User:CircaRigel

Born 1974, CircaRigel is best known for her avid cycling, medical studies, love of Nature, and survival.

Athletics and medicine have always been an integral part of CircaRigel's life. She began competitive roller-skating just after her 6th birthday, where one of the coaches, impressed with her balance, flexibility and rhythm approached her mother and offered to coach her privately for free. She was quite successful in dance, figures and freestyle, and by the time she was 10 years old, she was competing with far older skaters- most of whom could drive already. CircaRigel retired from skating at age 11, citing the need to explore other interests outside of skating.

After her retirement, CircaRigel became an active member of the local 4-H club, where she was involved in projects for model rocketry, veterinary science, nature & wildlife, Arts & crafts, cake decorating, rabbits, guide dogs for the blind, horses, and many others. She also took a very active leadership role directly from the beginning, taking on the responsibility for leading the bread making, veterinary science, and nature & wildlife. She was also quite active in community activities and won many community service awards. A highlight of her first year took place when she entered a greased pig scramble at Demonstration Day (an event similar to a science fair, except with demos of projects instead of science experiments). CircaRigel caught that slippery little piglet without realizing that the person who catches the pig... keeps it. She had no idea what to do with it.

Ultimately, the pig became a mascot for her 4-H chapter. Everyone grew very fond of him and his antics. He loved to play catch with apples and loved being scratched under his chin. While the pigs would usually be sold for meat once they reached adult size, those were generally sows. All piglets in the scramble were supposed to be sows. Wilbur was a boar... oops. None of the club members had the heart to send him to be butchered, so when the time came, he was sold for stud.

CircaRigel worked her way up through the 4-H levels very quickly (Bronze, Silver and Gold star levels), and once she reached high school she was well on her way to becoming an All-Star, the equivalent to Eagle Scout. By this age, she was responsible for organizing entire events at the club, county, state and regional levels. On a yearly basis she would attend the teen leader conference (county), state leadership conference for California, and the Western Regional Leadership Conference, covering Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.