Eliza Payne was selected as the 2012 Post Dispatch Scholar Athlete for Jennings Senior High.
Jennings
2012 Eliza Payne
Inducted 2012
Post Dispatch Scholar Athletes
Academic rank: 7 of 159
Sports: basketball, track
Academic bio: Senior of the Month … National Honor Society … 110% Award … ACT … SCHOLAR … Principal’s Honor Roll Student of the Month.
Athletic bio: All-state selection … Defensive Player of the Year … all-district team selection … first team all-conference … Academic All-State.
Activities: Science Club … Math Club … Jennings Ambassador … Yearbook Club.
College: Langston University (pre-medicine)
Goal: “I hope to be able to help my family and also be a missionary to Africa to help the people there.”
Favorite subject: Math and Literature. “They both make your mind wonder.”
Favorite book: Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Favorite musician: Dahlak Braithwe
Role model: “My parents, because they are the ones who raised me right. I can only hope to do as good of a job as they do when I have to raise my own children.”
Personal story: “Freshman year in high school, I broke my finger in half and was shot in the lower back and it exited out my buttocks. I had to use a walker for a while to regain strength.”
