Over the past three years I was elected a junior volleyball captain, I am member of the Wyomissing Recreational Board, I was a Corps Fitness leader and I was invited to a leadership camp at Valley Forge Military Academy. These past few years has been the time I realized I need to pursue a career with a leadership role and no better place to develop my qualities than the Coast Guard Academy. I believe I possess basic qualities of a natural born leader that others do not possess and that I can molded into an even better leader through hard work and dedication. I became a junior captain on the volleyball team this past year and lead our team to the county playoffs for the third year in a row. Simultaneously I interviewed and was given a seat on