CARA STOCKHAM
School: Hammond High School
Hometown: Columbia
Age: 18
Cara is an honor roll student with a grade point average of 3.83. She is enrolled exclusively in honors, gifted and talented and advanced placement classes.
As a student at Hammond, she was a reporter for the school
newspaper, the Bear Press, her sophomore year, page editor during her junior year and editor-in-chief this year.
She was a member of the French Club in her freshman and sophomore years. Cara was elected junior class council secretary.
At Hammond, Cara is a three-sport athlete. She was a member of the junior varsity field hockey team as a freshman and of the varsity field hockey team for the next three years. Cara was a member of the junior varsity basketball team as a freshman and sophomore and was captain of the team as a sophomore.
Cara also played junior varsity lacrosse as a freshman and sophomore and was captain for the team in 10th grade. She played varsity lacrosse last year and plans to play again as a senior.
Outside school, she was employed as a transcriber/typist by the Howard County Public school system in its summer curriculum workshop in 1993.
Cara's parents are Charles Stockham and Caroline Disney. She has a brother, Andrew, who is 16, and a half-brother, Brady, who is 6 months old.
Plans: She has been accepted at the University of Maryland in the honors program and plans to pursue a double major in math and journalism.
Her comments: "I do so much better when I have sports in my life. I have practice until 5 p.m., then I eat and then I do my homework. It gives me a lot of discipline, and it doesn't interfere with my studies."
On her choice of a double major, she said she enjoys writing and is good at math and "likes it."
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