001[Music] and to go to such a great school as Blue Ridge and live in this great community as we do and now as we prepare to move on as adults please help us to remember once we came and to begin our lives as contributing citizens in our good evening Blue Ridge students staff and families please join me in prayer our Father in heaven Gabriela [Music] Aiden Appa duck [Music] good evening Blue Ridge students Aiden Apodaca you [Music] good evening Blue Ridge students staff and families please join me in prayer our Father in Heaven we owe you our very existence as the Apostle you [Music] another turning point a fork stuck in the road time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go so make the best of this des the known as why
002it's not a question but a lesson learned in time it's something unpredictable I help you at the time [Music] so take the photographs and still friends and your mind [Music] Oh she'll be good [Music] tattoos and memories and dead skin on trial [Music] Wow something unpredictable right help you have the time of your life [Music] Oh [Music] maybe you don't understand what I'm going through slowly rate but you got to lose make up your mind tell me what are you gonna let it go [Music] [Applause] [Music] time for you [Music] you've been the that's right [Music] not see those eyes makes it so not and as we say [Music] every day can be a better day despite the challenge all you gotta do is leave it better than you found it it's gonna get difficult
003this timber hold your ballast I just say whatever cuz there is no way you're [Music] be fine is a [Music] some days you wake up nothing you gotta give your feet some gravity to get you grounded keep your things inside your ears just like the waves and sound it and just say whatever cuz there is no way [Music] it's [Music] you've got you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I came to win suffice to conquer became too [Music] today okay maybe they kind of make the pain go away couldn't forgive you for dancing am a crane but I think I'm still into the way angel away it's ranging away maybe that is why I chase strangers away they got their guns out aiming at me but I become neo in the a minute made me react
004intend be against enemies be against friends somehow they both seem to become one I speak for the shark the New York smell blood they start coming and I rise this let's be surprises I'm just imagine I win [Music] [Applause] [Music] everybody try to box me in suffocating every time and locked me in picking their own pictures and they cropped me in my head will buy me for the top tens cuz I am NOT a word I am NOT a lon I am NOT a girl that can ever be the phone I am NOT fly I am levitation I represent a generation till you become alive in a time of fear but when you so hard your name become Yankee Stadium be changing hi [Music] [Applause] get ready for get ready for I can get pretty
005far get pitiful get beautiful Kings win to fight to conquer to thrive became too [Music] [Applause] I can feel it coming in the air tonight Oh Lord can you feel it in the answer [Music] I've seen your face before my friend but I don't know if you know where you've been so bad I'm talking eyes [Music] can you feel it the answer [Music] Oh [Music] I remember don't worry how could I ever forget it's the first time the master know the reason why you keep your silence up no you don't fool me with her doesn't show the pain still grows that's no stranger to you and me you [Music] you [Music] hello everybody and welcome to the Blue Ridge High School twenty20 kovat 19 graduation we're gonna we're gonna kick this party off with the
006invocation by Miss Lauren Stidham good evening Blue Ridge students staff and families please join me in prayer our Father in Heaven we owe you our very existence as the Apostle Paul told the intellectuals in Athens and you we live and move and have our being we are amazed at your creation and we thank you for creating us in your image we thank you for creating us as feeling thinking sentient beings thank you for giving us the capacity to create and to communicate to love and to pray to grow and to improve ourselves in the lives of others we take none of this for granted and again we give you things we thank you for allowing us to live in this great country and to go to such a great school as Blue Ridge and live
007in this great community as we do and now as we prepare to move on as adults please help us to remember once we came and to begin our lives as contributing citizens in our society please make us all what you would like for us to be help us to be gracious in our curiosity help us to recognize and be grateful for the opportunities provided for us as we live our lives finally our Father we pray that you would bless our families our community and our beloved school and we pray all in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ amen thank you we will allow you to stay seated for the national anthem tonight but if you are out of your vehicle please rise and remove your hats [Music] please stay standing for the
