1. The Personal Biography of Breanna Nielsen
Red Deer College Building on Excellence Academic Award
From a very young age, under the influence of my supporting parents, I have
understood the importance of a good education. Early into my education experience, I
strived to bring home the perfect report card, and as each year past by, working hard to
achieve my personal best became a natural habit just as much as a priority. This natural
habit to do my personal best not only developed throughout my education, but spread
into sports, work, and pretty much anything else I associated myself with. By being
motivated to work hard, I also developed a strong sense of leadership in everything I
did. I began to naturally lead group assignments and took on roles as team captain, and
soon following these experiences, had earned the place of Class President for my grades
9 and 10 years, Volleyball Team Captain in grades 9 and 11, taken on my very own
volleyball team as a coach throughout the 2009/2010 volleyball season, as well as taken
on the role as the Grad Trip Organizer for the graduating class of 2010 at Lacombe
Composite High School.
Throughout my life, I have learned to understand that life is a learning
experience, despite your age, there is always more to understand, more knowledge to
gain, and more experiences to live through. But as a growing and maturing teenager
myself, I have come to understand the severity and importance of a good, strong
foundation developed throughout the early years of a life. As children and young youth
grow up, their early experiences and observations of the world around them develop

2. and influence who they will become in the future and how they see the rest of the
world. Having dealt with similar experiences as a young person, I hold an interest in
helping those children and young youth who are trying to develop their individual
identities within the world’s society. In the life of young people today, we struggle with
pressures from the media, peer and parental expectations, divorce, stress, fear,
developing self confidence, and much more. My interests are to help aid young people,
much like myself, in conquering the struggles thrown upon us in life, to better prepare
ourselves for the future and result in a healthy, happy, long life.
With this area of interest, I have chosen to begin my journey at Red Deer College
taking a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology, to allow myself to better understand the
human experience and lead me down the path towards my future ambitions. In the
future, I can see myself using my natural characteristic of being a leader, to begin my
own organization which concentrates on aiding young people towards conquering the
struggles of early life, and encourage and motivate them towards achieving the dreams
they have set for their own lives.
I would like to thank you for recognizing my hard work to get to this point in my
life, and appreciate your support of allowing me to become one step closer to achieving
my dreams.