Instructing a fellow student to sit on a table in the athletic trainer's office, Grace Rinearson begins to wrap the bare ankle as if it's second nature. She rolls the stretchy tape around the arch of the foot.

"I joined (the Sports Medicine Club) and the more I helped out, I fell in love with it," she said.

Grace, a senior at Marquette Academy High School, has been serving as the president of the Sports Medicine Club  since her junior year. In fact, she has become so interested in the field that she has decided to study physical therapy when she attends college in the fall.

She recounted an especially exciting time in her recent sports medicine career during this past fall's first football game when several players needed assistance.

"That was pretty busy because one guy would go down and we would have to rub out their cramps or feed them Gatorade or pickle juice, and then another guy would go down so we would have to share the roller. It was just very chaotic," she said.

It's her drive and dedication that has stood out to Brandi Peters, Marquette's head athletic trainer and Sports Medicine Club adviser.

"I let Grace do a little more than a lot of the Sports Med Club members because she is more involved. She's with me almost every day, and she knows the routine," said Peters.

Those learned skills include basic first aid, injury evaluation, concussion training, leading rehabilitation and following a plan for strengthening exercises.

"She never hesitates to try something. You ask her to do anything and she'll try. She asks good questions, and if she doesn't understand something she'll ask and then she'll give it her best shot every time," Peters said. "She approaches everything with high energy and a good attitude. To me, that's what makes her stand out the most."

That standout behavior has carried over to Grace's service in the Catholic church as well. Although this is just the second year she has been a lead CCD teacher at St. Columba Church, she began assisting other teachers on Sunday mornings before she entered high school. Grace leads a class of 11 second-graders in their studies as they prepare to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion for the first time this spring.

"I really like kids. I just love teaching kids, and they have such high energy all the time," she said.

It's actually Grace's energy that continues to impress Mary Mann, director of religious education at St. Columba. Mann uses words such as conscientious, patient and knowledgeable to describe her.

"We gave her more and more responsibilities, honestly every year. And we gave her more and more stuff to do because she could handle it. She always did it willingly and always with a smile. Grace is just an amazing young gal," Mann said.

"I can't wait to see what Grace's future holds because I know she's going to do great things. I'm sorry, I get choked up a little bit because she's a mature girl for her age and I'm proud of her. She's not mine, my own child, but I'm just proud of her representing our faith."