Brandin Strasser - July 15, 2010
Brandin Strasser is a fifteen-year-old grade 10 student who attends Assumption College and participates in track and field and excels in the sport of badminton
He has been playing badminton for 11 years and has taken part in track and field events finishing 1st for the 800m and 1500m races in 2008.
Brandin has received numerous awards for badminton including the 2009 & 2010 senior boys badminton MVP at Assumption College. In 2008 he won the Western Ontario boys doubles gold medal, the Western Ontario mixed doubles silver medal, the Western Ontario singles gold medal and was seeded 3rd in the boys doubles for Ontario.
He competes in both Provincial and National levels for badminton and the last two years he has traveled to OFSSA to represent Assumption College for badminton.
Brandin has been part of the Assumption Student Council for the past two years, he participated in the HOBY leadership program and has been involved in the Sears Drama Festival play Bang Bang Your Dead at Assumption advancing to the regionals and winning the Adjudicator award.
He tutors grade 8 students and last year received an academic excellence award. This year he will be receiving the award for dramatic arts for maintaining the highest mark in the school at 99%.
Brandin is a dedicated and hardworking honor roll student who maintains a 91% average. In the future he plans to continue his education at the University of Waterloo to study optometry, and one day become an ophthalmologist. He hopes that his high marks will result in him getting scholarships and bursaries for university.
Congratulations Brandin and good luck.
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