Boys & Girls Clubs Youths of the Year: Lauren Bullington, 18

Bullington is a senior at Roosevelt High School. She was named Youth of the Year for the Ballard Boys & Girls Club, where she has been a member for 10 years, is president of the club's Keystone Club and has volunteered 65 hours in the last year.

She considers the club her "second home, where...all my worries go away" and she felt welcomed and loved. There, she said, she learned to value friendships and other relationships and that "the smallest things in life can greatly impact people."

At Roosevelt, she is a member of the soccer team and varsity cheer squad, is the yearbook staff photographer, a member of the Junior States Alliance and a recent Student of the Month.

Bullington hopes to attend Tufts University in Boston to study communications and international studies.[[In-content Ad]]