Smurthwaite, Carla

Carla Smurthwaite is an already graduated senior going to Brigham Young University - Idaho who is also continuing playing polo for their club. Her favorite memory this season was the Del Oro win not just because of the win but the growth the team portrayed throughout this game. Carla said, “I will miss jamming out to music coming from seminary to school with my siblings, family and friends in the car and talking until we need to head to class everyday.” Carla is also mindful about her upcoming transition to college, “The main difference between high school and college is mental and moral discipline. Once you move out and go to college, you have full right and privilege to sit in your room and eat cake and potato chips all day. Teachers and parents won’t be around to tell you otherwise. You have to have good friends to keep you on track and responsible in all areas of your life. If you can’t tell yourself to put down that soda or that tub of ice cream, you have to keep someone around who will. Your life is yours to live, shape, and create. You can live it up or let yourself down by falling into daily traps of pride, greed, or vanity.” Carla will be studying family consumer sciences which centers on the study of the home, marriage classes, psychology, and child development. Her goal is to create peaceful home environments and aid parents in correctly teaching and raising their kids. She isn’t quite sure what career path she is officially set on but she is slowly figuring it out as she goes. This summer she will be hustling with two jobs, playing club polo for California Republic, and heading out for school in late July.