008Pledge of Allegiance which will be led by our class president Josh Jones I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right you may sit down please welcome dr. Michael Wright for the superintendent's welcome thank you for joining us here tonight for these commencement exercises for the class of 2020 before we begin please join me in a moment of silence for all those that have lost their lives due to this copán Ben Deming thank you I acknowledge in attendance tonight local the religious governmental law enforcement leaders attending these proceedings and express our appreciation to them for their dedicated service I also wish to acknowledge our school board members Dave Merrill Margot Gabby
009Jennifer Brimhall Diana Butler and Chuck Waldo we appreciate your dedication and service to our schools in our community I also recognize our health care professionals and workers and first responders we can get the handle applause we recognize that they are putting their lives at risk every day attending to the needs of so many we honor you for your courage and your compassion may God bless you let us not forget all those who drive trucks stock shelves serve food care for children and all those that are doing so many other important jobs to keep our community running we acknowledge your essential contributions and express our things I also express gratitude for over a hundred teachers and a hundred and seventy-five members of our support staff that have worked for the past ten weeks tirelessly and supportive
010Blue Ridge students we thank you for your dedication and I would be remiss if I fail to recognize our administration team district-wide has spent countless sleepless nights worrying about their students and staff Thank You Gayle Courtney and Lauren and many others for investing so much of yourselves in the lives of others we appreciate you Thank You mr. Webb mr. crane mr. London the entire high school faculty and staff at Blue Ridge High School for tonight's proceedings and events lastly certainly but not least I thank every parent and guardian for your investment of time tears and sleepless nights reading over your graduates and thank you mom and dad especially mom for getting these kids out of bed each morning for helping them with their studies even especially this past ten weeks and for putting food on
011their plates providing a roof over their head and for loving them enough to set high standards we appreciate you now the current crisis in which we find ourselves is historic and one that you and I will both long remember if you'll please indulge me for just a moment I wish to share with you a couple of things I've learned through difficulties life and loved ones that I bet that has just experienced is tide over almost 60 years first have the courage to try move forward in faith especially if you feel in your heart what you must do is the right thing to do next every time you get knocked down get up and never ever give up like my uncle Harvey used to say you know remember it the best I can hear Mike if
012it ain't one thing it's too meaning life is full of challenges so embrace your problems and never give up it's part of life and lastly I wish to share what was taught to me by my late father dr. William Wright many years ago he looked at me and said son never let an old friend go so remember those kids with whom you've left loved and sometimes even cried never let them go so remember also please graduates be safe tonight make smart decisions take care of each other and know that we love you Godspeed thank you you good evening my name is Lorin Webb I'm the high school principal I want to thank you all for being here this night at this historic graduation before we get into my message I want to thank all those
013who played a part in getting us to this point I'd like to thank our maintenance and custodial staff for prepping our facilities setting up our screens I'd also like to thank Blue Ridge alumnus Jared Allen and AZ sound pros for their amazing production of this event tonight and also making it possible for those not in attendance to experience this event also through live footage being cast to the rest of the world through Facebook and YouTube I also want to thank christopher's Gardens Home Depot for supplying our our plants thank you dr. Wright and Board for support of our academic programs and also allowing us to come up with a creative way to recognize our graduating seniors thank you goes out to mr. crane and the rest of the high school staff that has worked hard
014to make this night successful also to all the teachers kindergarten on up wherever you may be in playing a role in helping these students reach this final destination in high school I also want to thank the parents who were patient with us as the staff has navigated these unchartered waters during the last few months also for sharing your children with us as we help them along their way in their educational journey final I thank you goes out to class of 2020 you did it it's just like you to come up with a way for their whole world to recognize the graduating senior class of 2020 I want to encourage you to continue to in your life to keep the fight and the determination you have shown over the last two months and the years before
