Hi, I'm Liz Liano, Membership Coordinator here at KRWG Public Media.

We're going to be talking to a top teen today, one of the Mayor's Top Teens.

So welcome Miles, and congratulations for being a Mayor's Top Teen.

So we'd love to hear a little bit about you.

What's your full name and what school do you go to right now?

My name is Miles Odom and I go to Mayfield High School.

Very nice.

So, your Mayor's Top Teen, which means that you've worked exceptionally hard and, have been doing quite a few activities.

Can you enlighten us to what some of those activities are?

I mean, I take quite a few just harder courses and duel credit stuff to get college classes.

But on top of that, I try to do as many athletics as I can and just perform as well as I can, and basically anything I do.

That is a great, great slogan.

So what sports do you do?

I do track and tennis.

Track and tennis.

And what is your event in track?

I do pole vault.

Pole vault?

Wow, that sounds really tough.

Is it hard to get the pole to vault?

It can, It can be pretty tricky.

Yeah.

Sometimes you just kind of have to go at it and hope it works out for the best.

Wow, that's wild.

And you do tennis at the same time?

Yeah.

So you said you also take a lot of dual credit classes?

Like which ones?

I've taken like chemistry, and right now I'm taking psychology, and I feel like they're just good ways to kind of challenge yourself while getting the college credit to put you a little bit ahead once you do go to college.

And what other activities have you been working on outside of school?

Outside of my school, I'm really involved with my youth group.

Im the youth intern and for that.

So that's what I do, spend a lot of time doing, just helping set up for that and be with the kids there.

Oh, so what is that, necessarily entail, being the intern?

It's kind of just being there to set up everything and make sure everything runs smoothly, and you get to build relationships with all of the 6th grade through 12th graders.

So you're kind of the leader having to push them and help them grow closer to God.

That sounds like a really nice exercise of community and leadership.

What motivates you to do that?

My whole family has kind of been super involved with the church and with the youth group, so they kind of pushed me to do it.

And it's something that I just wanted to do.

So it's just it's a blessing to get to do that.

That's great.

That's really wonderful to hear Miles.

So what do you want to do moving on in the future?

What schools do you want to go to?

Right now, I'm planning on going to NMSU for kinesiology because I want to be a physical therapist.

Oh, cool, cool.

So you want to stay here?

You want to be a physical therapist?

Yes, ma'am.

And do you see yourself continuing, your community service and leadership?

Absolutely, yeah.

Just from the little bit of stuff that I've done so far, it's just has like great benefits on me and just the things that I've seen other people grow and go through.

It's just something that I would love to keep doing.

Wonderful.

Is there, something else that you want to share that I didn't cover?

Another activity?

This kind of, kind of random, but something I do is, It's called American Ninja Warrior, it's like the TV show online where you do obstacle courses.

So I've been doing that for about seven years.

You've been doing that?

The exercises are?

Like practicing building courses in my backyard.

I've learned a bunch of woodworking and welding to make my own obstacles and stuff like that.

Wow very cool.

What a fun little, what a fun little hobby slash, adventurous thing in your backyard.

Cool, well, congratulations again, Miles, for being a Mayors Top Teen.

We wish you all the best in the future.

Thank you very much.