Bio

Personal: 2012 SSC Commissioner’s Honor Roll with perfect 4.0 GPA...Received Certificate of Academic Excellence all four years of high school… Recipient of the Presidential Outstanding Academic Achievement Award… A member of the National Honor Society, National Honor Roll, and the United States Achievement Academy… Admitted to the UT Society of Leadership and Success… Recipient of the UT Presidential Scholarship…Volunteered at an assistant teacher at a school in Peru…Volunteered as a class assistant teacher for a fourth grade Sunday School class…Participant in Monticello High School Thanksgiving Food & Holiday Toy Drive… A member of the Teens Against Cancer Club… Volunteered in the recovery center for the American Red Cross…Volunteered at United Way… Volunteered at a children’s physical therapy clinic in 2009… A member of the University PEACE organization… Daughter of Tarcizo and Geralda Palhano…Has two older siblings, Melissa and Michael… Exercise science/sport studies and public health major… Birthdate: 4/18/1990.