015they got you to this point look back at what you've already endured many of you were born in the year that America was attacked in September of 2001 or in 2002 when the White Mountains faced the rodeo Chetta Skyfire now the whole world faces a pandemic which is altered the plans of how you finished up your senior year you instantly became an online student in a world which still hasn't figured out how to safely move forward your spring sports proms typical graduation activities have all been canceled or we had to be creative in how you were able to figure out and participate under the new rules as you go forward with whatever plans you have in the future take the determination and focus you have embraced and now make the world a better place we
016need your enthusiasm your energy knowledge and your creativity to make the impact that we know that all of you can do whether for me or for others in your morning announcements you've heard over the last six years here's a little variation of it make it a great world or not the choice is yours thank you wanna invite up now our our salutatorian Skylar rig for some remarks [Music] all right honk if you're happy to be graduating thank you we finally made it good evening everybody I'm Skyler Rigg and I'm so excited to be here as you know I'm second in class rank which is slightly awkward seeing as I've always lived by the Talladega Nights quote if you ain't first you're last but in this case I decided to go buy my six year old
017sisters wise philosophy first the worst second the best in all seriousness though I want to congratulate the valedictorians on their success I know that they have worked so hard to earn their title I also want to thank our school board dr. Wright mr. Webb and mr. crane and all the Blue Ridge teachers and administration for helping to get us here we are so grateful for you all I also want to thank all of our supporters who helped us get to this point our families friends parents and influencers are so appreciated especially today I know I couldn't have been here without them most importantly I want to congratulate my classmates I know we've all heard the spiel over and over again about how we've entered this world during the 9/11 tragedy we've lived through Wars and
018a recession and now we are graduating during a worldwide pandemic though we may be tired of hearing this by now it's important to remember this truth we have overcome everything that's been placed in our past so far our class has lived through some very traumatic worldwide events in addition to these we've also lived through our own local tragedies we've grieved the loss of teachers friends and classmates we have lost sporting championships and we've spent our last quarter of high school on zooom and in masks our class of 2020 has definitely faced its disappointments but it is important that these hardships that we have grown and be through these hardships we have grown and become strong and empathetic the class of 2020 is a class of over comers though we've been faced with our fair share
019of hardships together we have chosen to make the best of it our trials allow us to appreciate the good times and as Yellowjackets we have definitely had our dose of good times so many of us have known each other since elementary school and as we've had the chance to grow up together we've grown together together we've spent days skiing and snowboarding at sunrise we've hung out on the dock and rope swing at Xolo Lake we've watched the sunsets at Porter Mountain we've taken the dreaded ASVAB in AC T's together we've broken world records at our assemblies we've started every day off being entertained by the famous Paul and oats morning announcements we've cheered on our school teams at the home and two-way games until we've lost our voices at homecoming we danced until pants were
020literally ripped we have waited in line for hours at the movie theaters for premieres of our beloved Star Wars and Marvel movies we've gone to Denny's at 1:00 in the morning after dances rehearsals games and concerts we've showed the class of 2019 who the boss was when we conquered them in our annual powder puff and peach fuzz games as juniors that's my favorite we spent lunches and our favorite teachers classrooms messing around and just having fun we witnessed the most insane water bottle flips of all time in our own senior Commons we've duct-taped teachers to walls we waited in the never-ending taco during our lunch period we've rushed to work right after school we've had bonfires together during Homecoming Week and together we've truly made the best out of these four years though we may
021have been robbed of our last quarter of high school I truly believe that our class treated every quarter like it was the last taking it in and enjoying it with today being graduation it's crazy to think about where we were our freshman year or even just this last quarter of high school it honestly seems like a different lifetime so much has changed between now and then not only in the world but also within ourselves we really have come so far just to stand where we are today on graduation night this night of graduation stands as just another reminder that we will always finish on top and make the best of whatever is thrown our way though this isn't the graduation any of us had pictured we are still here and celebrating and honoring our achievements
