{"id":51373,"date":"2026-05-11T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/?p=51373"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:17:12","slug":"spotlight-2026-lyla-hickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/student-life\/2026\/05\/11\/spotlight-2026-lyla-hickey\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight 2026- Layla Hickey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Name is Layla Hickey and I am an 18 year old Senior at North Penn High School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am involved in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unified Bocce, Unified Track and Chorus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unified Track is my favorite because I am a talented runner and I enjoy throwing the, \u201cMini-Jav.\u201d I like the Mini- Jav because it is an aggressive event <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and sometimes it just feels good to throw things. I would not recommend throwing it backwards, though. Trust me!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My favorite subject is Art. I like how peaceful Mr. Flynn\u2019s room is. We even get to enjoy dramatic music while we create. It is chill and you get to draw, paint and use materials to make art. I also have it first period so it is an enjoyable start to the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the future, I plan to\u00a0 attend Montgomery County Community College. I am still figuring out what I want to do but I am interested in Acting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the things I find the most appealing about NPHS are the Nachos in the cafeteria, my friends<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">participating in Unified Bocce. I started Bocce in my tenth grade year after I played in my adapted PE class. I discovered that I was actually really good at it. I have a visual impairment and I access adaptive equipment so that I can hear where the Pallina is. In Bocce, the Pallina is where we aim the Bocce Balls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wish the school day started later, perhaps at the time of elementary school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of my favorite memories is the time I read the Special Olympics Athlete\u2019s Oath at a home meet. I remember being terrified but I still stood up and made my way to the microphone. When the announcer handed us the microphone, I felt determined and I knew that I had memorized every word. Afterwards, I felt relieved and empowered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Name is Layla Hickey and I am an 18 year old Senior at North Penn High School. I am involved in Unified Bocce, Unified Track and Chorus. Unified Track is my favorite because I am a talented runner and I enjoy throwing the, \u201cMini-Jav.\u201d I like the Mini- Jav because it is an aggressive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"staff_name":[1628],"class_list":["post-51373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life","staff_name-lyla-hickey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51462,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51373\/revisions\/51462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51373"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=51373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}