Lindsey Bair

Top female Scholar-Athlete
Lindsey Bair
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Grade-point avg.: 3.95
$8,500
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Sports played: Soccer (4 years), track (4), basketball (3), cross country (1)

Academic highlights: AP Scholar with Honors; National Honor Society member; scored 31 on ACT

Athletic highlights: First-team all-league and second-team all-district in soccer; three-time first-team all-district and all-league and state-meet qualifier in track

College choice: University of South Carolina (anticipated major: civil engineering)

Photo location: I chose the Historical Village at the Franklin County Fairgrounds because I have participated in 4-H at the fair for 10 years and made many happy memories there.

Home front: My family includes my mother, Dorothy Bair, and father, Bob Bair, as well as older sisters Jordan and Courtney and younger sister Allison. 

Favorite subject: Science, because I have always had supportive science teachers and I am the most engaged in their classes.

Least-favorite subject: English has always given me the most trouble because it is not as black and white as science and math. I struggle with the different “interpretations” of passages we read.

Prized possession: Probably my iPhone 11 Pro. I worked hard for a whole summer to be able to buy it myself.

Favorite book: “Swimmy,” by Leo Lionni, because I liked the colors when I was little.

Favorite movie: “Napoleon Dynamite.” I still laugh every time I watch it.

Favorite television show: “Outer Banks,” on Netflix

Favorite musician: Mac Miller’s voice is very calming and his songs have real meaning and emotion behind them.

Essential app: I cannot live without FaceTime.

Favorite home-cooked meal: My grandma makes the best homemade mini-pizzas. For special occasions or parties, my grandma would make homemade dough and everyone would get to create their own pizza.

My cooking specialty: I can make Kraft Mac and Cheese like no other.

Favorite restaurant: Dempsey’s. I love being Downtown, and the food is the best.

Guilty pleasure: Raising Cane’s.

Proudest sports moment: Becoming a Central Catholic League champion in long jump. I had won many other meets, but winning any event in the CCL always meant more to me than any district or regional event.

Sport I’d like to try someday: I really want to try kickboxing or lacrosse.

Story behind my uniform number: I always tried to choose No. 6 because it was my sister Jordan’s number in soccer and her dedication and grit inspired me when I was younger. I chose No. 20 for track my sophomore year because my favorite senior, Katie Perry, wore that number.

Favorite athlete: Gabby Douglas. When I was younger I could not believe she won three gold medals in one Olympics. I also used to watch her TV show and did a report about her in middle school.

Inspiration: My older sister Courtney has always been a great student academically and athletically, but I am most inspired that she will always find time in her busy day, even while she is seven hours away, to check in and help me with what I am doing.

Dream job: My dream job would be a traveling critic so I could get paid to travel the world.

Place I’d like to travel: My dream destination is the Galápagos Islands.

Something most people don’t know about me: That I was valedictorian and homecoming queen. Many people told me after my virtual graduation speech, “I didn’t know you were THAT smart.”

Least-favorite household chore: All of them.

Something I can’t get right no matter how hard I try: I cannot parallel park.

Words to leave by: If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress? — Boonaa Mohammed 

By Ray Stein
rstein@dispatch.com