The designation is awarded to those students who exemplify character and leadership through community service and academic achievement.
Hooper is a member of Mars Area High School’s Enrichment Club, Future Medical Providers Club, Key Club, National Honor Society, Spanish Club and Spanish National Honor Society; and, she has achieved Honor Roll High Honors in each of her freshman, sophomore and junior years. She is also a three-member and two-year letterman on the Varsity Cheerleading Squad Girls Varsity Swimming & Diving Team.
She received the Challenge Program award for Academic Excellence and The American Legion Award. In the community, she serves as a coaching assistant for the Mars Area High School Swimming & Diving Team; is a junior swim coach at Rose E. Schneider Family YMCA; and, a candy-striper at Butler Memorial Hospital.
Hooper is also working with Mars Area High School to establish a free mathematics tutoring program for high school students. The program would also provide advanced students with volunteer opportunities.
She plans to pursue a career in medicine with the goal of becoming an orthopedic or trauma surgeon. Hooper also hopes to continue swimming at the club or intramural level in college; and, to volunteer in the community with programs involving swimming, health care, and academics.
All 2021 Outstanding Young Citizens were honored in a Special Section of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Westmoreland and Valley News Dispatch editions, published on May 20. For more information, visit