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Cross Makes Most of High School Years

Oswego student-athletes earn awards, select colleges

How many of us wish we would have been more active during our four years of high school?

Reynolds Cross has no regrets!

The 2011 graduate of Oswego High School was busy the last four years
academically and athletically.

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The North Central College in Naperville presidential and alumni scholarship award-winner will study elementary education. A member of the National and Oswego Technical honor society, Cross played four years of girls tennis and two years of girls soccer.

She was all-Southwest Prairie Conference and captain during the girls tennis season in the fall and all-academic in the league.

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Cross also was a senior mentor and community service award winner.

Among the other scholarships she earned were the Daryl Thompson Memorial Scholarship and the Community Foundation Scholarship, in memory of Marilyn A. Foote.

Mallory Brainerd plans on majoring in biology at Augustana University in Davenport, Iowa.

She was a captain during her senior season in both volleyball and softball.

Brainerd collected 80 kills, 131 digs, 38 blocks and 25 aces for the girls volleyball team last season. In the spring, she had 17 hits for the softball team.

Softball player Tayler Lofthouse was a member of the Oswego Technical Honor Society and will study education at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove. The part-time pitcher had 11 hits, 17 RBI and struck out just seven times in 71 at-bats for the Panthers.

Alexis McClain was a captain and all-SPC in girls basketball. She will study criminal justice at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida.

Paige McKinley, who played badminton and tennis, will attend Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, to study nursing.

Jessica Noesges plans on studying special and elementary education at Eastern Illinois University in downstate Charleston. She was a member of the Oswego Technical Honor Society and softball teams at Oswego.

Bowler Kodie Skinner will study special education and social work at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.

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