Brooklyn Hankins is a senior at Champion High School that has done water polo, Theatre productions, and balanced a tremendous social life and schedule, but it hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows to get there.
Hankins has juggled many activities ever since she moved to Boerne last year. She’s been a part of a water polo club that trains at the Alamo Heights Natatorium, as well as the theater department and water polo team here at Champion.
In order to keep touch on all of her and her family events, she and her family set up a way to schedule them.
“We have a family calendar that all of my family sees, like on our phones and stuff.” Says Hankins.
Even with the calendar, which helps her schedule all of her events, she still has to prioritize. Her priorities always start with school, then follow with extracurricular activities.
“I think water polo is my number two priority, right now in my life.” Hankins said.
Because water polo is one of her top priorities, she prefers to stay optimistic so her performance isn’t affected in the game.
“Or I would n’t say a part of our team looks down, some people are negative when things don’t go their way,” Hankins said. “I like to be an optimistic person to help people, let them know: ‘Hey, it’s going to be okay, we’ll play again.’”
Hankins’ personality hasn’t gone unnoticed either.
“I was super stressed out over a giant project that was due two weeks ago and I never finished it and was trying to get it done and it was just really hard and she was trying to calm me down.” Said sophomore Inara Hohimer, a former classmate of Hankins.
During the months of August and October, Hankins was a scarer for Six Flags and it was there that her kindness even reached her coworkers.
“Earlier this year, in Fright Fest, we were in two different houses and her house was all the way across the park. So we were in two different haunted houses, so we never really saw each other. Every single time we walked by or got makeup in the same area, she would always come up and say hi, and she was always super energetic and excited.” Said senior Kiera Petty, Hankins’ coworker.
