My name is Rachel Stahl. I'm from Poland, Ohio. My major is mathematics and I'm a junior here at Coastal.
It's very small. Population's about 2,500 so everyone really knows everyone and
growing up a lot of my teachers would be like, "Oh, hey. I had your mother"
and I'm just like, "Oh, that's cool."
A common misconception would be you don't use it after school. Which is very false. You do.
Whether it's with your taxes or giving a tip to a waitress,
you use it actually in your everyday life to maybe set an alarm clock, to know when to wake up.
My favorite moment would be the first time walking on the teal turf.
I was going down for halftime and it was just seeing the teal and just the crowd was amazing.
It's helped me open up a little bit more. I've learned to branch out and meet new
people and you know make a lot of friends.
I actually watched a high school band perform in seventh grade and I loved the twirlers
I loved what they were doing and I just I thought that was really cool.
So I tried it out at the end of seventh grade during the summer and
my coach said I had a natural talent for it so I just kind of kept going from there
and perfecting as I went.
My favorite all-time country song is "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts
and that's because my mother dedicated it to me.
We were actually driving in the car I think on the way to the store and she said
"Every time you hear the song I want you to think of me and I want you to
think of everything I hope you accomplish and everything I want you to have when you're growing up."
In fifth grade at the end I auditioned to play oboe in sixth grade
and I made it and then I kind of stopped senior year just because
a lot of other things took place and then I picked it back up in college
because we were talking about it one day in band and you know he needed an oboe player
So I'm like, "Okay, cool. I'll play." And that just kind of brought back my love for it.
Determined because I really hope to make a difference and I really want to like
get through college, hopefully become a teacher and make a real difference to
you know child's education.
My mother, of course, cause she helped me get to where I am and the rest of my family.
My grandparents, they really support me, especially here at Coastal and then my band director, Mr. Griffin.
He has been wonderful this year with helping me through being captain and being the
first chair oboeist for the first time so that definitely helped.