{"id":12523,"date":"2019-12-25T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T23:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2019-12-25T23:59:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T23:59:10","slug":"sascha-leidecker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/25\/sascha-leidecker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SASCHA LEIDECKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Finding her truth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Eric Valentine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I could change one thing about the world, I think I would teach people to be more accepting and to be tolerant,\u201d says Wood River High School senior Sascha Leidecker.<\/p>\n<p>That lesson would be befitting to come from the product of an architect mom from the Midwest and a mountain-guide dad from Northern California who saw past regional differences and fell in love at an East Coast Ivy League school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo much violence, disrespect and negativity stems from people\u2019s inability to accept and respect people who are different than them. I think that if everyone accepted each other a little bit more, the world would be a much better place to live in,\u201d Leidecker adds.<\/p>\n<p>Leidecker is a lifelong resident of the Valley who enjoys the outdoors, even when it comes to her involvement in WRHS sports, from cross-country and track to Nordic skiing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love being outside and I always feel calmer and happier after I\u2019ve worked out outside,\u201d Leidecker said. \u201cI also love getting to do these sports with my friends. It is such a fun environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leidecker has garnered a 4.12 weighted GPA over the years, and continues challenging herself in A.P. Psychology, A.P. Literature, A.P. Statistics, A.P. Government, debate, and sociology. In addition, she\u2019s involved in Model UN and does peer tutoring for several students in the high school. She plans to take these skills into law school one day, but is still undecided on which university she wants to attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to attend a good law school and become a lawyer,\u201d Leidecker explained. \u201cMy ultimate goal is to become a partner at a successful law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wherever she goes, Leidecker says she\u2019ll look back fondly at her experience living in the Valley.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>\u201cMy favorite thing about the Valley is the community and the environment that the community fosters, especially for students. There are so many amazing opportunities for students, and the community is so supportive,\u201d Leidecker observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding her truth By Eric Valentine \u201cIf I could change one thing about the world, I think I would teach people to be more accepting and to be tolerant,\u201d says Wood River High School senior Sascha Leidecker. That lesson would be befitting to come from the product of an architect mom from the Midwest and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9332,"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":{"0":"post-12523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sponsored","8":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523","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=12523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}