Caroline Stohrer, a student at Hunter College High School, excels in every facet of her academic journey.

“I love school,” Stohrer explained. “Some people find it a drag to go to school, but I wake up every morning excited to go to school. I’m excited to be challenged.”

She not only thrives in her studies, but is a leader on the lacrosse field, was on the nationally ranked Team Image junior synchronized skating team, and plays the violin.

“It goes down to, what do I want to do well in? It feels like for the past few years I’ve wanted to do well in these certain things and so my efforts have paid off,” Stohrer said.

And paid off they have. Stohrer is a member of the Latin National Honor Society, carries a 97 GPA and she just signed with the Haydenettes, a synchronize skating team out of Boston.

“They recently just won silver at the world championships,” Stohrer said.

“Other athletes always look to her for advice, and she’s constantly giving it,” Thomas Harper, Stohrer’s physical education teacher, told NY1. “She’s just a super competitor.

“You have to move on past a bad play or move on past a defeat. You know, all that is important. It’s the same in academics, you know, you get a bad grade, it’s not the end of the world,” Stohrer said.

“She can be totally fearless and just dive in and be ready to give it her best shot.  She’s not afraid of failing, which is really great,” said Stohrer’s Latin teacher, Christopher Unruh.

Caroline is off to Harvard next year to study Latin and Economics with dreams of becoming an attorney. She has advice for her younger classmates.

“Life is not a linear journey,” Stoher said. “It’s not just like, oh I did bad, now I’m going to do bad forever. It’s all about finding how you can grow. You know, if something is bad right now, it will get better.”

That’s guidance we can all learn from.