By J1 Reporter Mary McKay

The race between grades to raise the most money for Walk-A-Thon is already competitive, but what is the competition between siblings like? Walk-A-Thon is Marian’s student- run fundraiser to raise money for tuition assistance. For the past years, it has been a competition between grades racing to raise the most amount of money in order to walk the shorter route and get to the party first. Students often ask family members to donate in their name and for their grade, but for siblings, this could be difficult. 

Junior Jasmine Sanchez spoke on behalf of her and her younger sister, freshman Rosie Sanchez. She said, “Yes there is some competitive nature, but we still support one another.”

The Sanchez’s mom likes to give more money to her children as upperclassmen but as underclassmen they have to raise their own money. That being said, as a family they would support one another by having family dinners at the freshman and junior kickback nights. Although their parents give more to Jasmine as a junior upperclassmen, she says, “My grandparents like to keep it even and give Rosie and I the same amount.”

The competition is not high between the Sanchez siblings as they support one another but they agree that they tend to support their own bake sale more than one another’s “in the nicest way possible,”  Jasmine said.

Junior Annie Stessman and her older sister, Maggie Stessman, Class of ‘23 had a pretty similar take on competition. For the Stessman siblings it seems the family roles swapped. Her parents gave even amounts of money to her and Maggie while her family and family friends would vary on “how hard we worked asking for it,”  Annie said. The Stessman sisters also liked supporting each other’s bake sales, but tended to purchase more from their own. 

It shows that family rivalries seem not to be the case, at least in these two families.. Competition is there, but as sisters, they enjoyed supporting each other despite the reward of winning.