{"id":12354,"date":"2019-11-20T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2019-11-20T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:20:34","slug":"lauren-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/lauren-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUREN ROBERTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Nothing can rob her from enjoying life<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Eric Valentine<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12355\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12355\" src=\"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/37AF504D-79F6-4962-98B4-C68A31FA4232-Lauren-Roberts.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"535\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WRHS senior Lauren Roberts. Photo credit: Zoe Simon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When medical conditions forced Lauren Roberts to stop competing in cross-country and softball, the Wood River High School senior knew she\u2019d miss being part of a team. But her resolve found other avenues where she could collaborate with others; namely, within Colla Voce\u2014a competitive all-girl choral group that meets at 6:45 a.m. every day throughout the school year to prepare for national competitions and annual concerts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always enjoyed getting to be part of something bigger and being part of a team,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts may have had to take a breather athletically, but she never skipped a beat academically. Her unweighted GPA is 3.89 and she is taking a full course load studying A.P. Art, A.P. Psychology, American government, college English, A.P. Statistics, and choir. She plans to attend a four-year college to receive a bachelor\u2019s degree in registered nursing, following in her mother\u2019s footsteps, who is a longtime R.N. locally.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts figures college will likely take her out of the Valley\u2014the place she has lived her entire life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing about the Valley that I am going to miss the most when I leave for college is all the incredible opportunities to try new activities and to meet new people this place has given me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s a big world out there, and Roberts understands there is a lot to be done to make it the best it can be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing that needs to change is people\u2019s perspectives,\u201d Roberts explained. \u201cGlobally, there are hundreds of problems that need solutions, but while people may acknowledge the issues, they too quickly assume they aren\u2019t the solution and can\u2019t help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If finding a way to help others is Roberts\u2019 default focus, she comes by it honestly. In addition to a mom who is a nurse, Roberts\u2019 father is a special education teacher at Bellevue Elementary. Helping folks runs in the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing can rob her from enjoying life By Eric Valentine When medical conditions forced Lauren Roberts to stop competing in cross-country and softball, the Wood River High School senior knew she\u2019d miss being part of a team. But her resolve found other avenues where she could collaborate with others; namely, within Colla Voce\u2014a competitive all-girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sponsored","category-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}