Winning a championship or throwing a game-winning touchdown pass aren’t the only hallmarks of a successful high school career. Sometimes it’s the friendships you make and the legacy you leave behind that are the important things. And such is the case with Antlers Class of 2021 graduate Macy Porter. Macy took part in athletics, playing a forward on the Lady Bearcats basketball team and also playing golf where she was a two-time state qualifier. The basketball team never enjoyed much success but Macy played the one bag in golf in her freshman year when she first went to state and then again this spring. Not having a golf season last year due to the pandemic seemed to have its effect on Macy.
“With all of my school activities and my home course being 45 miles away, it made getting to the course during the off-year tough. This season started slow coming out of basketball. I didn’t even place in our first tournament which has almost never happened. That was a real eye opener for me and I worked hard to shave 16 strokes off my game over the next two weeks.”
Macy qualified for state and finished sixteenth. But there was another aspect of the tournament that gives an insight into what Macy is all about.
“Most of the friends I made my freshman year at state were gone by this year. And though I didn’t get a top 10 finish as I had hoped, making a lot of new friends this year changed the whole season for me.”
In addition to her athletic endeavors, Macy was president of the school chapter of the Business Professionals of America, treasurer of the National Honor Society chapter, homecoming queen and valedictorian of her graduating class. She also has another passion that takes up a lot of her time-music.
“I’ve been involved in music all my life and it’s something that me and my dad have shared. I’m a three-year All-State trumpet player in the Pride of Antlers band and I also play the piano, guitar, French horn and am a percussionist.”
But it’s not really for any of these activities that Macy says she would like to be remembered by those following her.
“I’d like to be remembered as being a friend to everyone. I’ve got a lot of underclassmen friends which sometimes is unusual for a senior and I just ask them to try to improve one percent every day in whatever they do. I would also like be remembered as someone who worked hard no matter what kind of personal problems I was dealing with.”
Macy plans to attend the University of Oklahoma and major in psychology and minor in music with an eye towards attending law school someday.
