Congratulations to Margaux Boyer, Jarrow Alum and The Courier’s Student Athlete of the Week!
On the soccer pitch, in the classroom, and around the community, Margaux Boyer has accomplished plenty throughout her four years at Niwot High School.
A senior captain on the NHS girls soccer team, Boyer is enjoying arguably her best season yet for the 7-3-2 Cougars. The fourth-year varsity defender has contributed a career-high 12 points, including three goals, this spring, with three regular season games still remaining.
Read the full article HERE.
Way to go Margaux!!
Congratulations to Alexandra Eschmeyer, Jarrow Alum and The Daily Camera’s Player of the Year!
Alexandra (and her brother Elijah) both attended Jarrow through Upper Elementary. Her teachers, Danielle Bahl and Matt Diss, reflected on her strong work ethic in their final report, saying
“Everyone in the Jarrow community has appreciated Alexandra’s kindness, enthusiasm for learning, sensitive spirit, compassionate heart and thoughtful demeanor. We look forward to hearing about her successes in the future and will miss her greatly!”
Not only has she gone on to find huge success as Player of the Year, but was also awarded the 4A/3A Metro League player of the year for a second straight season. She was picked for CHSAA’s all-state first team for the first time.
She has committed to joining the women’s basketball powerhouse, Stanford, in January.
Eschmeyer, standing 6-foot-5, has a game as big as her 6-foot-11 father, Evan Eschmeyer, the former NBA player who now coaches the boys’ team at Peak to Peak. She’ll just never say it herself.
Her stats speak for themselves: Eschmeyer averaged 23.5 points per game, 13.1 rebounds and 4.8 blocks this winter while playing in the 4A classification.
Before making her new home in Palo Alto, Calif., though, Eschmeyer could make a run at joining the very rare, 2,000-point, 1,000-rebound club next season when she’s a senior at Peak to Peak.
We’re so proud of you! Keep up the good work!
Portrait of a Graduate: Finn O’Sullivan
Finn O’Sullivan performing at the Boulder International Film Festival Drive-In, 2020
In 2016, Finn won the eTown Handmade Songs Competition and she has been recording on her own and with producers ever since. She released her first LP, When the Power Comes Back On, in 2020. The title song won the grand prize in the folk category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She is currently pursuing a singer-songwriter/music business double major at The University of Colorado Denver.
Finn attended Jarrow from Kinder through 6th grade. She met her best friends here, and, as she put it, was a ‘very shy kid. “In Upper Elementary, I really found my voice and my confidence. The support I received from my teachers and classmates really helped to foster my creativity and coming into myself. I remember our 6th grade musical, The Wizard of Oz. We had the opportunity to do everything, act, make the set, and do the choreography on our own. I volunteered to play Dorothy. It was my first theatrical performance.”
She picked up her first guitar at age 12 and hasn’t put it down since. In addition to guitar, Finn plays ukulele and piano, and her sound and style and voice have been compared to such artists as Regina Spektor, dodie, and Phoebe Bridgers. She says that songwriting is a way for her to express herself and talk about things that are important to her, which is sometimes hard for her to do in everyday conversation. She is “committed to creating things that other people can relate to,” and her songs are a testament to this commitment. Keep up the great work Finn!!!
Hear Finn on Spotify and learn more about her at finnosullivanmusic.com.
Watch an interview and short performance by Finn here.
Portrait of a Graduate: JP Gritton
JP Gritton attended Jarrow Montessori from the time he was 2 until graduation in 6th grade. His new book WYOMING is receiving lots of acclaim and he is currently touring the country when he has time away from teaching creative writing at Duke University.
When you ask how his Montessori education at Jarrow impacted him, he has a lot to say….
“At Jarrow, if you had a passion, you were allowed to pursue it, and not just allowed, but encouraged. From a very young age, I loved to write. Ellen Drury, my teacher, was one of the best teachers I have ever had and she really encouraged me. In 6th grade, we read Crime and Punishment, and it wasn’t until one of my dissertation committee members said that my novel reminded him of Crime and Punishment that I realized how much it had infused how I write. Jarrow laid this very powerful groundwork for me.”
Gritton is the recipient of Cynthia Woods Mitchell fellowship, a DisQuiet fellowship and the Inprint Donald Barthelme prize in fiction. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Greensboro Review, New Ohio Review, Southwest Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. His translations of the work of Brazilian writer Cidinha da Silva have appeared in InTranslation. Keep up the good work JP!!!
Read more about JP Gritton at jpgritton.com.
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Please email Shannon at shannon.marth@jarrow.org to let us know what you’ve been up to!