Senior Spotlight: Sydney Gardner

Here we are again! Acknowledging the seniors in our school and why we should celebrate their accomplishments.

For this issue I interviewed Sydney Gardner, who is known as Syd by her friends. Sydney participates in multiple sports (soccer, tennis and track), clubs (French club and Interact club), and has even participated in Central’s theater program. Sydney also helped to found Pop Culture Club about a year ago with her friend Narmeen Chahal who is also a senior. This is something that she wants to be known for after she graduates from Central. She really enjoys Pop Culture Club, along with all the sports she participates in, and Student Council. After high school, Sydney plans to attend a four year college, where she will major in media, as well as marketing. In ten years she sees herself as a successful published author, and to have a good, well paying job as a film director. Her favorite memory at Central High School was the homecoming parade that she went to her Sophomore year. The thing that she will miss the most about Central is her school friends, her student council teacher Ms. Pennock, and her pop culture club teacher Ms. Decker. The class she enjoyed the most is yearbook, a class that she has taken since her Freshman year. Sydney says that if she had the opportunity to go anywhere in the world, she would go to Hawaii, since her whole family has already been there. Three words that Sydney uses to best describe herself are chill, creative, and adventurous. In her lifetime, Sydney aims to have a family, become a film director, and finish writing and publishing a book. The advice that Sydney would give to Freshmen students? “Get involved and be yourself! If you do those two things you will enjoy high school so much more and you will meet really cool people that might turn into close friends over time”.

I myself think that it’s really cool that Sydney founded a new club at Central, and that she was able to be involved in so many sports and clubs. She really lived up to her advice to be more involved, and even though I am still trying to get one foot in the puddle I will do as she said to be more social. The words that Sydney uses to describe herself were very accurate in my opinion, she was very comfortable to be around and I myself can see her telling some pretty wild stories. Sydney, like most girls, has a lot of potential; they just have to recognize when opportunity strikes. I think that Sydney makes an excellent role model, and that she has a lot to offer the world.