{"id":40320,"date":"2023-05-16T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=40320"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:36:35","slug":"paulding-high-school-class-of-2023-announces-top-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/paulding-high-school-class-of-2023-announces-top-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulding High School Class of 2023 Announces Top Scholars!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Haley Manz<\/strong> has been named as valedictorian of the 2023 graduating class of Paulding High School. Her parents are Scott and Sara Manz. She earned a GPA of 4.2 during her high school career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After high school she plans to attend Defiance College to obtain a bachelor\u2019s degree in Graphic Design and a minor in Fine Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manz\u2019s extracurriculars include choir, soccer, track, and Apostolic Christian Youth Group. She earned the following awards and recognitions in high school: McMaster Symposium and Academic Colloquium Award; and Defiance College Dean\u2019s Scholarship <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of school Haley enjoys painting, drawing, traveling, and reading. When asked about her most memorable high school experience, she stated, \u201cParticipating in track and hanging out with my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hayden Mullen<\/strong> has been named as salutatorian of the 2023 graduating class of Paulding High School. His parents are Chad and Heather Mullen . He earned a GPA of 4.190 during his high school career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After high school Mullen plans to attend The Ohio State University majoring in neuroscience. \u201cI plan to do this because I intend to someday help improve the lives of others and better their states of mind as a neurologist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayden\u2019s extracurricular activities include 2019-2020: Paulding Football Team Manager; filming all season games, carrying equipment on and off buses, totaled 60+ hours between 2 years. 2019-2022: Nature Center Community Service: Collected trash<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and recognitions that Mullen earned include: Salutatorian, honor roll 2019-2023, Franklin B. Walter Scholarship, Paulding Putnam Electric Company Scholarship, OSU land grant scholarship, and honors diploma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of school Mullen enjoys exercising\/lifting and playing video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting about the past, Hayden had this to say about his most memorable  high school experience, \u201cWhen COVID-19 first came around, me and my friends were put in quarantine and were able to play video games together more often than before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haley Manz has been named as valedictorian of the 2023 graduating class of Paulding High School. Her parents are Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[2278,18584,18585,18583,3346],"class_list":["post-40320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-school","tag-defiance-college","tag-haley-manz","tag-hayden-mullen","tag-paulding-exempted-village-school","tag-paulding-high-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PHS-Hayden-Mullen-Pic.jpg?fit=318%2C397&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-auk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 13:24:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40323,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions\/40323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}