Big Walnut’s Ashley Meade 2012 Junior Fair Queen

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

Most area soc­cer fans are accus­tomed to see­ing Big Wal­nut High School senior Ash­ley Meade on the fut­ball pitch (a.k.a. soc­cer field) dur­ing girls’ var­sity games. Many may not know, how­ever, that Meade is also an active mem­ber of Koun­try Kids 4-H Club, show­ing goats and turkeys.

Meade has also earned the dis­tinc­tion of being selected to serve as the 2012 Delaware County Junior Fair Queen, pro­vid­ing fair­go­ers with a pos­i­tive 4-H role model through­out the week­long fair while still show­ing her own 4-H projects.

Dur­ing the Delaware County Fair Meade attends project shows where she hands out tro­phies, plaques and rib­bons, thanks project buy­ers for sup­port­ing area youth, and attends the Lit­tle Brown Jug as the Junior Fair representative.

“I feel very hon­ored to be this year’s Delaware County Junior Fair Queen,” Meade said. “I’ve been involved in 4-H all of my life, and now in my senior year being able to rep­re­sent some­thing I’ve grown up with is a neat expe­ri­ence for me.”

In addi­tion to play­ing on the girls var­sity soc­cer team at Big Wal­nut, Meade is a mem­ber of the National Honor Soci­ety, His­tory Honor Soci­ety, Math Honor Soci­ety and Span­ish Honor Soci­ety as well as the Span­ish Club, Leo Club and Big Brothers/Big Sisters.

Meade is also a mem­ber of the Big Wal­nut High School March­ing and Con­cert bands, vol­un­teers to teach Span­ish in the school district’s ele­men­tary build­ings, par­tic­i­pated in Eagles First Flight that men­tors incom­ing fresh­man stu­dents, and has been involved in the high school’s Drama Club in the past.

Out­side of school, Meade is a mem­ber of the Delaware County 4-H Aware­ness Team, a mem­ber of the Junior Fair Board and the Hope Lutheran Church Youth Group.

Meade said she is not cer­tain where she will attend col­lege, but Otter­bein is at the top of her list; and she does want to study Span­ish, but is unde­cided about the rest of her future aca­d­e­mic pursuits.

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