Tatum Crouch and Cali Hilgenfeld, both seniors at Chandler High School, have been named the August Lions of the Month by the Lions Club.
Tatum Crouch has a 4.0 GPA and is ranked first in her class. She has taken Advanced Math for four years and has an ACT score of 29.
Crouch is the National Honor Society Secretary and a member of the Oklahoma Honor Society. She’s made the Superintendent’s Honor Roll and won an Academic Excellence Award. Crouch was a member of the 2021 OSDTDA Academic State Champion team, 2022 OSDTDA Hip-hop and Jazz State Champion teams and 2023 OSDTDA Hip-hop and Jazz State Champion teams. She was also the Junior Football Homecoming Candidate last year, a member of the Youth Leadership Oklahoma Class of 2024, a Girls State Delegate, a page for the Oklahoma House of Representatives and a member of Gifted and Talented.
Crouch has been involved in many activities at Chandler High School. She was Junior Class President and Sophomore Class Vice-President. She’s also been a member of Youth Action for Health Leadership, the Cross Country Team, Track Team, Pom Team, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Positive Peers, Native American Student Association Council, First United Methodist Church, Business Professionals of America and International Thespian Society.
Some of the community service activities that Crouch has participated in include speaking at Veterans Day programs, leading worship at Chandler FUMC, and performing skits discouraging the use of alcohol, drugs, and bullying. She has also been a volunteer at Chandler recycling events, manager of Chandler Recycles’ Instagram, painted ceiling tiles for Jeremiah House, packed gifts for Operation Christmas Child, refurbished the memorial garden at the Lincoln County Museum of Pioneer History, and sold cookies with Girl Scout Troop 919 to donate funds to Safe Routes to School Sidewalk Project. Crouch has also placed flags on veterans’ graves for Memorial Day at Oak Park, Clearview and New Zion cemeteries, worked booths in local Halloween carnival, read books to elementary students, and packaged meals for Stamp Out Starvation.
Cali Hilgenfeld has a 4.0 GPA and is ranked first in her class.
Hilgenfeld is the Vice President of the National Honor Society and a member of the Oklahoma Honor Society.
She has been the Class Secretary for both her sophomore and junior years and an A honor roll student since 2021. She was a member of the 2021 OSDTDA Jazz State Runner-up team, 2021 OSDTDA Pom Academic State Champion team, 2022 OSDTDA Hip-hop and Jazz State Champion teams, 2023 Hip-hop and Jazz State Champion teams, and 2023 OSDTDA Hip-hop and Jazz State Champion teams. Through Pom, she has won Individual Academic Achievement awards in 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as the 2022 Dance Team Union Be Bold Award. In 2022, she was a state track medalist in the 4x200 relay (fifth) and 4x400 relay (second). In 2023, Crouch was a state track medalist in the 100m (fifth), 4x400 relay (third) and 4x800 relay (sixth). In 2024, she medaled at state in the 100m (third), 4x100 relay (fourth), 4x200 relay (fifth) and 4x400 relay (third).
The activities that Hilgenfeld has participated in are Positive Peers, Youth Action for Health Leadership, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Pom, Track, Basketball, Peer Mentors, Gifted and Talented, Girl Scouts and she is a member of First Baptist Church in Chandler.
Hilgenfeld has been involved in many community service activities throughout her high school career. She has volunteered at God and Peoples Food Pantry, Chandler Recycle, on the First Baptist Church Youth Camp Weir Mission Trip, veteran cardmaking, card-making for the nursing home and Vacation Bible School. She has also made blankets for a veterinary clinic, volunteered at a Professional Nursing Workshop for the Lincoln County Partnership for Child WellBeing, and been a Coordinated School Health Training volunteer.