At last, the Class of 2021 gathers together — for graduation
As the summer of 2020 slipped toward fall, Sierra Vista High senior Johnny Sen had all but given up on the idea of finishing school. Hobbled from a severe knee injury suffered his junior year, the starting defensive end didn’t think he’d be ready to play another season of varsity football. “I didn’t see having a senior year,” he said.
Meanwhile, his mother was hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms. She succumbed in December after a few weeks in a coma. “Her lungs gave out, her heart gave out.” Battling cancer, “she didn’t have the energy to fight anymore,” Johnny said. “I was at my grandma’s house, crashing on her couch. I got a call that my mom in the hospital, she’s not going to make it. We’ve got to say our final goodbyes. I had to leave at 3 a.m., go over to the hospital.
Johnny lives with his two sisters, brother, sister-in-law and their baby and his grandmother who is recovering from COVID. “My grandma is really sick. She was in the hospital with COVID. She’s back now, but she’s slowing down,” he said. “It’s like a whole family thing. The whole family’s over, we’re all helping our grandma.”
Loud cheers and hoots ring out as Johnny Saren Sen carries his diploma off the stage located on the football field that brought him great joy. His smile and proud gait are a sign that he’s leaving a tough year behind. Johnny Sen and fellow members of the Sierra Vista High Class of 2021 at prom on campus. The seniors finished a most unusual year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Only a few attended classes on campus the last few weeks of the school year.
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