Student of the Week Mechanicsburg High School

Taylor Hurst is the Student of the Week from Mechanicsburg High School.

Taylor Hurst is the Student of the Week from Mechanicsburg High School.

Name: Taylor Hurst

School: Mechanicsburg High School

Grade: 12th

Age: 17

Extra-curricular: Softball

Claim to fame/honors: 2019 DIV State Runner-Up

Words you live by: Carpe Diem

Toughest challenge: Pushing through the adversity

Biggest influence: Parents and brother

School-day rituals: Lots and lots of caffeine before and after school

What’s on your bedroom walls: Softball medals, pictures

When I’m bored I like to … read, watch movies

Favorite movie: A Few Good Men

Person who would play you in a movie: Millie Bobby Brown

Favorite TV show: Friends

Favorite musical artist: Ed Sheeran

Favorite book: Queen of Air and Darkness

Favorite home-cooked meal: Homemade chili

Favorite restaurant: Tres Portillos

Whose mind would you like to read: My mother’s

Place where you’d love to travel: Hawaii

Talent you’d like to have: Dancing

Favorite school subject: History

Favorite athlete: Christian Yelich

Favorite team: Milwaukee Brewers

Something in the world I’d like to change: Coronavirus

Favorite high school moment: Earning our school’s first state berth in softball my sophomore year

Favorite junk food: Chips

Best thing about high school: Seeing your friends and others you are close to every day

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