Jordan Turner

Senior Jordan Turner of Casco has been named the Rotary Club’s “Citizen of the Month” for October.

Each month, the Rotary Club recognizes a Lake Region High School student who displays good citizenship and contributes to the school community. The recipient is honored at a Rotary breakfast meeting and is presented a savings bond.

Parents: Angelique Breton and Jeff Jones.

Siblings: Devynn Turner, Tyler Jones, Samantha Jones and Kharlie Turner.

Activities: Varsity basketball and varsity soccer.

Community activities: Jordan helps coach rec soccer, volunteers at elementary schools, and also volunteers at summer/spring sport camps.

Hobbies: Sports and volunteer wok.

Future plans: To go to the University of Maine at Farmington to become a teacher and hopefully come back to the Lake Region area to teach.

Schools that you have or will apply to: UMF, University of Maine at Orono and the University of Southern Maine.

What is your favorite class? I really enjoy history classes because it’s different than learning a formula in math, you learn something about your actual history and find out how everything evolved.

What is your toughest class? My toughest class would have to be math, it’s not that I’m bad at math it’s just it takes me a couple tries to wrap my head around a new idea quickly.

How do you balance your class work and your extracurricular activities? My coaches are usually pretty good at understanding our class load. They’ll give us team study halls before practice sometimes. As for work, I work for my mother so she’s pretty understanding, as well.

What is the biggest challenge high school students’ face today? I believe the biggest challenge high school students face is trying to find out what they want to do after high school. I’m lucky enough to have known what I wanted to do since I was in seventh grade. A lot of my friends have absolutely no idea and I believe that’s because high school is so structured. There isn’t a lot of space to venture out.

Who has inspired you educationally? I wouldn’t say a person has inspired me as much as athletics have. Athletics have always been a big part of my life and if I don’t achieve my academic goals then I can’t participate in my athletics.