HOSA

or a clever organization.

High school people are going to listen to this and say, oh, we do that in DECA and we do that in HOSA and we do that in this personal finance class.

But it's like, yeah, that's not part of your curriculum.

Those are elective opportunities for some kids.

I googled this and I s- I'm not smart enough to understand it, so you're gonna have to explain it to me.

The HOSA national competition, it's H-O-S-A.

I don't...

Do you call it HOSA? It's a biomedical-

Yeah

... explain this thing to me.

So pretty much HOSA, it, it's pr- it's just, like, for all the people that wanna be a doctor in the world, there's a, a plethora of competitions that you can compete in for your category.

I competed in the HOSA Bowl, and I'm pretty sure my team won second at state, and I'm not, I'm not sure what we placed at nationals, but it's a really good experience.

So

after I took a class called HOSA in high school, I knew I wanted to do the nursing.

And so I applied there.

to a four-year college.

Yes, exactly that.

So when I was in HOSA, so HOSA is a high school student organization that basically creates learning opportunities for students interested in careers in health care.

So I competed in HOSA for about four years in high school.

And my most interesting years was my junior and senior year.

My junior year of high school, I was able to compete in the International Leadership Conference for HOSA, which was being held in Nashville.

And I remember I was able to witness my first donor recipient meeting and it was extremely powerful.

So I remember I was only 17 at the time, but after seeing that, it really just stuck in the back of my mind, like I'm going to do this at some point.

She was a member of the National Honor Society.

And really leaning into her interest in healthcare, she would also join her school's HOSA chapter.

That's H-O-S-A.

Uh, and that's an organization for those who are hoping to make a career in healthcare as they, uh, graduate high school and they move on.

Quote, "She was a wonderful girl, wonderful family." At Lyman Hall High School, she cheered, played volleyball, and lined up at powder puff football as a senior.

She was an honor student, a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish club, and she joined the school's HOSA chapter, a student club for kids who wanted a career in healthcare, visiting nursing homes and clinics twice a week.

There is a 2008 yearbook photo of her sitting with her HOSA classmates, a stethoscope around her neck and a wide smile on her face.

17 years old, and she had already chosen.

She was going to take care of people.

At Lyman Hall High School, Lindsay's activities crossed the usual social boundaries of high school.

The 2008 yearbook and school records identify her with cheerleading, volleyball, powderpuff football, the National Honor Society, Spanish Club, and HOSA.

a student organization for young people interested in health professions.

Through HOSA, students visited nursing homes and other clinical settings, and a surviving yearbook photograph shows Lindsay with a stethoscope around her neck with a small group.

Nursing was therefore not a career invented after college.

The interest was visible even as a teenager.

And that's sort of not as surprising because everyone hates Paxton.

But but the gubernatorial race in Texas is becoming competitive with Jenea and Hosa as well.

That's right.

And and then all of the like the gerrymander that Texas Republicans did thinking that they were going to have the 2024 electorate.