the rest of her free time, Brown plays soccer for Rebels North Soccer Club in North County as a forward and winger. Every time that I saw a book that was interesting I would take a picture,” Brown said. “It was super nice and relaxing shelving, and I enjoyed it a lot. Brown is an avid reader and used her hours spent shelving books to find recommendations for herself. Leading up to the end of her high school career, Brown volunteered for the Ramona and Poway libraries. She also earned the Western University Exchange scholarship for WWU.Īs class valedictorian, Brown will speak at Ramona High’s Thursday graduation ceremony alongside salutatorians Titus McPherson and Devyn Fulghum. She has received several awards, including AP Scholars with Distinction as well as Excelling in Mathematics Rural Small Towns. “I’ve always loved being out in nature and think it’s really a noble career and I think I’m going to have a lot of fun doing it, so it’s like a win-win,” Brown said.īrown will be graduating with a cumulative GPA of 4.5. She credits her teacher’s love and passion for the subject as one of the reasons she adopted the same attitude toward it. It wasn’t until last year that Brown discovered her passion for environmental science when she took the subject as an AP class. Leah Brown, valedictorian at Ramona High School, already has her plane tickets to fly out to Bellingham, WA to pursue her degree in environmental science at Western Washington University.
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