“I had to study before basketball and then study after, and I didn’t get very much sleep.” Basketball was just one of the five sports he played all three years he attended Westisle Composite High School.
All the dedication to his studies during that time paid off, as Shea, who was named co-winner of his high school’s Male Athlete of the Year award and the sportsmanship award earlier this month, significantly added to his haul Tuesday night, picking up the Governor’s General bronze medal as Westisle’s top academic student. He was clutching several other academic awards and prizes as he made his way out of the gymnasium following the two hour and 15 minutes ceremony.
Shea, who plans to study Medical Sciences at Dalhousie University and subsequently become a surgeon, admitted he knew he was in the running for the academic award and chewed nervously on the tassel of his graduation cap as the names of the school’s top 10 academic students were read off.
Graduation diplomas were presented to 170 graduates during Tuesday’s ceremony.
Brynn Smallman, the class valedictorian, reminded her classmates that their diploma “is really just your learner’s permit for the rest of the drive through life.” “Remember that the mind gives us direction, but the heart gives life meaning. Always have the ability to turn around and look in any direction.”
Smallman described it as an honour to be chosen by her fellow graduates to deliver the valedictory address.
“To move on in life with the lessons you’ve already learned and do your best in everything you can,” she said, was the key message she sought to get across to her classmates.
“I had to study before basketball and then study after, and I didn’t get very much sleep.” Basketball was just one of the five sports he played all three years he attended Westisle Composite High School.
All the dedication to his studies during that time paid off, as Shea, who was named co-winner of his high school’s Male Athlete of the Year award and the sportsmanship award earlier this month, significantly added to his haul Tuesday night, picking up the Governor’s General bronze medal as Westisle’s top academic student. He was clutching several other academic awards and prizes as he made his way out of the gymnasium following the two hour and 15 minutes ceremony.
Shea, who plans to study Medical Sciences at Dalhousie University and subsequently become a surgeon, admitted he knew he was in the running for the academic award and chewed nervously on the tassel of his graduation cap as the names of the school’s top 10 academic students were read off.
Graduation diplomas were presented to 170 graduates during Tuesday’s ceremony.
Brynn Smallman, the class valedictorian, reminded her classmates that their diploma “is really just your learner’s permit for the rest of the drive through life.” “Remember that the mind gives us direction, but the heart gives life meaning. Always have the ability to turn around and look in any direction.”
Smallman described it as an honour to be chosen by her fellow graduates to deliver the valedictory address.
“To move on in life with the lessons you’ve already learned and do your best in everything you can,” she said, was the key message she sought to get across to her classmates.
