Palisadian Lauren Carter graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania this spring, double majoring in Environmental and Urban Studies. Carter was team captain her senior season and led the Quakers to three Ivy League championships. In September, she will begin teaching with Teach For America in New York City. One of her Big Apple roommates will be former Palisades High teammate Jenny Badram-Grycan, a setter at Villanova, who also just graduated. Carter plans to enter graduate school in Public Policy in two years. Carter was a standout soccer and volleyball player at Palisades High from 1996 to 2000, leading the Dolphins’ varsity volleyball squad to three consecutive City championships and earning the City’s most valuable player award and the Post Cup Award as PaliHi’s outstanding athlete her senior. She was also a four-year varsity starter and three-time All-City goaltender in soccer.
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