Smile

What makes Kate Lantzer smile? “My friends,” said the Fishers resident, who on June 3 turned her tassel and became a 2023 graduate of Hamilton Southeastern High School. She was winner of the 2023 Good Citizen of the Year Award by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Horseshoe Prairie Chapter, and was one of 13 state finalists at the Indiana Daughters of the American Revolution annual state conference in May in Indianapolis. Lantzer used her free time at school to assist the HSE Algebra teacher in helping others. At school, she was part of the HSE Mock Trial team and an executive board member of National Honor Society. She is the daughter of Jason and Erin Lantzer of Fishers and this spring had a current cumulative grade point average of 4.3, with a total of 12 advanced placement, dual credit and honors classes. She has been on the dean’s list since 2019. Her volunteer experience includes interviewing candidates for the HSE school board, a volunteer math tutor, teacher’s aide, an intermediate and junior high camp counselor and HSE Royal Rumble Mentor. She is team attorney for her school’s mock trial and awarded “most valuable participant” for the 2021-22 season and has been a competitive equestrian since 2013. She’s been riding for 10 years and has her own horse, Bama. She was in Law and Government Academy. She was peer-selected as vice president of Rho Kappa National Social Studies Honor Society chapter at HSE and helped register many eligible students to vote and helped find service opportunities for students. Lantzer has been a member of We the People since 2022, serving as a member and captain. Lantzer said the mock trial and We the People” programs have given her the opportunity to become more patriotic. After high school, she plans to attend Miami of Ohio University to study political science and gender societies. She wants to be a lawyer. Read more about her DAR finalist award in The Times.