By: Sydney Brammer
As some of you Rangers may know, Belle Gendron, ’21 is one of the star players on the girls Varsity water polo team, but what are her plans for after high school? Will she be continuing her water polo career in college? Well, the answer to that is no!
In fact, Gendron doesn’t know what college she will be attending yet. However, she does know what she wants to pursue, and that’s discipleship here in this very town, Visalia!
She hopes to attend a discipleship school and a 24-hour house of prayer that is connected to her church, Radiant. The 24-hour house of prayer is an idea that a place will be open all day where anyone can attend to pray, worship, etc.
How did Gendron come to this decision? She says, “I think in my heart I knew that water polo wasn’t the direction the Lord wanted my life to go. Every time I think about playing college ball, or even going to college, I would be taken over by this unsettling in my stomach, I had no peace about it.”
To make this final decision, according to Gendron, someone had been praying about the discipleship school and the 24-hour house of prayer and right then, she knew that’s what she wanted to do.
Gendron plans to stay in Visalia because “there are so many people here and so many places that this city has that can be poured into.” She also plans on going on mission trips through the school!
Photo Credits: Belle Gendron
Now what about water polo? Gendron hopes to play for the rest of her life, possibly play for a club. If we go back to school, this will be her last season playing high school polo and she finds it “disappointing, but exciting” because she loves the sport, but she loves the plan the Lord has for her even more.
Something fun and interesting to leave you off with and to get to know Gendron a little better, her full first name is Isabelle which means “pledged to God/God is my oath” which she says, “has been a common theme in my life”.
Let’s hope for the best for Gendron’s future in discipleship here in Visalia and the plan the Lord has for her and pray she gets her last season of water polo at Redwood!
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