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Westminster Christian School senior Avah Jasmin Lopez loves to coach lacrosse. For three years she worked with the girls attending the Westminster Fun Camp teaching them the game.
“I worked mainly with elementary school kids,” she says. “I always invited middle school kids as well so there are one or two middle school kids involved.”
Lopez started playing lacrosse at Westminster in eighth grade.
“It has not been that long considering my experience now and my level now, but I put a lot of hard work into it,” she says.
That hard work led to being named to the Miami Herald’s First Team All Miami-Dade team and she was named to the Second Team All District. Her junior years, she was again named to the Miami Herald First Team All-Miami Dade team and First Team All-District.
She was also the Westminster Co-Defensive Player of the Year her freshman year, Defensive Player of the year her sophomore season and Most Valuable Player of the Year last year.
Lopez is the Westminster team captain and has taken on an even stronger leadership role this year since the school is currently between coaches. So, she’s talking to the athletic director about getting some weight room time so that the lacrosse girls can continue training until a new coach is named.
Lopez also plays club for Miami Soul.
At school, she’s on the leadership council. She was part of organizing Warrior Week, the week-long retreat taken by all Westminster students at the start of the school year.
“Now I’m part of the social media platform at school creating posts about the school,” she says. “We post it on our activities page. If we have a volleyball game, we post that.”
She’s a member of the World Language Honor Society, Rho Kappa, Mu Alpha Theta, the English National Honor Society and the Science National Honor Society.
Through the Science National Honor Society she participates in community service projects, including making yarn balls out of plastic bags that are given to homeless shelters and they make them into blankets.
She’s also a member of the Art National Honor Society.
“I do portraits, typical pencil and paper type work,” she says.
Next semester she takes an architecture class.
Her grandfather is a general contractor, so she grew up loving remodeling houses and rebuilding houses.
“I’ve always been around that,” she says. “I have the eye for it. I definitely wanted to do something in construction for a long time, but in architecture about a year.”
For three years, she participated in the drama program.
“We did a High School Musical film play,” she says. “I did Legally Blonde – I played Kate, her tutor.”
She also participated in a Broadway Night where she performed a piece from the Greatest Showman.
Lopez tutors for the National Honor Society, mainly in math, although she’s also tutored students struggling with English.
Her college list includes the University of Tennessee, Clemson, the University of Central Florida, North Carolina State, Florida International University, the University of Florida, Alabama and Marymount and as well as a few others. Architecture and Engineering top her list of potential majors. She will be the first person in her family to go to college.
While she has had offers to play lacrosse in college, she’s leaning toward attending a more academic institution and walking on at her chosen school.
Both her parents are entrepreneurs so it’s not surprising that she already has her own business.
She makes charcuterie boards and sells them for parties.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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