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NORTHWEST GUILFORD Kam Pegram, senior Sport: volleyball by MEREDITH BARKLEY Kam Pegram, who has played three sports at Northwest Guilford, is focused on volleyball her senior year. She’s also spending much of her non-school time as a front-line worker helping folks survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doesn’t leave time for much else, she said. For 15 to 20 hours each week she helps fill online grocery orders at the Harris Teeter on Skeet Club Road in High Point. That puts her in regular contact with folks who either can’t shop in person or won’t risk it. “It makes me feel good about myself that I am helping other people,” Pegram said. She started her job last May, soon after the virus was becoming more widespread in our country and taking with it all semblance of normal life. “I was going crazy staying at home,” she said. “So, I said, ‘I’m going to go get a job.’”
She’s able to work her hours around school and volleyball, her favorite sport. She’s also played basketball and softball, but got “worn out” on those sports, she said. Not so with volleyball. “Ever since freshman year, it’s been fun to go to,” Pegram said. She’s a defensive specialist, hanging out on the back row and feeding the ball in to play makers. “You are the one who creates the offense,” she said of her role on the team. Coach Nancy Everett credits Pegram with being a “good leader on and off the court.” Pegram heads to Appalachian State next year to study physical science. Her career goal is to become a chiropractor. As an athlete, she’s had some first-hand experience with the profession. “The constant wear and tear” on her body, she said, left her with back pain. Her chiropractor was able to relieve the pain without resorting to drug therapy.
“Once I started going to the chiropractor, my movement started coming back and I wasn’t in as much pain,” Pegram said. She talked with her chiropractor about the profession and he offered to let her shadow him so she could learn more. “I want to help people and not have to use medicine to do that,” she said.
NORTHERN GUILFORD Hadley Osborne, freshman Sport: swimming by MEREDITH BARKLEY
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JAN. 21 - FEB. 3, 2021
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Hadley Osborne recalls once being so scared of swimming that the prospect of it brought her to tears.
