Getting To Know Head Boy Shay Kothari

My favourite activity is definitely baseball. I play a lot of that outside of school with other Crescent grads. I’m a pitcher.

Born A Crime, by Trevor Noah. I read it last summer as a part of Crescent’s reading co-operative. It was cool to learn about the Apartheid in South Africa, and see how far we’ve come but also the things we can still improve on, especially in our own communities in Canada.

I got a dog for my 16th birthday. She’s a golden doodle named Coco.

It depends on the season. Either playing a late-night game of baseball with the boys and going out for dinner after, or a nice hockey game.

I want to say Christmas, but realistically it’s probably Thanksgiving. A lot of my family members travel for Christmas so Thanksgiving is when we can all come together.

It’s my baseball walk-up song, it’s called Pepas, by Faruso. It gets me hyped up.

I can give two answers to that question. One would be my signed Wayne Gretzky poster. My second would be my Rubik's Cube. I fidget with it and it gets my mind active. I learned how to do it a couple of years ago and I use it quite often. On our Grade 9 leadership retreat, I said to my buddy Cameron, “Could you teach me how to do this?” We sat there for three hours straight on the bus up to camp, and he taught me.

Probably being an artist, being able to draw properly. I took art in Grade 9 and it was a lot of finicky work, but there were some kids who could just draw really well with no problem.

I’ll say “fulfilled.” In whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to give one answer just yet.

There’s been quite a few, actually. A lot of them come from English class, for me. From last year, the personal essay unit we did was most memorable. It took a lot of personal reflection to write something that was good and meaningful.

Before being elected as Head Boy, the Grade 7 and Grade 8 BEAR Weeks were the most memorable. Those were two of the greatest weeks ever, and I still remember them to this day. We learned a lot from the Grade 11 leaders and stayed in cabins. I had never gone to overnight camp outside of school.

I’ve been saying this a lot this year as I’ve visited the Lower and Middle Schools. “Try everything.” Get involved and meet as many new people as possible — especially as we’re coming out of the pandemic. Be nice to everyone.