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Editor’s Note: Más plans to regularly publish mini-profiles highlighting local youths and their academic/athletic accomplishments. Know of any students worth profiling? Send your nominations to Olivia Garcia, Más managing editor, at 716-8644 or e-mail at ogarcia@masbakersfield.com. Please include contact information.

NAME: Leonedes García
AGE: 16
HOBBIES: Soccer, running, Tae Kwon Do
GRADE: Junior at Delano High School
HOMETOWN: Delano

About Myself:

  I’m currently a junior at Delano High and come from a Mexican background.

  My parents migrated here from Sinaloa and have more than 18 years living here in Delano. 

  I’m very involved in extra-curricular activities.  I run cross country, play soccer, and run hurdles for track.

  Outside of school, I practice Tae Kwon Do. 

  Besides sports, I am involved in S-club, which gives back to the community, MEChA/Maya, a Hispanic cultural club, Live Wire, our school newspaper, and I’m junior class president.

  I’m currently taking honors and AP classes to get the most out of the education provided to me. I’m not sure what I want to study, but I do want to be accepted into a good university.