Abigail Hardy is an ASU Cronkite School of Journalism student assigned to cover Mountain View High School for AZPrep365.com

Lucee Lamoreaux is a busy girl. 

The Mountain View senior participates in flag football, cheerleading, and track and field while maintaining her studies at the Mesa school.

“I always knew I was going to do at least one sport in high school,” Lamoreaux said.

But her senior year would top the cake, from being named All-6A Conference first team and Offensive Player of the Year in flag football. 

Then her cheerleading team placed third in the nation at the UCA National High School Cheerleading Championship in Florida. 

Just as in every sport, there are some setbacks. 

“I broke my finger during football season, so I had to have it taped in my glove,” Lamoreaux said. “So that was difficult.” 

While dealing with the injury in flag football, that injury caused a pause in cheerleading. 

“I didn’t really tumble, so I took a couple of weeks off, and then for stunting I would have my pinky out,” Lamoreaux said.

With four years of working with different teams and players, Lamoreaux has emerged as a leader for her teams. 

Lamoreaux said she looks for a team that is willing to work hard and wants to get something out of the sport.  

“When I was an incoming freshman and she was a sophomore on track she was just super warm and inviting,” junior track and field athlete Lexi Archibald said. “She just uplifted everybody and pushed everyone to be their best.” 

Archibald and other track teammates have nothing but positive remarks about how much of a leader Lamoreaux is.

“She is a really good person to look up to and a really good person to make goals for yourself,” senior athlete Seneca Robinson said. 

At the beginning of the school year, cheerleading and flag football are played at the same time. 

“I didn’t have to skip one for the other,” Lamoreaux said. “Cheer was pretty much every day. Flag football was Monday through Thursday.

“For cheer, we would have practice in the morning, and then flag football would be after school, so they would never collide.”

Lamoreaux said trying to balance schoolwork and giving time and effort to each sport has been a challenge. 

“I’ll do my practice, and then I'll come home and I’ll do my homework pretty much right after I get home,” Lamoreaux said.  

She said she still feels motivated after practice.

“It’s a lot more fun if you are a part of either a sport or just any extracurricular at school,” Lamoreaux said. “Sometimes it’s hard to make friends outside of school, having sports you can go and have other things to do instead of going home and having nothing. It makes it a lot more enjoyable to actually go to school.” 

Lamoreaux said the social aspect of playing sports has made school more enriching. 

Graduating in May Lamoreaux will continue her education at BYU in the fall.

Lamoreaux doesn’t know if she chooses to play sports in college. 

“I was thinking about doing track in college, but I don’t know yet,” Lamoreaux said. “A lot of track schools are very competitive.”