The Lion’s Club has named Hayli Mauro and Tyson Rivas May Lions of the Month.
Haylie Mauro is the daughter of David and Traci Mauro and maintains a 4.0 grade point average while taking advanced classes in English for four years and math for one. She is also enrolled in her second year at Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee.
Consistently earning a spot on the Superintendent’s Honor Roll, she is a member of both the National Technical and the Oklahoma High School Honor Societies. She was selected to serve on the BancFirst Student Board of Directors. She earned an invitation to the CHS Academic Banquet all four years of high school and received Academic Excellence Awards for Spanish II, Algebra II, Honors English II, Government and Biology. She was named a Regional STEM Standout for excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Mauro has earned multiple awards while participating in CHS Archery including third place female in regional competition and helping the team to take first in High School Team Tier One in the West Oklahoma National Archery in the Schools Program State Shoot.
She also participated in Business Professionals of America.
She serves her community through ministry work and has been employed for the last two years at Oral Surgery Specialist of Oklahoma and Walmart.
Mauro plans to further her education at GCTC working toward a career in medical coding.
Tyson Rivas, the son of Bridget Hughey and Charlie Rivas, has taken advanced classes in English for three years and holds a 3.48 GPA. He was chosen as an Oklahoma Boys State delegate.
His leadership capabilities were evident while he served as vice president of Business Professionals of America and leader of the FISH Club, an organization of students holding each other accountable for their Christian responsibilities.
He also participated in Wrestling, Positive Peers and Postponing Sexual Involvement.
Rivas’s community service includes helping military veterans by delivering Christmas cards to the VA Hospital and working at the Veterans Day Assembly.
He helped raise funds for the Lincoln County Museum of Pioneer History through their annual haunted house and took part in Relay for Life. An active member of the Stroud First Baptist Church youth group, Rivas has taken two mission trips to Texas and worked in Vacation Bible School. He preaches to groups and teaches Sunday school.
He has been employed at Stroud Drug Store and Champion Carpet Cleaning.
His future plans are to major in ministry at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee with the goal of a career involving Youth Ministry.