Valedictorian – Sydney Mulqueen Sydney Mulqueen’s passion for the sciences was fostered throughout her 13 years as a student at Fort Worth Country Day. As a result of the School’s stimulating college-preparatory curriculum and her summers serving as a junior volunteer at Cook Children’s Medical Center, she knows she wants to attend medical school, with aspirations to become a pediatric doctor. Inducted into the Cum Laude Society as a junior, Sydney always challenged herself in the classroom academically and by learning to balance her activities. As a junior, she received year-end awards as the top student in math, English, Latin and history, and she graduates having successfully completed eight Advanced Placement courses. Her resume of activities is lengthy: TEAM Service, Link Crew, Project Prairie, FWCD student ambassador, Breakthrough Boutique and pianist. A National Hispanic Scholar, Sydney was honored at this year’s Upper School Awards Assembly with the prestigious Andrew Cordell Community Service Award and the Ted Sanford Award for excellence in ballet. Service is central to Sydney’s life; she loves volunteering and knowing that she is impacting the community in a positive way. Sydney will attend the University of Notre Dame in Indiana where she plans to major in neuroscience.
Salutatorian – Melody Rodriguez A Fort Worth Country Day “Original,” Melody Rodriguez excelled in her Falcon journey. A National Merit and National Hispanic Scholar, she was inducted into the Cum Laude Society as a junior and graduates having successfully taken nine Advanced Placement courses. At the Upper School Awards Assembly, Melody received the Mathematics Chairman Award, Outstanding Students of the Sciences Award, the R.D. Varnell ’88 National Merit Award, and the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Award. As gifted athletically as she is academically, Melody also earned the Varsity Award for 12 seasons of athletics—cross country, girls’ basketball, swimming, and track and field. The FWCD record-holder in the 1600m, she also earned All-SPC honors in cross country three times. In the pool, she set six School records, was crowned SPC Champion in 2015 and earned Academic All-State honors as a junior and senior as well as Private School First-Team All-State status as a freshman, junior and senior. Her well-rounded development included being both a TEAM Service member and an FWCD student ambassador throughout her Upper School tenure, as well as fostering her love for the arts: She performed in Legally Blonde, Pride and Prejudice, Damn Yankees!, and Rehearsal for Murder. Melody will attend Stanford University in the fall.
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