022I am so grateful for my amazing class and all the memories that we've made together I feel so lucky to be graduating by your size this evening and when we remember graduating in 2020 let's not focus on the lack of toilet paper but instead let's focus on how we came together and made the best out of this situation I love you guys so much peace out Girl Scouts I close my eyes and I can see a world that's waiting up for me that I come through the dark through the door through we no one's been before and it feels like they can say they can say they can say they can say I lost my I don't care I don't care when you live in a world that weeds [Music] your dreams for the world
023we're gonna make [Music] they can say they can say I'm lost our minds [Music] we may be right you may be wrong but say that you see [Music] the [Music] Blue Ridge High School is very proud to have three class valedictorians this year please welcome Kayden Brimhall look at us look at us who would have thought so in all seriousness messy he's been dubbed the Messiah for leading Barcelona at the glory over Manchester United in the Champions League final but Leonel Andrews Leo Messi who is one of the most outstanding soccer players of all time was once banned from playing football because he was too small Messi had health problems as a child and needed expensive medication but factory worker dad Jorge and wife Cecilia a part-time cleaner could not afford the treatments despite his
024small size and medical problems Messi had a love for the sport and a determination to succeed he has so much he can teach all of us so we can learn from Messi's rise to success first Messi said you can overcome anything if you love something enough our life is determined by our perspective school was a challenge for us all I can't say that I really loved mrs. P's ap8 timed writings mrs. woods awful calculus test coach London's 400 repeats and coach cranes twenty minutes of torture workouts I can say that I loved to learn and improvement if I went into a test or a workout or a game within I've got this attitude I wanted to push harder it takes hard work and grit to capture our dreams Messi said I start early and I
025stay late day after day year after year it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success one of the hardest things is making it into the finals and coming up short in the moment it is as if you feel like all your hard work is all for nothing you have let your coach down and you have let your team down without those heartbreaking losses I would never had the desire to push harder and practice a 100% all the time it took us three years of losses to finally come home as state champions if we are satisfied with where we are in the present then we miss out on what we could be running cross-country and track our two sports that require a lot of hard work to stay in shape if
026we run all school year long and then we choose not to run during summer it's as if we're back to square one it is as if we did not run at all in the first place we cannot let up we don't rely on school skilled talent or ability to get by the most successful people in the world are constantly reading and learning they are not complacent with what their current knowledge is and they are always improving because they love to the refine themselves something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win Messi's quotes fits in with so much it was especially true with our soccer year this year our soccer teams model was conquer from within it means to get past your fear and doubts it
027means that you and only you can make the decision to win you decide to love the sport enough work hard enough and trust yourself and others enough to come to become champions we can't wait for opportunities to come we must make opportunities happen we work hard even if it takes years and years of work to succeed we must not blame others failures instead we look on ways to improve we cannot control our future they cannot control her speech err that is entirely up to us find a role model if you don't have one use Messi an example he could have blamed his size medical conditions poverty and mistreatment for his lack of success instead he's all of these weaknesses to add and to drive to become the best he showed everyone that love grit rigor
028precision and a desire to succeed made all the difference we can do the same thing together we are showing the world that we are ready to take the next step into the everyday life let's show everyone what the that what the Blue Ridge class of 2020 is made of thank you please welcome class valedictorian Paige flake my dad always says life's not fair and it's the truth as the class of 2020 we've missed out on many traditional American high school experiences powder puff and peach fuzz games our final stage performances our senior seasons of track baseball softball and golf senior pom the grand knight lock-in and most of all a traditional high school graduation however I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you to dr. right the school board and
