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NOV 2017

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LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.17 39 Do you travel a lot for field hockey? "I travel about ten hours most weekends to Pennsylvania. I've been to Vienna, Austria. This year I made the alternates for the Pan American Games in Guyana." Do you have any future travel plans with your field hockey team? "Hopefully if we make the World Cup we'll go to England." Do you have a verbal commitment to U of L? "Yes, I verbally committed. I believe it will be in November that I will officially sign to U of L." Samantha Minrath Age 17, 12th grade, Christian Academy of Louisville Samantha has played for the Under-17 USA women's team, which competed in Austria. She also volunteers as part of the Norton Children's Hospital Teen Board and was nationally recognized for her artwork by the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. What subjects do you like in school? "Science is my favorite, definitely. I like learning about the person's mind and how it accesses things, how people have different mannerisms and stuff like that." What do you want to do for a career? "I was going to be a pediatric surgeon, but I realized I liked art a lot more, so now I want to be an art therapist in children's hospitals." How did you get started with Chinese Bridge? "I took Chinese. Last year in the seventh grade, a teacher came and she needed a host family. We volunteered and she came to live with us." What was it like to be a host family? "She kind of became another member of our family. She would cook for us. She made the best Chinese food like fried rice." What do you do in gymnasঞcs? "This year I'm going to be a (level) seven. The higher the level, the harder the skills get." Nicolette Bert Age 12, eighth grade, St. Francis Last spring, Nicolette traveled to Washington, D.C., to compete in a regional Chinese Bridge (language) competition after winning a competition at the state level. She placed third in the national competition by choreographing her own Chinese dance. Nicolette is also a competitive gymnast, competing in the Kentucky state meet, where she won first place in the uneven bars. What is your favorite subject in school? "Art and Chinese. I love creating things a lot. I like working with clay. I like watercolor a lot too." What do you do for fun? "I do origami. I like sci-fi television a lot. I've actually watched that with my dad since I was a toddler. Star Trek, either Voyager or Enterprise, kind of the prequel to all of them." What do you think makes someone smart? "That's a hard one. Working hard and using the knowledge that you have in order to do something that's fun or create something new or that helps somebody."

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