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Back row, from left to right, SHS Head Cross-Country Coach Sam Horsechief and Assistant Cross-Country Coach James Nells. Front row, from left to right, Ellis, Amanda, and Nancy Little.

TAHLEQUAH, OK - Amanda Little, a senior at Sequoyah High School (SHS), recently signed a letter of intent to run cross-country at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

"I'm glad I kept with it," Little said of her commitment to the SHS cross-country team. "I thought I would go to college to play softball."

Sam Horsechief, SHS cross-county coach, added that while Little was a good softball player, with the same dedication, she could be an equally good runner.

"I'm extremely proud of her," Horsechief said. "I think she's going to do real well up there, just concentrating on one sport."

Little, 18, of Tahlequah, is the daughter of Ellis and Nancy Little and the granddaughter of Marilyn and Joe Christie and the late Terry "Jim" Gourd, of Tahlequah and the late Terry and Ida Mae Little of Seminole, Okla. She was named a Muskogee Phoenix Academic All Star in 2004 and is an Achievement Academy All-American scholar. She is active in Honoring Our People's Existence (HOPE) club, National Honor Society, and Oklahoma Indian Honor Society. She is also the salutatorian of her class.

Little plans to major in physical therapy.

Sequoyah High School "Home of the Indians!" P.O. Box 520, Tahlequah, OK 74465             Sequoyah High School Alumni P.O. Box 187, Park Hill, OK 74451-0187 Sequoyah High School, an Indian boarding school, originated in 1871, when the Cherokee National Council passed an act setting up an orphan asylum to take care of many orphans that came out of the Civil War. Sequoyah High School's approximate 300 enrollment represents 42 tribes and 14 different states. Students are eligible to attend if they are members of federally recognized Indian tribes or one-fourth blood descendants of such members.