029the Blue Ridge administration faculty and staff for replacing our graduation with something equally memorable especially Thank You mr. Webb and mr. crane for all of your hard work to make tonight possible time and time again you have shown your love and concern for us your students and we are grateful for you you have helped to eliminate the pain associated with this unexpected experience by giving us closure Thank You teachers for putting up with us all these years and expanding our minds thank you for not only being our teachers but for being our friends you really are superheroes and we love you thank you to our families for supporting and encouraging us we wouldn't have made it here without you lastly thank you to my classmates and peers you've made these past four years an incredible
030adventure as I thought of what I could possibly say to you all in this night the night of our unique graduation I struggle to put into words our experience well it's the same for all of us it's different for each of us this year more than any other you all are the inspiration here tonight I have watched this class put people first serve each other fight with each other and then make up and learn from mistakes you have dedicated years to navigate classes and competitions military programs and jobs outside of school we have been fiercely loyal to those we care about and we've protected each other we have had to split our time between friends and school work but we all know which one is a priority many have sacrificed time for fine arts performances
031and rehearsals many have spent hour upon hour outside of school to improve their athletic talents and represent blue ridge on and off the field court and Matt we have diligently attended sporting events losing our voices to support and inspire our peers to victories and more importantly to support them in losses we have worked hard to increase school spirit and younger students and in our community we have become a part of the blue ridge legacy together we have experienced loss and victory together we've gone through high school together we've survived this global crisis and now together we're closing the this chapter of our lives and moving on to new things we will never relate to the rest of the world's traditional high school experiences but they will never understand nor relate to ours we high school
032graduates of the class of 2020 share a special connection because of our unique role in this global pandemic countless people are already looking at us as we graduate in the midst of chaos we have received something that no other class has attention I mean every graduating class always thinks they're special but let's be honest no one ever remembers them it's different for us we aren't actually more special than all of the graduates who have come before us but when we tell someone I graduated in 2020 it will mean something people will recognize that that statement entails we will tell them about of our strength and our determination in the midst of incredible stress we responded to the changes in our lives with incredible maturity privately celebrating our accomplishments while respecting the lives lost and the
033uncertainty running rampant in the world today I believe that many doors will be opened to us because of our unique experience of graduating in the midst of global panic it is now our responsibility to honor those opportunities continuing to act with the same maturity and strength if we continue striving valiantly in the midst of life that doesn't go as planned we will seize those opportunities surprise the world in closing I will share an excerpt of one of my favorite speeches known as the man in the arena given by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 it is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of Deeds could have done them better the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose
034face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who airs who comes short again and again because there's no effort without error and shortcoming but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause who had best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat fellow graduates that is the best advice that I can pass on to all of us let's spend ourselves in worthy causes dared greatly to accomplish goals by doing so we will each continue to capture the world's attention as individuals as the class
035of 2020 and is a remarkable generation thank you please welcome class valedictorian Gretchen Knox he's gonna hold that speech for me alright so for this speech I decided to do the same idea I had for an election speech my eighth grade year my plan was to solve a Rubik's Cube during the speech and then on some cliche line about how I would solve the school's problems like I solved the Rubik's Cube the irony is that that speech was a total failure but you might already know by the fact that I'm up here that have a little bit of a compulsive need to do well and therefore I'm gonna try this again and hope I don't repeat my mistakes so mr. Webb scrambled this for me a little bit ago and I'm gonna take you on
036a little metaphorical journey throughout high school so freshman year we show up to high school not really knowing who we are but excited about what high school could bring at the same time however it seems like this big large problem of the next four years that we have to get through before starting our real life we take the first small step in high school though like solving a cross on a Rubik's Cube by establishing friend groups and starting the sports or clubs we plan on continuing throughout high school but mainly we just wish we weren't freshmen anymore because everyone hates freshmen and if only we were a sophomore at least we would be kind of cool but before you know it it is sophomore year and you start to make me feel a little cooler
