SHS Senior, Tessa Greisen was selected and honored as the February 2025 Seward Rotary Club Youth Rotarian at the noon luncheon meeting of the Seward Rotary Club on Wednesday, February 5th at the Jones Bank Auditorium. She is the daughter of Jody and Chris Greisen.
Tessa is first and foremost a serious student at Seward High concerning her academic interests. She has earned a 4.18 weighted GPA and enjoyed a series of honor/AP classes for dual credit -including /Certified Nurse Assistant, Basic Medical Terminology, Intro to Nutrition, Public Speaking, AP US History, AP Calculus, AP Biology, Spanish and Writing and Research. She is a leader in the Seward High National Honor Society and was named a Carson Scholar Nominee. Her name has been on the SHS Honor every term since entering high school.
Her school leadership continues with the SHS Bluejay Leadership Team (Student Council) all four years of high school and she also serves as an SHS Ambassador- as part of the official “Welcome to Seward High” team and offers tours and a friendly face for visitors at SHS and offers tours for new students. She also enjoyed being an Outdoor Ed Counselor at the Seward Middle School.
She is very involved with sports and loves to run! She is a leader in the SHS Women’s Cross Country Team and a state medalist in 2023 and 2024 and the Varsity Girl’s Captain two years of high school. She is also a leader with the SHS Women’s Track program and a Varsity runner for all four years of high school as well. She was a State Track medalist for three years (so far) in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Tessa is a member of the HOPE Squad at SHS and a longtime devoted member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) program in Seward. She is a leader with the SHS Family Community Career Leaders of America (SHS FCCLA) leadership organization and recognized with the FCCLA STAR Program in Interior Design-placing First at State in 2022 and Second at State in 2023. She has served her Chapter as an FCCLA Vice President for two years of High School.
She has also been very involved with the SHS Skills USA Program and placed third at State in 2022 and 2023 in the Opening and Closing Ceremony (OCC) Team and won Second Place in Commercial Baking in 2022.
As part of her life learning experiences, Tessa has been employed outside of the home- and worked for Sloup-Thorell Detasseling, She is currently working summers for the City of Seward as a lifeguard at Dowding Memorial Pool in Seward and also gives private swimming lessons.
Her “Service Above Self” Volunteer activities center around her service avenues with her High School organizations including FCCLA and SKILLS USA-involving food drives, ticket sales and various programs and projects the groups choose of host, plus she has worked on a variety of Youth Sports camps and was the Run Club Leader for 2021-2024.
She is an active member of her Church -St. Vincent dePaul Catholic Church and serves in a variety of capacities for her church and their many activities and programs. She is a leader in their local Godparents program and loyal to their weekly meeting schedule.
She plans to attend the University of Nebraska Kearney to major in pre-nursing. Then she plans on attending UNMC on campus to obtain her bachelors in nursing and later anticipates returning to school to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) , with a Doctorate in Anesthesiology.
Tessa was acknowledged and thanked for a strong career of leadership at SHS and presented with a bag of information on Seward and Rotary and presented with a Book Scholarship for college. She is also, now a finalist for the Seward Youth Rotarian of the Year program.
The Youth Rotarian Program honors one Seward High Senior a Month at the Seward Rotary Club meetings. Applications are available at the SHS Counselor’s Office.
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