{"id":48480,"date":"2020-05-22T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=383819"},"modified":"2020-05-22T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T01:30:00","slug":"mcmurtry-sisters-credit-sports-summit-high-ib-program-en-route-to-valedictorian-salutatorian-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/mcmurtry-sisters-credit-sports-summit-high-ib-program-en-route-to-valedictorian-salutatorian-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"McMurtry sisters credit sports, Summit High IB program en route to valedictorian, salutatorian honors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summit High School class of 2020’s valedictorian and salutatorian are twins Jordan and Jenevieve McMurtry of Silverthorne, pictured after the graduation parade in Breckenridge on May 21.<\/strong>
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SILVERTHORNE \u2013 Nearly two decades before the novel coronavirus pandemic, Summit High School seniors Jordan and Jenevieve McMurtry were born into a time period with its own trauma. When the identical twins were born on Oct. 25, 2011, it was in the wake of the September 11 attacks. They started their journeys months after their older sister, Jessica, at younger than 2-years-old, pointed up at their mother Jeanette\u2019s ultrasound and excitedly yelled out \u201ctwo!\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the moment Jeanette and her husband, John, realized they\u2019d be bringing not one, but two more McMurtrys into the world. It was a place which, after Sept. 11, 2001, was a tough experience for Jeanette and the family that put the importance of mental strength in perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was emotional,\u201d Jeanatte said, \u201cthinking this world is so chaotic and thinking of what to expect. What kind of world we\u2019re bringing the kids into. So one of the things we tried to teach them \u2014 9\/11 or not \u2014 is you can\u2019t control things that happen in this world, but you can control how you respond. And one of the things I\u2019ve noticed about these girls is they are extremely resilient. They are dedicated in school, in sports, and they know you have to get back on the saddle, get back on the ski chair, go back to the top of the course.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like the rest of their friends, classmates and teammates at Summit High School, the McMurtry twins have done their best to show resiliency over the past two months as their lives and their last semester of senior year experience was upended by COVID-19. The sister-sister duo of skiers, soccer players and talented students are candid that the past two months have been especially hard for them, as the confines and sporting grounds of Summit High School were the only locations they ran into so many of the familiar faces they called friends.<\/p>\n

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