When Logan Alexandra White was "little" she thought of becoming a lawyer because of her initials: L.A.W.
The 17-year-old Grade 12 student has other goals these days.
Currently, she's concentrating on finishing her athletic career at Pauline Johnson Collegiate.
White captured the senior girls javelin, long jump and shot put events and placed second in the 100 metres Wednesday at the Brant County high school track and field championships at Assumption College.
On Monday, she'll play for the PJC Thunderbirds in a Brant County high school girls soccer semifinal game and, possibly, a championship game Tuesday.
White will compete in three events (javelin, long jump and shot put) at the Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association's track and field championships at Resurrection Catholic Secondary School in Kitchener next Wednesday and Th ursday.
Just in case this honor-roll student isn't busy enough, she's also trying out for the junior and senior national softball teams.
Oh, by the way, the five-foot-five, 135-pounder is off to Wayne State University in Detroit in September on an athletic scholarship where she'll major in multi-media and communications.
On Wednesday, Assumption captured its fourth consecutive overall team championship by earning 790 points.
North Park Collegiate placed second with 438 points followed by Brantford Collegiate Institute, 345; Pauline Johnson Collegiate, 327; St. John's College, 258; PDHS, 143; W. Ross Macdonald School, 26, and Tollgate Tech, 20.
Winning times, distances and heights weren't impressive Wednesday because of weather conditions.
White won the javelin with a toss of 31.70 metres, the long jump with a leap of 4.67 metres and the shot put with a heave of 9.09 metres.
Saleena Wedderburn of Assumption defeated her in the 100 metres with a time of 13.68 seconds.
"I just want to beat my personal-bests," White said looking ahead to CWOSSA.
"I'd like to throw 37 metres in the javelin and reach around five metres in the long jump."
White lists softball as her No. 1 sport followed by volleyball and basketball.
"Then it's kind of a tie between soccer and track and field," she said. "Badminton is probably last. It's not that I don't like it but it's probably where I do the worst."
White also plays the guitar, sings and writes songs "if I'm in the mood for it and I have the time."
Meantime, Derek Quick of Paris District High School won two events in impressive fashion in the senior boys division.
Quick, is a triathlete, not a track and field star. But he captured the 1,500 metres in four minutes and 27 seconds and the 3,000 metres in 9:50.84.
Quick, who is headed to the University of Guelph in September, hasn't set any unrealistic goals as far as track and field is concerned.
"Really," he said. "I just wanted to make it to CWOSSA.
"At CWOSSA, I'll probably just lay it out there and see what I can do."
Triathletes train for running but they also train for swimming and cycling. One reasons Quick is going to the University of Guelph is because he wants to pursue his training for triathlons.
"They have a regional training centre for triathlon at the University of Guelph," he noted.
Quick competes in the junior elite division and will do so until he steps into the Elite Level when he celebrates his 20th birthday.
"It's the sprint distance, half of what they do at the Olympics."
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