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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Enrique Dolores
By JoEllen Collins for The Weekly Sun
Bellevue resident Enrique Dolores, a senior at Wood River High School, has a 3.907 grade point average and has achieved academic honors in all his high school terms.
Dolores is a member of National Honor Society and in 2016 he chaired the NHS handbook committee, recruiting a team of students to develop the chapter’s first handbook.
Dolores also belongs to the Key Club, the Business Professionals of America, and plays saxophone in the school band. He completed five AP courses and is working on three more. He was awarded the math department’s “Risk Taker” award in 2016, and is doing an engineering internship with POWER Engineers.
Dolores was a guest speaker at Wood River High School’s college night for Hispanic students and parents.
“My topic was ‘My Path to College,’” Dolores said. “I was trying to inspire younger students to reach high.”
Dolores has three younger siblings—a sister and two brothers.
Recently, he received a four-year college scholarship called the Golden Door Scholarship, awarded to high-performing Hispanic students.
“It was a national competition, so I was especially thrilled to be chosen,” he said.
Dolores has applied to 12 colleges.
“I plan to attend a well-regarded college or university, which offers majors in either accounting, economics, international business or Spanish,” he said. “I would hope that my ideal school would also afford a spot playing lacrosse.”
Lacrosse is Dolores’s passion. He has played since his freshman year and attended four lacrosse camps in 2015 and 2016: at College of Idaho, University of Idaho Nike Camp and, in 2017, the Boise Rhino Lacrosse Camp, where he received the “Most Improved, Best Attitude” award. He was the top underclassman goal/point player of the season.
“One of the pleasures of participating in lacrosse was that I was able to donate money to the scholarship fund for a second and a third Hispanic player to join the team,” Dolores said.
The leadership skills honed in the classroom and in lacrosse have been intensified by Dolores’s experience in community work.
“Being on the board of directors of Trout Unlimited has been so enjoyable,” he said. “Not only have I been able to be a leader at youth education events, but also was chosen in a nationwide competition for my volunteer commitment to Trout Unlimited when I attended its 2016 National Youth Leadership Conference in Georgetown, Montana.”
Dolores was also co-coordinator for the local Toys for Tots campaign.
“I gathered donations from fellow students and worked with the social worker at Alturas Elementary School in order to help low-income Hispanic students receive over 40 Christmas gifts,” he said.
Helping younger students is a major goal in most of Dolores’s community efforts. He founded an after-school tutoring program at Wood River Middle School for participants of I Have A Dream Idaho, supporting first-generation college aspirants.
“I liked getting my friends and classmates to help,” he said.
Dolores is not only an outstanding community member and student, he also owns his own company, Dolores Yard Maintenance and Snow Removal, established in 2012.
In 2014, the Hailey Chamber of Commerce honored Dolores with its Do the Right Thing Award.
Each week, JoEllen Collins will be profiling a local high-school student. If you know someone you'd like to see featured, e-mail joellencollins1@gmail.com.