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Westminster Christian School senior Christian Bosque is the salutatorian of the Class of ’22.
He’s also a two-sport star athlete who has committed to play baseball at Florida International University next year. His other sport is basketball.
This year the Westminster basketball team won the district playoffs and moved on to regionals.
“I have a lot of fun playing basketball and I thought I could help the team out,” he says.
When basketball is finished, it’s on to baseball season.
“This year we have high expectations. Last year we went to the state finals, but we just came up short,” he says. “Most of the guys on the team were on the team last year. We’re hungry to go and finish it off this time.”
Last year he played second base. This year he’s shifted to first base.
“I enjoy playing first base,” he says.
Playing one sport leaves little time for extra curricular activities and playing two sports means that Bosque has even less time than most students to devote to things outside of practice and games. But he takes the time to help others by tutoring fellow students.
“They’ve come to me and asked for help, and I help them,” he says.
“Students know that I’m a very good student, especially in math. A couple of students, they’ll ask, can you help me in math, and I’ll help them 30 minutes to an hour a week during our flex period at school,” he says.
He’s currently helping two or three students with individual tutoring sessions.
Bosque also helps students outside of school. Recently, he’s helped someone who is a member of the same gymnastics as Bosque’s sister.
He says tutoring is technically supposed to be conducted through the National Honor Society, but students just keep coming up to him asking for help. “My goal is always to be a Christian student athlete role model”
In the summers and other school breaks, Bosque volunteered at basketball and baseball summer camps at Westminster.
“Sports teach discipline and sportsmanship and things I need for life and working together with others. And I like to pass that along to the younger kids,” he says.
He’d teach basketball to both boys and girls. And he’d teach baseball to the younger kids.
“I enjoyed teaching them. I like playing basketball and baseball so teaching them was fun,” he says.
Another way he helps the community is through Connect 4 Cancer, which he says is his main club at school.
“Every year I usually go for a project at the Ronald McDonald House,” he says. “We do arts and crafts with some of the kids who have cancer. I love seeing their smiles and that I made their day by just being there.”
He’s been able to go to Ronald McDonald House twice. He would have gone more often but COVID restrictions kept them from being able to work directly with the kids again. They had hoped to go again.
“I was looking forward to it a lot. A bunch of those kids were super funny and running around and playing. I love little kids, to be honest,” he says.
Bosque is also a member of Westminster Vision, a club that collects eyeglasses and donates them to organizations.
He’s also involved in the Science National Honor Society, the Foreign Language Honor Society and Mu Alpha Theta. He competes for Mu Alpha Theta by taking math tests.
Next year he will attend FIU to play baseball and to take Engineering.
“I still don’t know what field of engineering,” he says.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
