Taking a break with...Emily Bain

Freshman Emily Taapke Bain, a member of the OHHS Cross Country team, was born on May 24th in Anacortes and raised in Oak Harbor. She is the daughter of Mike and Wendy Bain. Her dad works for the Oak Harbor School District in the maintenance department, and mom is a supervisor at Safeway. Emily has 2 sisters, 9-yar-old Meredith and 24-year-old Jessica. We asked her about her unusual middle name, and she said it was Dutch.

So far this year, Emily has ‘A’s and ‘B’s in all her classes, and one of her goals for the year is to get all her grades up to an ‘A’ along with “get all my work done”. It helps that she’s enjoying her classes, in particular Wood Tech I with Mr. Mueller. Emily said she likes that class best as it’s her only class where “we get to do stuff” instead just sit and listen to the teacher. When asked who her favorite teacher has been, she hardly hesitated before saying it was Mrs. Morgan-Mueller. Emily said it was because “she has lots of personality” and is funny.

Athletically, Emily’s main goal this year is to crack a 6:30 mile, and she is getting close, and still has track season to work on it. Also on the subject of sports, Emily like to play recreational soccer along with running, and her most memorable sports moment came during a co-ed soccer game, one of her first, when she was about 9 years old. She was on defense facing off against a boy when the two tangled and fell. Emily got up and back into the game while the little boy stayed there crying. Although she felt bad for making the boy cry, she didn’t feel bad for beating him in the play. When she isn’t running, Emily really liked to watch football, especially the Oak Harbor Wildcats and the Seattle Seahawks.

We asked her what her most memorable life moment was, and she had to think long and hard about it. She finally remembered something that happened when she was about 5 or so. Her sister Meredith had just been born in Anacortes, and she was in the car with her father on the way to visit Meredith and mother. It was a dark and stormy night, during one of Whidbey’s famous storms, and just after crossing the Deception Pass Bridge, they found the road blocked by a fallen tree. She remembers that she was quite scared, and that date was nervous as well, as his path to the hospital was blocked.

Outside of sports, Emily is into country music, and listened to KMPS quite often. Her favorite movies are just about anything by Pixar, but especially Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo. When scanning the TV channels, she’s most likely to stop and watch Spongebob Squarepants.

While we all know that plans change throughout high school, but right now, Emily plans to go on to college and eventually become a medical doctor. When asked where she might like to practice her profession, she instantly said “Iowa”. We asked her why Iowa, and she said it was because at heart, she is just a country girl.