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Eloise Miles is the Palmer Trinity School Silver Knight nominee in the Business category.
Miles has her own baking business called Eloise Bakes. She’s been baking muffins, cookies and cakes throughout high school. She’s best known for her chocolate chip muffins.
She has donated thousands in profits to the Women in Sports Foundation.
“I did an eighth-grade project on sexism in sports,” she says. “It resonated with me. I’m a three sports athlete. I found the Women in Sports Foundation online.”
Summer is when she has the most time to bake. Christmas and Thanksgiving are also busy baking times for her. Customers contact her through her Instagram page or text. All sales are local.
During the school year, Miles runs cross country, plays soccer, and runs in track and field meets. Sometimes the sports conflict, as they did earlier this fall when she had another 20 days of cross country and soccer season had already started. She and the cross-country team did well in the district championships and qualified for regionals.
“Soccer overlaps track and field, but not much,” she says.
Last year the soccer team made it to the regional finals. The current team has a 9-2-1 record with several games remaining.
In track and field, Miles participates in the long-distance events, the 1600, 3200 and 800 meters. She gets on the winner’s podium often, especially in cross country.
Miles enjoys long distance running so much that she’s competed in two half marathons. In both freshman and junior years, she earned sixth place in the Lifetime Miami Half Marathons for age 19 and under. This year she plans to run in the Disney Half Marathon.
She hopes to continue to run half marathons while in college. Her goal is to run a full marathon when she has time to fully train.
Her extracurricular activities include being president of three clubs. She’s co-president of Peer Counseling. Peer counselors help younger students adapt to the school socially and academically.
“We try to go to the advisories (home room) every Friday,” she says.
The junior class peer counselors talk to the sixth-grade students, and the seniors talk to the eighth graders.
If the younger students need help, they can seek out the peer counselors and ask to talk.
She’s also the president of the Second Chances Animal Rescue Club.
“We work with PAWS4You,” she says. “We organize fundraisers and bake sales where all the money goes to them. We try to do supply drives. At the International Festival we sell dog toys and dog treats and PAWS4You will bring dogs that need to be rescued. I have such a soft spot for animals, so I was ecstatic to be president of this club.”
This is her second year as president.
Miles is also president of Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. In addition to education students about gun control laws, club members also raise money to increase awareness of gun violence issues. They also lobby for changes to lax gun laws.
Her school involvement includes student council. She’s been a Sophomore and Senior Class Secretary. Her junior year she was club coordinator.
She also served in the now defunct Mosaic Club and led classes on diversity.
Currently she is a chairperson in the Model United Nations Club. She goes to all the local conferences.
Her college list includes the University of Florida, the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Texas at Austin. Miles wants to double major in Communications and one of the sciences.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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