Our next Senior Spotlight is Aliya Gapultos!

Aliya is a basketball and track & field student-athlete at Roger Bacon. She attended Annunciation in Clifton before coming to Roger Bacon. Her favorite subject is history.

Aliya’s favorite memory as a student-athlete is playing against her best friends at Summit and going on the trip to Findlay, Ohio her freshman year. Her favorite team is the New York Knicks, any team with Kyrie Irving, and the Rocket City Trash Pandas.

Upon graduating Aliya plans to attend the University of Alabama and study Sports Media and Biology.

When asked what advice she would give her freshman self, she said:

"Your biggest opponent and biggest supporter is yourself — don’t let either one of them get to you."