b'2020WashingtonRYLEE STULLERScholarship Recipientscontinuedcontinued from page 12 WPMA joins with the Washington Oil Marketers Association to congratulate a race or how to hit a ball. I have learned what itRylee on a job well done. Her positive attitude and strong work ethic have means to be a teammate and what it means to be ahelped her accomplish great things in the past and will serve her well as she leader. Rylee also spent one year on Link Crew, abegins her studies at the university this fall. Sclub designed to help incoming 9th grade students with their transition into high school, and was aAssociate-at-largeELIZABETH GILMOREmember of the National English Honor Society, continued from page 13a club for students who enjoy cultivating theirlove of literature. Playing sports was a vital part of Beths high school experience, and she wrote that it provided a fun release from the challenges of school. She played girls soccer on the Murray High School team during her freshman to junior years. Outside of school, she also played 10 years for the Murray Soccer Club, and then branched out to join the high schools tennis, track, and water polo teams. Outside of school, Beth worked summers, after school and on weekends at several lo-. The cal businesses, and she helped with youth activities at her church. The summer before Scholarship her senior school year, she baked and sold cookies and desserts in order to earn the Recipients are money needed to travel on a humanitarian trip to Ecuador, where she assisted in build-Rylee Stuller (top) swims her leg of the 200 medley relayselected by a ing a school for a community in need. Beth during a swim meet. recently discovered an interest in drawing and WPMASelection she enjoys sketching in her free time. She also loves being outdoors, whether in the moun-Committee that tains or just in her yard.consists of a Beth will attend the University of Utah in Salt Lake City this fall, where she plans to high school teacher major in psychology. She wrote: College is a place where I can grow in responsibility and a college and independence as I step further onto my educational path, set goals of my own choos-professor . ing, and take advantage of the broad class Rylee (center) and the other seniors were honored choices. On her choice of career path, she at their last swim meet. wrote: While Im open to various academic After school and on weekends, Rylee has worked aspaths, I have developed strong interest in psychology, and would love to study a lifeguard at the YMCA and has a weekend job at acertain aspects of the brain and how it relates to behavior. Ultimately I would local horse stables. She also worked at a local storelike a career path that would allow me to put psychology and neuroscience into during the holiday season. In her free time, shepractice in helping neuro-diverse individuals. Beth recently was awarded the enjoys listening to music, reading, and just hangingFor Utah Scholarship from out with her friends and family. the University, which will help with her tuition and fees. Central Washington University in Ellensburg isTogether with the WPMA Rylees destination this fall, where she plans toscholarship, she should be work toward a degree in law and justice. Her coun- able to graduate with little or selor wrote: Rylee is a life-long learner and hopesno student debt.to earn a four-year degree in Forensic Science orIt is evident that Beth has Criminal Justice. She hopes to have a career as aplanned and prepared herself Forensic Scientist or in a related law enforcementwell for this next step in her field. Rylee wrote: It is clear to me that CWU iseducation. We can see that the right institution for me because not only does itwith her great work ethic, have an accredited law and justice program, but itdesire to serve, and open-is not incredibly far from home. Family is very im- ness to try new things, she portant to me, so being able to go to school some- will continue to achieve high where where I can learn how to live out on my own,marks as she continues on to while still being close enough to drive home to mythe university.Beth Gilmore (left in white) fights for the ballfamily for the weekend is something that I value. S in a soccer match.WPMA News / Summer 202015'