{"id":9580,"date":"2018-11-23T19:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T19:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2018-11-23T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T19:12:22","slug":"wrhs-senior-haley-bjorkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/23\/wrhs-senior-haley-bjorkman\/","title":{"rendered":"WRHS Senior Haley Bjorkman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Receives Columbia Basin College scholarship to play volleyball<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Emilee Mae Struss<\/em><\/p>\n

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Haley Bjorkman. photo by Justine Beriker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Utah native Haley Bjorkman moved to the Wood River Valley when she was 4 years old and has lived here ever since with her parents and three older brothers.
\nBjorkman is an honor-roll student that has played the cello for eight years, is a three-sport athlete, and is currently enrolled in two Advanced Placement courses and two dual-credit courses. This semester, Bjorkman is taking AP Government, AP Environmental Science, Calculus, and College English.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to balance everything sometimes,\u201d Bjorkman said. \u201cThankfully, my school counselor gave me a free first period to offset late nights coming home from away games.\u201d
\nBjorkman is a four-year varsity starter in basketball and a two-year varsity player in volleyball. She played junior varsity for her freshman and sophomore year in volleyball prior to moving up to varsity as a junior. Bjorkman participates in two separate seasons of volleyball, playing school volleyball in the fall and club volleyball in the spring.
\nHer sights are already set on Columbia Basin College, in Pasco, Wash., for next year, to pursue nursing and to play volleyball. Unlike most students that discover where they want to attend college, Columbia Basin College found her.
\n\u201cThe head coach [Michael Jordan] called and said I\u2019ve watched you play for the past three years, and I\u2019d like to invite you out to practice with our team,\u201d Bjorkman said during an interview.
\nShe traveled to the school, practiced with the team and walked away with a scholarship to attend the school and play volleyball at a collegiate level.
\nBjorkman said that she tried out orchestra when she was in fourth grade because she saw a flyer for it and her friends encouraged her to try it with them.
\n\u201cMost of my friends chose to play the violin,\u201d Bjorkman said. \u201cI wanted to try something a little different so I chose the cello and I\u2019ve played ever since.\u201d
\nBjorkman said that her teacher, Rebecca Martin, has been a huge supporter in her development as a cello player. Likewise, Bjorkman mentioned the head women\u2019s basketball coach, Amanda Crist, as another great influence on her life.
\nOne of Bjorkman\u2019s greatest memories playing the cello was performing at the Pavilion in Sun Valley with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. She had the opportunity to play with a mixed group of talented youth representing Wood River High School, Sun Valley Community School and a number of students from Boise.
\n\u201cThe thing I really like about orchestra,\u201d Bjorkman said, \u201cis that you have your own part to play independently but you\u2019re also working together to make the full sound as a group.\u201d
\nBjorkman doesn\u2019t have much time left in the Valley but takes many great lessons with her, one of them being how to push through injuries. Bjorkman says Crist has helped to remind her that she can take a step back, give herself time to heal, and come back stronger than ever. And stronger than ever she will need to be to live by Columbia Basin\u2019s tagline, \u201cAll In. Die Empty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Receives Columbia Basin College scholarship to play volleyball By Emilee Mae Struss Utah native Haley Bjorkman moved to the Wood River Valley when she was 4 years old and has lived here ever since with her parents and three older brothers. Bjorkman is an honor-roll student that has played the cello for eight years, is […]<\/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":[32,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-schools","8":"category-sponsored","9":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580","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=9580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9580\/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=9580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}