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Thanks to the coaches and teachers at Northern and Northwest High Schools for their student recommendations and input, which make it possible to recognize these talented, dedicated students for their accomplishments in academics, athletics and cultural arts. NORTHWEST GUILFORD Doesn’t leave time for much else, Kam Pegram, senior she said. For 15 to 20 hours each week she Sport: volleyball helps fill online grocery orders at the Harris Teeter on Skeet Club Road in by MEREDITH BARKLEY High Point. That puts her in regular Kam Pegram, contact with folks who either can’t shop who has played in person or won’t risk it. three sports at “It makes me feel good about Northwest myself that I am helping other people,” Guilford, is Pegram said. focused on She started her job last May, soon volleyball her after the virus was becoming more senior year. widespread in our country and taking She’s also with it all semblance of normal life. spending much of her non-school time “I was going crazy staying at home,” as a front-line worker helping folks she said. “So, I said, ‘I’m going to go survive the COVID-19 pandemic. 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

Hadley Osborne recalls once being so scared of swimming that the prospect of it brought her to tears.

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These days, though, the Northern Guilford freshman is a standout on the high school’s team, has done well enough on the Greensboro Community Y (GCY) team to advance to multistate sectional competition, coaches younger swimmers and has her sights set on swimming in college.

“Now people can’t take me away from it,” said Osborne, who has been swimming since age 8. She credits a coach who years ago encouraged her to give the sport a try.

“I like competing with people and I like feeling like I’ve done something,” she said. That “something” includes winning events and “progressing in my time,” she said.

In a meet against Page early in this COVID-shortened season, Osborne won the 200-yard medley and was second in the 100-yard freestyle.

Angela Osborne, her mother, described her daughter as “very motivated in everything she does.”

That motivation kicks in at 4:15 a.m. on the days Hadley has GCY swim practice, which lasts from 5 to 7 a.m. Her mom drives her to and from practice.

Swimming competitively is a commitment. She practices six days a week – six for GCY and one with Northern’s team. So, there is one day a week she’s practicing with each team. She figures she swims about four miles during practices.

“I do enjoy doing it,” Hadley said. “I get tired, but then something comes up and reminds me how much I love swimming.”

COVID-19 has had some impact on her sport. Swimmers have to maintain their distance from each other, some meets are virtual (teams compete at separate locations and compare times) and there are no spectators. For some GCY meets, Angela watches her daughter compete via a computer link.

Hadley’s year-round routine of practices and competitions take up so much time she has little left for other activities. She’s an avid reader, though, and volunteers to help elementary school students improve reading skills.

“I do like helping little kids like that,” she said.

Her favorite subject: biology.

NORTHERN GUILFORD Bella Wooden, senior Sport: volleyball

by MEREDITH BARKLEY

Northern Guilford senior Bella Wooden has developed into a standout performer during her three years of playing competitive volleyball.

She was named to the Mid State 3A All Conference team after last season and heads to Utah State next year to play for the Aggies.

“I have a lot of family out here and I’m from the West,” Wooden, a volleyball middle blocker, said by phone during a recent visit to the Logan, Utah campus. “I like Utah a lot.”

Utah State is an NCAA Division 1 school in the Mountain West Conference.

Wooden, who stands 6 feet, 4 inches tall, played basketball her freshman year, then started playing volleyball during her sophomore year. She’d played recreational league volleyball in elementary and middle schools.

“My mom just really wanted me to give it a chance and I did,” she said. As it turns out, she enjoyed playing volleyball more than basketball, and stuck with it.

Wooden said she’s attracted to “the adrenaline of playing in the moment. You have to put everything out there ...continued on p. 39

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