Allen ISD Where Eagles Soar Magazine Spring 2018 | Page 8

Pursuing Their Passion
Recent Allen grads make strides in their careers
H
ow does Allen ISD prepare students for success in
college or a career? The formula is simple: from
kindergarten to senior year, encourage students to
find their passion and let them experience it on their own.
The following students are just a few of the many students
who graduated from Allen High School and found success in
their career.
Bradley Hastings , Class of 2013, was taking it one step
at a time, mile after
mile. He was racing in
the Dallas Marathon
and entering his ninth
mile when he heard
the cries for help.
He looked over and
saw another runner
unconscious and
lying on the asphalt.
Hastings, a registered
nurse at Baylor
University Medical
Center in Dallas, let his
instincts take control.
Bradley graduated Allen
High School in 2013 and is
now a nurse in the ICU at
Baylor Medical in Dallas.
until the EMTs
showed up.”
“I work with people
suffering from heart
attacks all the time, so I
just started performing
CPR on him,” Hastings
said. “Me and a few
others helped the guy
Hastings
didn’t think he
would be called
to duty when
the race began,
but sometimes
you’re just in the
AHS Health Science teachers,
right place at the
Kim
Lane,
left, and Stephanie Cook, right,
right time. The
served as mentors to Bradley Hastings
runner made a
during his days in college.
full recovery, but
first made a trip through the Intensive Care Unit at Baylor.
Hastings paid him a visit and the two had a chance to chat
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about the experience.
“He was so grateful that I was there to help him,” Hastings
said. “For me, it was great to see the positive outcomes that I
can have on a person’s life.”
Hastings first became interested in the medical field during
a biology course at the Lowery Freshman Center. From there,
he attended Health Science classes at Allen High School and
worked with teachers Kim Lane and Stephanie Cook, both
of whom served as mentors to him during his high school
and college days. He says that the courses at AHS fostered his
desire to pursue a degree and career in medicine.
“The courses allowed high school students to work with
actual patients and see exactly what this fiel