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Steve Trudelle, #899, runs next to a competitor at Central Coast Section championships. Steve qualified for state level championships for the second year.
Athletics
Although he didn’t become a student at Woodside Priory until ninth grade, Steve Trudelle has lived on campus longer than any boarding student. Steve has called the Priory home since age two when he moved on campus with his family. He says that living at the school has made a huge impact on his life.
As a little boy Steve climbed the tree in his backyard every day to watch Priory athletes practice, and attended every game he could. He idolized the older boys, and got to meet many of them when he joined his Dad on Priory school field trips or at student talent shows.
During his own high school years at Priory, Steve became one of the best of those athletes, with a Priory sports career that included participation and leadership roles in basketball, cross-country, track, baseball, and this year’s PSAL Championship Volleyball Team. Steve leaves Priory with a trophy case full of sports awards including Volleyball and Cross-Country MVP, PSAL All League Team honors in multiple sports, and Priory’s Male Athlete of the Year honors in both his junior and senior years. That’s a record no other Priory athlete has achieved.
Steve also leaves Priory with a sense of who he is and where he’s going. He plans to train hard this summer and compete in track at the college level. When he joins the freshman class at University of San Diego this fall, Steve may pursue careers in business, or medicine, or
engineering. They all interest him, but he’s undecided on his major.
What he is decided on, though, is a core goal that that will serve as the framework for whatever he does in the future - helping people in need. The hours Steve spent on the playing fields at the Priory were important, but he feels the hours he spent in community service, at church, and doing mission work in Mexico were even more important.
Menlo Park Rotary Club recognized that service commitment in awarding Steve a $5,000 scholarship. (Steve also received a gratifying number of athletic scholarship offers, said his college counselor.)
From those experiences Steve says he’s learned that “service is really an attitude, not a formal requirement perse.” ForSteve,approachinglifewitha“service”
attitude has transferred positively to every aspect of life, and it’s made all kinds of obligations and responsibilities a lot more fun - from the volleyball court to school to helping out at home. It’s an attitude he plans to carry into his college career and beyond.
- L. McDermott
Steve Trudelle Sets A New Record for Sports Excellence
Steve Trudelle
Class of 2000
Cross Country - Varsity (4 years), Captain (3 years), Coaches Award (1 year), MVP (3 years), 2nd Team All League (1 year), 1st Team All League (2 years), Qualified for State Meet (2 years).
Track - Varsity (2 years), MVP (1 year), League Champion in 3200m (2 years)
Volleyball - JV (1 year), Varsity (3 years), Captain (2 years), 2nd Team All League (1 year), Most Improved (1 year), Co-MVP (1 year), League MVP (1 year)
Basketball - JV (1 year), Varsity (3 years), Captain (2 years), Coaches Award (1 year) Baseball - JV (1 year), Coaches Award (1 year) Woodside Priory Male Athlete of the Year - 1998-99 and 1999-00
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