037and older and everyone turns 16 and starts doing that subtle yet glaringly obvious brag of leaving their keys on their desk in every classroom so that everyone knows that you just got your license but really you just wish you were a junior and you could leave whenever you wanted for lunch and you just don't want to be an underclassmen anymore nonetheless more of the problem of high school is complete and you move on to your junior year everyone you during this year you realize that oh crap I need to make some serious decisions now all right because everyone starts asking you what do you want to do for college have you started looking at scholarships but really you're just watching those seniors graduate and you're sad everyone else is leaving and wishing you could be
038done and just go with them senior year though it's finally our turn right we're finally allowed to have senioritis although if you're me you were told you had senioritis the second day of your freshman year but anyway we start to really think we figured out who we are and we make all the big decisions about the next few years finally what we've been dying to have finished for the last four years is almost over right our focus has already shifted and we're just ready to have solved highschool we want to get on to the next part of real life while simply enjoying the last weeks of high school the class of 2020 had almost reached the satisfaction of solving or finishing high school like I've almost reached the satisfaction of finishing this when we had
039a bit of a wake-up call we lost so we had been dying to be throughout all of high school lost everything from senior prom to senior ditch day that short lived feeling of elation that comes with a completion or success faded more quickly than it would have without the virus this is a good reminder however not to take things for granted my point is that we spent all of high school trying to get through the problem of high school to get to the best part of high school only to realize that what we enjoyed were the times throughout it if there's anything the virus should have shown us it's that anything can change at any time and nothing is permanent if you cannot see the good in each moment now and be happy what makes
040you think you can enjoy each moment in your future as Annie Bernard said I wish there was a good way to know you're in the good old days before you've left them so my parting advice is simply to enjoy the rest of the years of your life enjoy each day and don't waste time wishing you were at the next part yes set goals but enjoy the process along the way so whether it's a college degree or new career don't worry about completing the next part of your life but enjoying every step along the way thank you let's hear some honks for those speeches please all right thank you hey I don't know if you guys have seen the photos taken by Mike Mahoney online but you can go down and down you can go into
041the inline online and download those for free they're beautiful photos and we'd like to thank Mike for taking those pictures we'd also like to thank mr. Chris Paz Paxman for the video you're about to see Adan apodaca Gabriela Amador [Music] [Applause] Noah let's swear [Applause] Jennifer Alfaro khylin Atkinson after serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints he will attend ASU and major in aerospace engineering raylene at acai [Music] Andreea Barajas she will attend NAU and major in criminal justice [Music] Josh barber he'll attend NPC and word [Music] Nadine Bailey will attend GCU and major in athletic science [Music] - Leeson be you'll be joining the United States Army [Music] Jesse Bennett will attend Universal Technical Institute [Music] Sierra Belknap will attend Brigham Young University to study genetics [Music] class valedictorian
042Kaden Brimhall he will serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints come home attend University and study premed [Music] summer finales she will attend zag ooh a I see where she's planning to study account [Music] Tamika Chino [Music] Martin salia will go to work in the construction field le Burgess will attend Brigham Young University and study Dietetics [Applause] [Music] Maile brewer [Music] so we Brewer plans to attend NPC and then Northern Arizona University [Music] Aiden Bomar [Music] Carter Berryman [Music] [Applause] [Music] Edda Carrasco Cox she will attend NPC and earn a degree in nursing [Music] Pressley Co say she will attend Fort Lewis college and major in nursing [Music] Maria Cisneros breathe [Music] Khai cemani has earned his certification in wildland firefighter [Applause] Kelly brown will attend Northern Arizona University [Applause]
