Lexie Lit, Legacy High School

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“Strong and proud, we’ll shout out loud. Let’s give up a cheer for LHS!”

Strong and proud; the perfect two words to explain how I feel about Leg acy High School. Thinking back to freshman orientation, I have to laugh. Walking through those LONG hallways and MILLIONS of classrooms, 14-year-old me was terrified. I only had the friends I knew from middle school, and they didn’t even make-up ⅓ of all the other freshmen I saw in the stands.

As I entered the big gym and sat with the few people I knew, we all listened as the seniors in front of us taught us our “Legacy Cheers.” Most of my friends were nervous to join the chants and be truly loud. However, as the fight song was taught to us, I got the power to feel loud. I yelled, “Strong and proud.” At that moment I really did feel strong and I felt proud to be going to Legacy High School.

Four years later, nothing has changed. As graduation is coming closer and closer, I find myself looking back on the past four years and my proudest moments. All of them have one thing in common; being part of a community. From football games at Friday night lights and senior desserts, to haunted houses and spring pep rallies, I felt a part of a larger community. Legacy helped me feel like I was never alone. Even though I walked the hallways as a freshman with hundreds of kids I didn’t know, and past classrooms I had never stepped foot in, I felt supported and guided.

Legacy taught me to find strength in weakness, and to turn my struggles into my power, and therefore something to be proud of. Although the last four years have been some of the hardest years of my life, they have been the best years of my life, and I must thank my friends, family, and my high school.

As I head onto college, I hope to carry a sense of community and pride with me everywhere I go. I hope to create that sense of community within the new school I join and show others the strength that I have learned. When I come across another hallway, or another group of kids I don’t know, I will feel a sense of comfort in knowing that soon I will find that community again. From the time that I graduate to when I’m 80-years-old in my living room with my kids, I will tell them stories about Legacy High and how I am, and forever will be, a Legacy Bolt.

After graduation, Lexie will be attending CU Boulder and studying behavioral neuroscience, as well as running track and field.