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Senior in the Spotlight: Jordyn Pearson
Our first Senior in the Spotlight for 2020 is a thirdgeneration Sandite, in the top 10% of her class, and currently plays softball for Charles Page High School. She started her schooling in Anderson but moved to Sand Springs in 7th grade and has been highly active in the community ever since. Congratulations to our Senior in the Spotlight, Jordyn Pearson.
Jordyn is extremely involved with the softball team both in school and in a competitive softball team. Her position of pitcher and softball practices takes up most of her extracurricular time but she still has found time for the yearbook, work, pitching lessons, and being involved with her youth group. Overall, Jordyn has her days filled from beginning to end with school, extracurriculars and life-fulfilling activities. She is currently working at Anytime Fitness in Sand Springs, where she works out at the gym in her free time. She has been involved with the yearbook since 9th grade and is, this year, a photo editor working on all the photos in the yearbook.
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Jordyn started playing softball when she was 11 years old, playing both school softball and competitive
softball throughout that time. She is currently on the softball team for Charles Page High School but is also a part of Team Believe. She is the pitcher for Team Believe and owes her scholarship opportunities to playing with the competitive league. However, she also states, “I love school ball, I’ve made a lot of friends.”
Recently Jordyn signed with Missouri Baptist University on a softball scholarship for the fall. Her head softball coach Ken Messer-Brooks came down for the signing and has given her several tours of the school. She verbal committed last January and signed on November 13th, and has ended up with a generous scholarship for softball and her academics. She states that he has opened up his home if she is ever homesick. He is also setting up a group text this summer for all the new softball players so Jordyn can pick her roommate from a teammate she connects with. MBU is a smaller school, which Jordyn states, is one of the reasons she chose the school. She plans on going for a pre-law or criminal justice degree and wants to continue onto Law School and plans to be a defense attorney. She also is wanting to minor in Journalism or Photography to supplement her major.
Senior In The Spotlight When we asked Jordyn why she was interested in becoming a lawyer, she said she has always been interested in the justice system and how it works. Her plan is to go to school, start in private practice and eventually run for a judgeship right here in Tulsa.
Throughout her time at CPHS one of her favorite teachers has been Amy Pennington. Mrs. Pennington isn’t technically a teacher, she is the librarian and is in charge of the yearbook. Jordyn states, “I can go to her for anything I need, and she always helps me… she wrote me so many letters of recommendation and looked over my college essays because she used to be an English teacher… She’s just always been there.”
During her precious free-time, Jordyn enjoys spending time with her friends in the High School parking lot, watching TV (her favorite show is Criminal Minds), and going window shopping. She is currently window-shopping for her future dorm room, taking pictures and planning out her dorm in the months to come.
This next fall, Jordyn will be heading to St. Louis, Missouri with colder weather, no-one that she knows, and is going from living in the country to living in the city. She expects the change will be a slight culture shock. Going along with the theme of this magazine, “Dare to Leap,” she is going out into the unknown and forging her own path. She says, “take every chance while you got it, don’t let it be wasted.” As she moves onto college this fall, we wish her the best of luck. She wants to let all current students know, “Enjoy your time at High School while you can… don’t have any regrets.” Let’s all take her advice and live life without regrets, lets all Dare to Leap.
