Junior student sees success in competitive activities at and beyond SHS
by Kylee Hunt
SANFORD – Ryder Lachance, Sanford student, has more to his life than just school and work. He’s a competitive cornhole player and an established wrestler. “I first started playing cornhole when I was around 12 years old” and “I got into it through my grandfather, who started playing way before me.” He has competed locally and throughout the US and has also earned money by winning competitions.
Ryder also participates in school sports and mentions an interference of the two that he called a challenge: “When I started wrestling, I couldn’t play cornhole as much, so I kinda lost my skills, and it took a while to get back to the level I was on.” Even with that challenge, Ryder said: “Cornhole has built confidence in my everyday life because I know that if I put enough effort and work in, I can really do anything.” It has still stayed an active part of his life.
Lachance not only “won a league in Portland,” he was the “number 1-ranked thrower there out of 200 other players.”
What’s his proudest moment? When he “got the opportunity to go to South Carolina to play the best in the world,” Which Ryder said was “his proudest moment.”
