It’s way too soon to set your DVRs, but you might want to make a note that when the 2020 Summer Games roll around, one of the sprinters going for the gold could very well be one of the Owl Club’s 2015 debutantes.
Shayna Yon, one of 14 young women presented May 30 when the club had its 64th Debutante Cotillion at the Sheraton Denver Downtown, is a graduate of Cherokee Trail High School, where she shattered four school records and won state titles in the 100- and 200-meter dash and the 400-meter relay.
In a month or so, she’ll be off to Louisiana State University on a full-ride track and field scholarship to study kinesiology and physical therapy while working to earn a spot on the U.S. track and field team for the Tokyo games.
Others presented at the event chaired by Reginald Norman and Gregory Anderson and narrated by Karen Norman were Amanda Andrews, Ruvencia Boyd, Kiana Campbell, Aaliyah Carter, Imani Conley-Frazier, Jaelen Hysaw, Rochelle Hubbart, Alexandra Matthews, Carmel McGee, Franchesca Neal, Zaria Noble, Samaria Stovall and Elise Tucker.
Carter, whose mother, the Rev. Tina Carter, delivered the invocation, also is a star athlete.
She was captain of the varsity girls basketball team at Vista Peak Preparatory High School in Aurora, where she also was a prize-winning sprinter. In 2013, she helped represent the United States at the Down Under Sports international track meet in Australia.
Stovall, who was editor in chief of Cherry Creek High’s student newspaper and toured Europe with the school’s Grammy-winning Girls 21 choir, will be a nursing student at Creighton University. Her goal is to become a mental health nurse practitioner.
Tucker, a graduate of Denver School of the Arts, sang with the Colorado Childen’s Chorale for six years and has been a Donna Baldwin model for two years.
She has studied dance for 16 years and opted to attend Metropolitan State University because her dance teacher, who specializes in the Alvin Ailey methods, is in Denver. Tucker’s dream is to join the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314, jdavidson@denverpost.com or
Heart of Hospice
Bev Sloan, who has retired after 15 years as president/CEO of The Denver Hospice, receives the Heart of Hospice Award at a dinner ceremony. Joanne Davidson has details in the Mile High Style blog:
