Bober loves competing on and off the field
Megan Bober wasn’t ready to give up competing in track.
“I love each sport enough that I couldn’t do without it just yet,” said the three-sport star from Elmwood-Murdock, who this fall will head to Creighton on a volleyball scholarship.
“Fortunately, being from a small town, it’s easy to do that,” Bober added. “Each season, it seems like I’m fired up about finishing one thing and starting something new.”
Whether it’s juggling a busy athletic schedule or mastering her schoolwork, Bober, it seems, will never be content to take the easy way out.
John Hill, her volleyball coach and calculus teacher, can point to numerous examples where Bober’s commitment has shown through.
Fans of the Knights know all about her work on the playing field, but not everything comes that easy for the repeat all-state selection.
Take math, for example.
“But that’s OK because she’s always looking for a challenge,” said Hill. “Some kids just try and get through, but with Megan, she’ll say things like, ‘I don’t want to just hand it in. I want to understand it.’
“When you see a student who does that, it transcends what the grade actually means.”
Bober’s grades are pretty good. She ranks sixth among the many 4.0 students in an impressive senior class at Elmwood-Murdock.
Her favorite classes revolve around business, and predictably, Bober has been an active member of her school’s FBLA chapter for four years.
She’s part of an Elmwood-Murdock team that qualified for a national competition by arguing the benefits of government-regulated health care at a recent business contest.
In addition to calculus, her final semester of high school includes classes in business law, anatomy, advanced accounting and career prep literature.
“Being a three-sport athlete, I think, carries over to the academic area,” Hill said. “We talk a lot in education about teaching across the curriculum, and she’s a great example of that.
“The fact that she likes all these different things and gives all of them an honest effort is good for people to see.”
Bober was at a track meet Tuesday, one day after returning from a club volleyball tournament in Minnesota.
She competes in the triple jump and long jump in track and sometimes runs the 400 meters.
In basketball, she averaged 15 points and eight rebounds a game as the Knights made it to the Class C-2 state tournament.
The fact that the 6-foot, left-handed Bober chose to play volleyball in college — her older sister, Nikki, plays basketball at Nebraska — came as a surprise to some. But not necessary to Megan, who amongst her many loves, found one to be her true passion.
“Probably the end of my sophomore year, I started to see what I liked and what I really had a passion for,” she said. “I can’t wait to get started.”
“I love each sport enough that I couldn’t do without it just yet,” said the three-sport star from Elmwood-Murdock, who this fall will head to Creighton on a volleyball scholarship.
“Fortunately, being from a small town, it’s easy to do that,” Bober added. “Each season, it seems like I’m fired up about finishing one thing and starting something new.”
Whether it’s juggling a busy athletic schedule or mastering her schoolwork, Bober, it seems, will never be content to take the easy way out.
John Hill, her volleyball coach and calculus teacher, can point to numerous examples where Bober’s commitment has shown through.
Fans of the Knights know all about her work on the playing field, but not everything comes that easy for the repeat all-state selection.
Take math, for example.
“But that’s OK because she’s always looking for a challenge,” said Hill. “Some kids just try and get through, but with Megan, she’ll say things like, ‘I don’t want to just hand it in. I want to understand it.’
“When you see a student who does that, it transcends what the grade actually means.”
Bober’s grades are pretty good. She ranks sixth among the many 4.0 students in an impressive senior class at Elmwood-Murdock.
Her favorite classes revolve around business, and predictably, Bober has been an active member of her school’s FBLA chapter for four years.
She’s part of an Elmwood-Murdock team that qualified for a national competition by arguing the benefits of government-regulated health care at a recent business contest.
In addition to calculus, her final semester of high school includes classes in business law, anatomy, advanced accounting and career prep literature.
“Being a three-sport athlete, I think, carries over to the academic area,” Hill said. “We talk a lot in education about teaching across the curriculum, and she’s a great example of that.
“The fact that she likes all these different things and gives all of them an honest effort is good for people to see.”
Bober was at a track meet Tuesday, one day after returning from a club volleyball tournament in Minnesota.
She competes in the triple jump and long jump in track and sometimes runs the 400 meters.
In basketball, she averaged 15 points and eight rebounds a game as the Knights made it to the Class C-2 state tournament.
The fact that the 6-foot, left-handed Bober chose to play volleyball in college — her older sister, Nikki, plays basketball at Nebraska — came as a surprise to some. But not necessary to Megan, who amongst her many loves, found one to be her true passion.
“Probably the end of my sophomore year, I started to see what I liked and what I really had a passion for,” she said. “I can’t wait to get started.”
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