Melinda Balades '17 Recruiting Profile

I am always seeking out new challenges to improve myself while refining and maintaining the goals I have already accomplished. Maintaining a 4.5 GPA (on a weighted scale), making Varsity and finishing the season with high regards from both my coaches and teammates, as well as continually searching for new chances to improve myself, are only some of the achievements that have contributed to my development. Each obstacle, whether I struggle or succeed makes me more confident, more intelligent and a stronger individual who is always striving to push my body and mind to the limit and then some. My passion drives everything I do and paves my path to never stop excelling, to encourage others around me, and strengthens my mindset to always put all I have into my sports, education, and other responsibilities. I am never afraid to pit myself against the best and, as a result, I am always expecting others to do the same. I hope to find a college who can offer me a promising education for the engineering career that I wish to pursue and an elite sports program that will teach me everything they know. As a young, aspiring student-athlete, my expectations are always high, but only because I will be more than ready to return them in the end.