I am most passionate about tennis and soccer and bowling because I used to play them. I got recruited in tennis and bowling for the division 3 level and which is the highest rank and which would be a higher varsity level. I am really excited to play in college because that has been my goal along with being a physical education teacher working out and teaching middle school or high school while currently being in the jobs program at best buddies and glad that I am still able to continue best buddies as well. I like those things because it makes me happy and I love to play sports around the community and I am passionate about doubles in tennis but I can do both in tennis I technically am good at tennis and I have played tennis for 3 years of and planning to play tennis at Elmhurst University for my junior year and senior year of college. I currently attend Illinois central college and working on my associates in physical education and coaching while hoping to play volleyball basketball and softball and I have also found new clubs to join as well at Illinois Central College. My current goals is to play softball and basketball and volleyball at ICC as well. Currently I am the softball manager I do a lot of volunteering around the community and have been in clubs I have been in a organization for the past 7 years called best buddies where I am a leader for the best buddies community along with fundraising for best buddies. Over the past 7 years I have fundraised over $60,000 to help people with intellectual disabilities have leadership development have jobs and have the one to one friendships. I have a disability too called autism. In the future I want to coach a special Olympics team because I am a special Olympic athlete as well as fundraise for them as I do the polar plunge for special Olympics athletes like me to be able to support the special Olympics athletes and to have more inclusive to the community as well. After I graduate from college my plan is to teach physical education and hopefully to teach regular Physical Education and a unified Physical education class. I want to be to teach people with disabilities along with people with disabilities to play sports on a team. I want to be able to coach multiple sports where I can be inclusive where I can have people with or without disabilities be on a sports team.

Hi my name is brooklin Heeren and I have been involved in a lot of clubs where I volunteer around the community a lot and I want to be able to make the environment and the community a better environment to live in. I am most passionate about tennis and soccer and bowling because I used to play them. I got recruited in tennis and bowling for the division 3 level and which is the highest rank and which would be a higher varsity level. I am really excited to play in college because that has been my goal along with being a physical education teacher working out and teaching middle school or high school while currently being in the jobs program at best buddies and glad that I am still able to continue best buddies as well. I like those things because it makes me happy and I love to play sports around the community and I am passionate about doubles in tennis but I can do both in tennis I technically am good at tennis and I have played tennis for 3 years of and planning to play tennis at Elmhurst University for my junior year and senior year of college. I currently attend Illinois central college and working on my associates in physical education and coaching while hoping to play volleyball basketball and softball and I have also found new clubs to join as well at Illinois Central College. My current goals is to play softball and basketball and volleyball at ICC as well. Currently I am the softball manager I do a lot of volunteering around the community and have been in clubs where I volunteer a lot throughout my high school/ college career. I am kind to people around the community as well. I want to be able to inspire other people as well how good it is to volunteer around the community. I am really wanting to make the environment and the community a better environment for the earth. I currently a lot of volunteering through best buddies and special Olympics by fundraising and doing the polar plunge every year. This past weekend I just recently volunteer for the Festival of Lights east Peoria il and we walked to make sure kids weren’t coming close to the floats. Once a month I also help people who don’t have books to local 1st graders who don’t have any books. So far I have fundraised over $60,000 for best buddies

Hi My Name Is Brooklin Heeren and I am 18 years old with a disability called autism Since I was in Junior High I loved to be athletic. I am most passionate about tennis and soccer and bowling because I used to play them. I got recruited in tennis and bowling for the division 3 level and which is the highest rank and which would be a higher varsity level. I am really excited to play in college because that has been my goal along with being a physical education teacher working out and teaching middle school or high school while currently being in the jobs program at best buddies and glad that I am still able to continue best buddies as well. I like those things because it makes me happy and I love to run and I am passionate about doubles in tennis but I can do both in tennis I technically am good at tennis and I have played tennis for 3 years of and planning to play tennis at Elmhurst University for my junior year and senior year of college. I currently attend Illinois central college and working on my associates in physical education and coaching while hoping to play volleyball basketball and softball and I have also found new clubs to join as well at Illinois Central College. I am the oldest of one sibling and I have two parents as well. My current goals is to play softball and basketball and volleyball at ICC as well. Currently I am the softball and basketball manager too. I have been the most athletic throughout my school and since I was in junior high well such as Cross Country and track. I graduated from high school in May of 2024 from East Peoria Community High School as a senior. My Senior year of high school I did girls soccer, disc golfing , and tennis. My freshman year I was the volleyball manager and did soccer also being in tennis also was the basketball manager and did girls soccer as well. My future plans is to be a physical education teacher and hoping to become a fitness instructor while coaching different sports. I have so many experiences in teaching and coaching where I used to coach little league soccer for the younger kids as well. I currently do a lot of sports in the Special Olympics as well such as volleyball. I am hoping to play softball basketball and bowling as well.