043[Music] Giselle Coronado [Music] Shelby Coker will be attending pima Community College and transfer to the University of Arizona to study communications Tyler Cox will attend NPC [Music] Joella Douglas will attend NAU and study graphic design [Music] Jordan Dow's will attend Southern Utah University [Music] [Applause] [Music] Scott dines you will see where life takes [Music] lonna Fitz will attend Northern Arizona University and major in exercise science Cameron Hansen will attend Northern Arizona University and major in computer science Desiree Duran will attend north northern Arizona University [Music] class valedictorian Paige flake will be attending Brigham Young University in Provo to study political science and law [Music] Eli Ellsworth will look in Northern Arizona University [Music] gabriela Dunlap's will attend npc and nau and would like to go into auto mechanic Earvin Garcia [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jose Garcia
044is joining the United States Marine Corps Adrianna Garcia will go LLL attend Glendale Community College and studying nursing Guadalupe frost Oh Megan and Hannah Gillespie will attend NPC and study business [Music] coke Colton Gardner will attend NPC and then transfer to NAU [Music] be all [Applause] [Music] Alijah puppies [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Abigale hacker will attend the University of Texas and study architecture Severin Hanson will serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints Emily walls will attend Brigham Young University and studied mechanical engineering [Music] Jocelin Henderson will attend Northern Arizona University and major in behavioral psychology [Music] Lane halls serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints [Applause] [Music] Roberts parents will attend NPC and wants to get a bachelor's degree in psychology in Z Hartman
045will attend Mesa Community College [Music] same Eisenberg will attend in a beautiful Cyril Jack has joined the United States Army [Music] Josh Jones will attend Arizona State University in the fall [Applause] [Music] shada McClane Hill [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Nerra king will attend in DC in the fall and hopes become a Marine class valedictorian Gretchen Knox will attend the United States Air Force Academy to study computer science and become a pilot Chiara Kilpatrick earned her certification in welding [Applause] Alysa Kimbrel will become a semi driver [Music] Zeek Herman will attend NPC in the fall [Applause] [Music] Megan Lawler will attend Colorado State University to study equine science [Music] [Applause] [Music] Emily Krauss cops will attend Northern Arizona University [Music] Grady Massey has joined the United States Marine Corps [Music] [Applause] [Music] Danae leaves [Music] Jesse
046Massey [Music] [Applause] Brenna McGrew will attend Taylor University in Indiana to study psychology Josh miles will attend NAU and study neuroscience [Music] Wyatt Morgan will attend NAU to study Computer Engineering [Applause] [Music] Trent Liston [Music] michaela Montemayor will studies animations [Music] hope Mike slur will attend NAU and study statistics with her foreign exchange student aina bathroom yet [Music] anisia Perez is attending la universidad autónoma de Ciudad Juarez and Jayden Naranjo will go to work in construction [Music] Dyson Navarro will be an apprentice at a tattoo parlor [Music] [Applause] [Music] Kwami nosey will pursue a career in nursing [Music] [Applause] [Music] Cody peak will attend Gilbert Community College and pursue his electrical engineering degree [Music] Connor or nailless will attend Northern Arizona University and pursue a degree in biology [Applause] [Music] Aaron Parker will attend Northern
047Arizona University to pursue a degree in biology ashlynn Owens will attend college and pursue a degree in ultrasound melody paddle t will attend eastern Arizona College and then transferred to Southwest University of visual arts to become an architect Marie Ortega will attend MCC and pursue her degree in nursing [Music] [Applause] [Music] Aileen Paulson will attend Paul Mitchell school to pursue her cosmetology [Applause] Taliah Norris [Applause] [Music] Tommy Peterson will attend California Miramar University [Applause] [Music] inside [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] concepción Perez will attend MPC to pursue her nursing degree [Music] Samuel Rey will attend ASU to pursue a degree in nursing [Music] Aspen Petra Myers will attend MPC in the fall to pursue her degree in cosmetology walk right over to mr. Webb [Music] jool Parker will attend Northland pioneer college to finish her cosmetology
048sorted certification [Music] Isaiah Falaschi Oh we'll be enjoying life with Marines [Music] Jony Rao will attend MPC to pursue a medical career [Music] CJ Roybal will attend a community college to get his associates degree Jackson Pollock will attend embry-riddle Aeronautical University and study aeronautical science keyonna Preston will attend NPC in the fall [Music] Riley Phillips will attend NPC to become a pediatrician [Music] [Applause] [Music] Kaylee Phillips [Applause] [Music] class salutatorian Skyler is she will attend Brigham Young University to make her mama proud Vanessa Rosales will attend the University of Arizona Marisa platic will attend Northern Arizona University to study history [Music] Jackie sand of all will attend NPC and transfer to NAU to study psychology [Music] [Applause] [Music] Aaron Sandoval will attend Biola University in California to pursue a degree in cosmetology [Music] Tyson Savage
