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Ransom Everglades School junior Avery Almazan works hard at school, playing soccer and volunteering.
“Mainly the things I do for community service have to do with soccer,” she says. “Ransom tends to host things for the community that we can do. I play a lot of soccer. Most of my time I coach little kids playing,”
She volunteers with the Soccer Life Foundation.
“We go to Armbrister Park in the Grove next to carver on Grand Avenue and coach them,” she says. “It’s’ a huge Ransom thing. We do a lot of meetings in school through Ransom Everglades Athletes Can Help (REACH).”
Ransom athletes do clinics during the school year.
“We go after school,” she says. “We go twice in one week and the boys go the next week.”
The Ransom girls team won the District 16 Championship and moved on to regionals this year. Last year, she was named an All-Miami-Dade Soccer Team Honorable Mention.
Outside of school she plays for two club teams, Girl’s Academy team out of Palm Beach Gardens and Elite Clubs National League (ENCL) out of Naples. Club leagues are where the college recruiters go to find talent and Almazan hopes to play in college. She has been chatting with schools of interest.
After college she wants to become a lawyer who specializes in business.
Almazan is a member of Symphonettes, a community service organization for girls. She says the group tries to do things that are fun such as fashion shows, auctions, and garage sales, as well as ushering at places such as Actors Playhouse.
She also volunteers for the American Heart Association. She’s involved because her father is the chair for the southeast region.
“I’ve been talking to my school to do a service project,” she says. “To provide more education about AED.
AEDs are Automated External Defibrillators, portable devices that use electric shocks to restore hearts to normal rhythm. Schools have them to help kids or adults who go into cardiac arrest.
“I’m trying to make it, so children have more education, so if they are put in that terrible situation, they know what they are,” she says. “My dad showed us a video of a young boy on the field in cardiac arrest. He could have been saved but no one knew where the AED was, and the ambulance couldn’t come in time.”
Athletic trainers usually bring the AEDs but if a team is at an away game or if the trainer isn’t there, it’s important for the students to know where the AEDs are in the school.
Almazan has spoken to the Health Club at school, and school administrators. She’s looking for a spot in an assembly to talk to the students. She hopes to get it done before the end of the school year.
At school, she is a member of Mu Alpha Theta, the National Honor Society for Portuguese and Spanish.
She is a member of the Miami Venture Entrepreneurship (MVE).
“There are meetings where we have guest speakers,” she says. “We have a presentation at the end.”
They also brainstorm about economics, finance and how to get businesses off the ground.
One of the things she likes to do is attend Lending to End All Poverty (LEAP) meetings.
“We go into class, and we make loans,” she says. “There’s a website where you can choose people online. Like donate 10 dollars to this woman in Africa to buy shirts for her shop.
They take this money to loan people. It gives it to these people, and they pay them back.”
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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