My drive to becoming a teacher is that I have worked with kids before and I like to help them. I have taught the kids at church before too I have been a counselor to k through 2 and 1st grade but my plans are to teach a middle school or high school physical education teacher. I am very active in sports and I have taught fitness classes for a gym. I have taught fitness classes that had kids in it too. I have the passion to being a teacher I love to teach Physical education. My ambition is to help the middle school kids get better but to help them with their homework. When it comes to teaching I have the drive to teach in Chicago il or somewhere near Chicago il. I am very happy to teach junior high but I do tend to be strict because of their bad behavior. I am going to also going to coach sports as well alongside being a fitness teacher. Someday I am going to start a best buddies chapter there too at the same school I teach at. Not only I want my teaching to be successful but I want my future teaching to become successful too because if it isn’t successful then I might get fired from teaching and I really don’t want that. I am going to be teaching the kids different units and they will do some lifting and want to get them active and not sit around too. I really want to make sure they will be successful at physical education. I want to make them become an athlete and teach them different sports that they don’t know how to play like tennis. My goal is to have them take a test one time per unit so for most units but some units depend on how long we go with that unit. They will be changing into physical education clothes. I will be the best that I can be at teaching the kids and make sure that they can be the best students ever when I teach at school or at a gym too. I will help the kids and read it and I will be the teacher to help them clarify if they don’t know that word and I will teach them that word if they don’t understand that word. It really makes me happy when I teach the kid and I do have passion, ambition and drive the teaching to a middle school that need physical education teachers. I have the inspiration of being a teacher just because of how I am nice to kids and children and I love and have taught a history class and made them do notes and was very strict. I have the inspiration of teaching physical education and to teach kids for sports and different clubs. I am very passionate toward other people and very passionate when it comes to making people to do theirs and if they don’t I will fail them and give them an f. When it comes to teaching I am very experienced and I have background when it comes to being a physical education teacher and any type of teaching and I have also played sports too in high school and junior and I want to be able to leave an example for my future students as well and be able to help them out and I will be nice to them and help them out the best I can and I want to take the step of being a great teacher.

I have learned to swing through my swings and get ready for the next match and this has shaped my future because I got recruited for a tennis team in college division 3 which is the highest varsity team. I did get better and improve all my three years in tennis by winning and getting better at doubles and had some close matches. There was a couple of matches and tournaments where I had tie breakers too. I basically practiced and practice and improved throughout the season. I had 4th place in some tournaments and even though our season was weird and didn’t have any home matches I still improved even though we had no home matches and all away matches and tournaments I still did good and was almost close to medaling for third. I have a pretty close sectional match with Peoria and that was a close tie breaker match. I have pretty good backhand but forehand is a huge struggle. I kept on somewhat getting better at my forehand. In doubles I am pretty good at the backhand side and pretty good at the net too. I have had a couple of good rallies and good at hitting it back and forth between me and the other opponent rather it was doubles or singles. Since my sophomore I knew I would like tennis and have the passion for it since my sophomore year. This year was meaningful to me because I was a senior and it was my last year I wanted to play throughout my senior year. I had played two years of varsity and one year of junior varsity. It started out really rough then got better when the season went on it went really good. I use some strategies to help me with my matches. For singles my strategy was to get ready and get on my toes instead of just standing there and hitting the ball late. For doubles my strategy was to communicate with my doubles partner and help them out a little bit. I have witnessed some competition in me just to try my best at matches and improve and just to learn what my skills were and what my job was to work on throughout the season. Some of the matches I fought off some pain in me and my feet were in pain too but any pain and even though my other opponent that were mean I still wanted to show my teammates that I can do it even though I had some bad matches.

My drive to becoming a teacher is that I have worked with kids before and I like to help them. I have taught the kids at church before too I have been a counselor to k through 2 and 1st grade but my plans are to teach a middle school or high school physical education teacher. I am very active in sports and I have taught fitness classes for a gym. I have taught fitness classes that had kids in it too. I have the passion to being a teacher I love to teach Physical education. My ambition is to help the middle school kids get better but to help them with their homework. When it comes to teaching I have the drive to teach in Chicago il or somewhere near Chicago il. I am very happy to teach junior high but I do tend to be strict because of their bad behavior. I am going to also going to coach sports as well alongside being a fitness teacher. Someday I am going to start a best buddies chapter there too at the same school I teach at. Not only I want my teaching to be successful but I want my future teaching to become successful too because if it isn’t successful then I might get fired from teaching and I really don’t want that. I am going to be teaching the kids different units and they will do some lifting and want to get them active and not sit around too. I really want to make sure they will be successful at physical education. I want to make them become an athlete and teach them different sports that they don’t know how to play like tennis. My goal is to have them take a test one time per unit so for most units but some units depend on how long we go with that unit. They will be changing into physical education clothes. I will be the best that I can be at teaching the kids and make sure that they can be the best students ever when I teach at school or at a gym too. I will help the kids and read it and I will be the teacher to help them clarify if they don’t know that word and I will teach them that word if they don’t understand that word. It really makes me happy when I teach the kid and I do have passion, ambition and drive the teaching to a middle school that need physical education teachers.