What inspires you?

Julia Kirschenmann

“I’m really close with my siblings, so I think they motivate me, especially my brother. My parents expect a lot from me and so I have to try and live up to that because I don’t want to let them down. I think that’ll go for the rest of my life.”

Nikolai Tang

“Youth rap groups that put out really good music. They just grind all the time, they never stop. There are no off-seasons, they just go hard all year long.”

Puck Gatto

“I inspire me. I’m the reason that I do everything I do anything. I do it because I find it enjoyable to do or funny in some way. I buy a lot of things that are dumb. People say, “that’s dumb.” But I buy them because I find them funny.”

Christopher Vanlent

“I am inspired by my parents because they like worked hard and I can see where they ended up and it makes me want to work hard and end up like them.”

Alex Mercier

“My diving coach really inspires me. She went to college at U of M and that’s where I want to go for college. She dove through high school and I really look up to her because she focused a lot on staying mentally stable and diving because she wants to. A lot of people that I know that dive, they dive because they’ve been diving their whole lives, and that’s all they’ve done or their parents make them and they don’t like it at all but she does because she likes to. I feel like that really inspires me to stay positive and focus on my mental happiness.”