Decoding BHS: Featured Forker: Jorge Zavala

Editor's note: This article was written by a student at Bigfork High School as part of the Decoding BHS project, in which the Bigfork Eagle teams up with the Norse Code staff to allow students to produce a page in the newspaper. See the latest Decoding BHS page in the Oct. 28 print edition.

Jorge Zavala, a freshman at Bigfork High School, may seem shy at first, but once you get to know him, he is, according to friend Stephen Lyon, "obnoxious fun and the nicest person that you will ever meet."

In fact, Lyon said he has never seen Zavala in a bad mood nor does he get angry.

Zavala's friends believe that if he keeps up his good grades and keeps doing well in soccer he will get a scholarship offer to play college soccer. Following in his father and brother's footsteps, Zavala is playing soccer to his greatest ability.

"I hope one day I will be the No. 1 player on the Mexican team," Zavala said.

Zavala goes to California to visit his cousins and plays soccer through the summer, but soccer isn't his whole life. When he comes back to Montana, he works with his family at a cherry stand.

Family is also important to Zavala whose parents also own a business in Bigfork called Taco Mexico. During winter break, he goes down to Mexico with his three younger sisters and older brother to visit his grandparents.

This year Zavala is wearing No. 7, but next year he is hoping to wear No. 14 and continue to play with that number through the rest of his soccer career.

"I'm not trying to follow someone else's number. I just want to start my own so others can follow me as well as look up to me," Zavala said.