Laguna Beach High School Senior Excels on Land and in Water

High school senior Jessie Rose plans to play water polo for the University of California–Berkeley beginning in the fall of 2021. Courtesy of Jessie Rose

Eighteen-year-old Jessie Rose, a senior at Laguna Beach High School in Southern California, felt inspired to write a poem.

“When my world seems to be collapsing, I know you are always there for me. You make me work for your love, but the suffering is worth it,” she wrote.