Dec. 2022 | Vol. 32 Iss. 12
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OLYMPIC SILVER MEDAL-WINNING SWIMMER RHYAN WHITE MAKES A TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO COTTONWOOD HIGH By Carl Fauver | c.fauver@mycityjournals.com
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rguably Cottonwood High School’s most acclaimed athlete ever, is not a CHS graduate. Oh, Rhyan White certainly earned her diploma; but it was from the public charter high school located inside Cottonwood. Students of the Academy for Math, Engineering & Science—or AMES High School—are allowed to compete for Cottonwood teams, since they are located in the same spacious Murray building. And that eligibility rule allowed the CHS girls swim team to produce Utah’s first-ever Olympic swimmer—and a silver medalist to boot. Earlier this fall, White made a triumphant return to her alma mater, where student-athletes of both Cottonwood and AMES treated her to a hero’s return, at a school assembly in their gymnasium. “It was super fun (returning to Cottonwood High School), because I don’t get a lot of opportunities to get back to Utah these days,” White said. “I was very excited. It was not what I was expecting. (The students) were super-attentive. It was really cool to talk with them. And they wanted lots of pictures.” It had actually not been that long since White visited Cottonwood High. Just two months earlier she was there to hand out awards at a summer swim meet. But this was White’s first time to be with a large group of students who compete on all the school’s teams—and a group that wanted to show her just how proud they are of her accomplishments. Cottonwood’s Rhyan White was the four-time Utah prep swimmer of the year, before her career took her to the University of Alabama and then Continued page 7 to the Olympics. (tide1009.com)
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