b'2020 Scholarship Foundation Utah, WashingtonandAssociate TMSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONnh t oa gt nU ihsaWUT WARecipientIsaac Blair RecipientRylee StullerHis can do attitude helped Isaac Blair of La VerkinBeing the first person in her family to attend awin the WPMA Scholarship for the state of Utah. Isaac, the 2ndfour-year universityis an admirable goal for Rylee Stuller of of five children of Eugene and Rayn Blair, applied for the WPMAStanwood, Washington. Rylee is the 2020 recipient of the WPMA Scholarship through Offen Petroleum, where his father EugeneScholarship for Washington State. The younger of two children of works as the Administrator of Pricing and Supply.Michael and Allene Stuller, she applied for the WPMA Scholar-Graduating from Hurricane High School in Hurricane, Utahship through Skagit Farmers Supply in Stanwood, where her in May with a 3.9 GPA, Isaac was ranked near the top of hismother Allene works as a Store Manager.graduating class, while taking a class load full of honors classes.Rylee graduated from Stanwood High school in June with a 3.6 He excelled in his core classes such as math, science and reading, GPA, ranked in the top third of her graduating class while taking always studying and practicing hard to achieve good grades anda schedule full of honors, CP, CTE and AP classes. Rylee wrote: test scores. Through his high school and extra-curricular activi- Both of my parents went straight to work after high school in ties, Isaac learned great tenacity and hard work.order to make it possible for my mother to be a stay-at-home Isaac ran on the varsity cross country team for three years, servingmom. Even my brother went into a full-time job as a high school as captain of the team in his senior year. He also played on thegraduate . I value a higher education because, to me, it repre-baseball team all four years, and served as captain of that teamsents everything my parents have worked so hard for. Rylees too. He earned team and individual Academic All-State honorscounselor wrote: Rylees academics are very important to her for his participation in cross country and in baseball. During hisand she strives to only do her best work. As a student with high junior year, Isaac was hit in the face by a 90-mph baseball, whichexpectations, she is determined to push herself to the next level in broke the whole right side of his face. He had to have extensivethe classroom and beyond. Rylee is very motivated and pursues facial surgery, and missed more than a month of school recover- her goals with intensity and purposefulness.ing, but he worked hard to rise above the situation with a can doParticipating on the Stanwood High School swim team for four attitude and was able to keep his grades up. years, Rylee served as one of the varsity team captains in her se-As a junior Isaac added wrestling to his sports participation. Henior year. She also served as the manager of the Boys Swim team, says wrestling taught him more than ever to never give up, andand earned a varsity letter for her efforts. She was a member of to keep trying. As a first-year wrestler he placed sixth at the statethe girls tennis team for four years and was looking forward to wrestling competitions and earned a varsity letter, and he servedearning a varsity letter as a senior. She wrote: Participating in these athletic activities has taught me much more than how to win continued on page 14 continued on page 1512 www.wpma.com / Summer 2020'