Senior Spotlight: Rebecca Burgess

Rebecca Burgess plays as a setter for the Indiahoma High School Warriors volleyball team.

She also plays center outfield in softball, wing and point guard in basketball and golf.

Burgess said he enjoys hyping up her team and cheering them on.

“I like encouraging them and letting them know to stay positive before the game,” she said. “So sometimes they'll get frustrated during the game and I tell them, ‘Hey, keep your head up we're still going.’”

Burgess said she’ll miss her underclass classmen the most and spending time with them.

“They keep me going and they always put a smile on my face every single day when I walk in school or in practice and games and I always like to make them laugh all the time,” she said. “I like making people laugh.”

Looking forward, Burgess said she wants to be a coach because of her current coach.

“My coach, her name is Coach Beatty. She is a very motivated coach and going coach and I love her so much. She's like one of the best coaches that I ever had,” she said. “She takes the time to spend with players and like players that don't understand the play. She helps them a lot.”

However, being an ultrasound tech is also intriguing to Burgess.

“Because I saw it all over TikTok, and it was popping up on my page a lot, and I feel like it was giving me a sign or something,” she said. “And I pressed on it, and I was scrolling through online, and I was interested in it, and some of my aunts are nurses.”

But Burgess is nervous about the future.

“Nervous to start a new chapter in life,” she said. “Gonna miss all my friends especially my best friend. We're gonna both go our separate ways. I'm going to college.”

Burgess said she also spends a lot of time with her family.

“We spend a lot of family time together, like going to powwows or eating dinner,” she said. “We do a lot of spending time at home.”

Burgess said she goes to powwows a lot.

“I travel all over the United States,” she said. “…Go to different powwows. I make a lot of new friends.”

Burgess is also a part of IMNDN and Walters Service Club and said she’s learned to be proud of her heritage because not all kids have learned about their history.

“Because some kids are disconnected from their culture,” she said. “Like parents don't tell them about who they are, like what tribe they come from or their traditions, culture.”