049has joined the United States Marine Corps [Music] Isabella Rudolfo [Music] Haley Weiland will attend the University of Arizona to study biology with a biomedical emphasis [Applause] [Music] Panna suka will attend the University of Omaha where she will study sign language [Music] Zoe shown will attend the University of Arizona to study neuroscience [Music] Tucker Smith will attend Mesa Community College to study business management [Music] Kirstin Stanfield will attend eastern arizona college to study physical therapy [Music] [Applause] [Music] Kiera Smith will attend theis turn Arizona College to study dental hygiene [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] marry Szabo will attend Grand Canyon University to study accounting [Music] fave Walker will attend the EAA to study physical therapy [Applause] mckenna thompson will study computer science along with graphic design and cyber secure [Music] Elizabeth Thompson will attend ASU to
050study nursing [Music] Caitlin Spillman will be moving to North Carolina [Music] [Applause] [Music] chase Sorensen will go to work and go to school [Applause] [Music] Nevaeh yahzee will attend northern arizona university [Music] Celestine vargas and Jalen llanes will both attend NPC and then transfer to the University of Arizona [Applause] Kalista Yost's will attend Northern Arizona University to study music education Alejandro Torres [Applause] [Music] Lauren Stidham has accepted the presidential scholarship at MPC and will work as an L in a while attending nursing school Riggs Wingert will attend eastern Arizona College for a semester and then serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints [Music] you [Music] okay [Music] take me [Music] you say there's so much you don't know you need to go and find yourself you say to rather be
051alone cuz if they think you won't find it tie it to someone else [Music] it only happens on their own they don't know [Music] I don't think you have to leave if the changes watching me you can train you try next when you're hired I'll take the lows you can have an I can flow and we'll take it slow [Music] as we go [Music] you won't be the only one I am unfinished I've got so much left to learn but I like the company through every twist and turn [Music] only happens on your own they don't know me you don't ever have to leave if to change is what you need you can change right next to me [Music] when you're high I'll take the lows you get up and I can flow then we'll
052take it slow and gross we don't cry as we go groans we go as we go [Music] I don't know who will become I can't promise it's not written in the stars but I believe that when it's done we're gonna say that it was better the way he grew up together tell me you don't wanna leave cuz it changes what you need you can change right next you can every can flow will take it slow and grow as we [Music] crawling as we go grow as we go [Music] grow as we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] let it go let it roll right off your shoulder don't you know the hardest part is over let it let your cleverly define you [Music] [Applause] [Music] these small [Music] these twists and turns [Music] take a little time
053to watch the sunrise [Music] maybe we can find answers there people been looking for nothing ever feels so right even only in the river [Music] take a little time to watch the night sky maybe we can find a lot of pies mr. Tommy watch me in the room [Music] [Applause] [Music] remember [Music] love for it between the lines I want to tie a child but in the end left me paralyzed it's all right goodbye seems like yesterday I was a child just a rebel in the folds of time I wish you ever want to see you smile [Music] goodbye [Music] lord knows which goodbye [Music] silly things I wanna say to you so many sleepless nights I bet he's falling you a hearts an ashtray and I lost my mind [Music] you bring the smokes
054I've got the time I want to speak [Music] I would hide it somewhere that's hard to find stop wasting time trying to shape your life [Music] a pretty bird my favorite lullaby but I become the thorn in your side all laughter turned into a cry [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right Blue Ridge good job guys I'd like to introduce two of our class officers to give the benediction conceptional and Perez and to do the turning of the tassel to Leah Norris dear Heavenly gracious I want to give thanks for all the memories we had made together we will definitely cherish our high school experience forever we have grown and compressed so much these past twelve years as really I'm sorry as we leave our separate ways I pray to the Lord to protect and
055guide each one of us to this new journey we're about to take bless them with hope so that they will move to into the future with eager and hope in hearts help them to put acknowledged skills and insight gains through the through their education and use the good of all human Heights amen all right classes 2020 where are you can I have you stand up with me get ready are you ready stand with me one last time as we do this all together hands in hands three two one and off they go congratulations class of 2020 [Music] be safe go home and celebrate [Music] someone else it's there [Music] someone else instead [Music] ooh [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] you