Senior Spotlight: Raymen Sanabria

Raymen Sanabria runs cross country, which is 3.1 miles, and track for Yukon High School.

In track, he runs the 400, 800 and is going to try for the 900 hundred this year.

Sanabria said his own accomplishments include when he ran at state.  

“Last year, my junior year, when I ran at state, and I got two state medals for both the events I qualified for, the 4x8 and the 4x4,” he said.

Sanabria said sometimes cross country teams will also receive awards.

“We get plaques sometimes for cross country, we'll win the overall meet,” he said. “Those are awards to me as a team. We all do good together.”

Sanabria has also received a scholarship for Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma.

“I got a scholarship for running and academics, 10k for going to SNU, committed,” he said.

The benefit of SNU is that it’s close to his home.

“They are fairly expensive for me in a private Christian college, but they gave me so much money with the scholarship, academics, and running that I would technically almost be going for free,” Sanabria said. “So, I thought that was the best choice, and I can live at home.”

He said getting good grades and running are personal benefits.

“Doing what I love, it's a perk of life, I guess,” Sanabria said.

He said he’s always enjoyed running.

“When I was younger, I would just race kids to the ice cream truck. And then once I was in middle school, I was like, I want to do something,” Sanabria said. “It was basketball, football, too skinny to do football. So, I was like, ‘You know, let me try out track.’ And I happened to be the fastest in eighth grade, seventh grade.”

He wants to be a historian and curate in a museum in the future.

“I've always just happened to be good at knowing history and remembering stuff,” Sanabria said. “And then I went to museums when I was younger and just loved how they toured me around and told me all that stuff.And I feel like that's what fits me.”

He said his favorite era is during ancient Greece and Rome and certain parts of the 1920’s decade.

When it comes to graduating, Sanabria is going to miss his friends.

“Just going to miss my group of friends that I have now and the bonds we created,” he said.

Sanabria said he has researched his Comanche Heritage since leaving the Lawton area.

“Once a year, I go to the Comanche Nation Fair or I go see my grandparents down in Lawton, and just I see it in them,” he said. “It's really…the way you are, then really just the color or the race and my people and also, I have another Comanche friend. So, he runs with me.”

He’s in a fashion design class and said he’s good at stitching and sewing.

“I was forced into that class because I wanted to pick a different elective and they threw me in a random one,” Sanabria said. “At first, I was like, ‘I'm not stitching or sewing.’ And then I kind of [did] it. I liked it. So, I just stuck with it.”