Noelle Meeker
Honorable mention female Scholar-Athlete
Noelle Meeker
Olentangy Liberty
Grade-point avg.: 4.09
$1,000
Sports played: Track (4 years), gymnastics (3), cheerleading (1)
Academic highlights: Summa Cum Laude award; National Honor Society member; scored 29 on ACT
Athletic highlights: League champion and district runner-up in track and field
College choice: Cincinnati (anticipated major: international business)
Photo location: Inside the stadium at Olentangy Liberty
Home front: My parents are June and Darin Meeker and I have two older brothers: Noah is 21 years old and Nate is 24.
Favorite subjects: Social studies and English. I love to write and really enjoy learning about culture and history.
Least-favorite subject: Math.
Prized possession: I have kept almost every card or handwritten note I have ever received. I love looking back on this collection and reading notes from various times in my life.
Favorite book: “All the Light We Cannot See,” by Anthony Doerr. Through this book, I learned the importance of empathy, understanding the different perspectives people have, and using the differences between one another to grow together. I read this book during my freshman year English class, which is one of my favorite classes I took throughout high school.
Favorite movie: “La La Land.” I just love the idea of the whole movie and felt so inspired after watching it.
Favorite television show: “Friends.” I would love more than anything to grab a cup of coffee with all of them at the Central Perk.
Favorite musician: It’s too hard for me to pick a favorite artist because music has always been a big part of my life and I have many favorites in a variety of genres.
Essential app: Without Google maps, I would not be able to get anywhere.
Favorite home-cooked meal: Whatever my dad puts on the grill!
My cooking specialty: I am more of a baker, so I would say my specialty is decorating cakes and cupcakes. I also love to cook and my favorite meal to prepare is chicken tacos.
Favorite restaurant: Condado Tacos
Guilty pleasure: Cheesecake
Proudest sports moment: When I cleared 12 feet in the pole vault for the first time last summer at the Ohio Northern “Vault on the Tundra” meet.
Sport I’d like to try someday: Volleyball! A lot of my close friends play, and it looks like such a fun sport whenever I go watch their games.
Favorite athlete: Gabby Douglas inspired me so much at a young age, and through her story I learned the value of risk-taking, hard work and sacrificing to reach your goals.
Inspiration: Both of my parents inspire me immensely. It is because of their model of hard work, passion and caring for those around them that I am the person I am today.
Dream job: Studying international business in college can lead me down several paths. I hope to be working at different locations of a company with an international presence to build off of each other, or to earn a law degree to help with international affairs and trade.
Place I’d like to travel: I would love to travel anywhere overseas, but I really hope I get to Paris one day!
Something most people don’t know about me: I used to be a competitive synchronized swimmer for six years on a club team that competed at the national level.
Least-favorite household chore: Cleaning my bathroom.
Something I can’t get right no matter how hard I try: French-braiding my hair.
Words to leave by: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
By Ray Stein
rstein@dispatch.com