Sydney Rae is a senior staff writer and first year member for The Park Press. She is an avid writer and story teller. Sydney won first place for the West Virginia Young Writers competition her sophomore year of high school. When she is not writing, Sydney can be found leading The Park Players (drama club) as president. Sydney has earned multitudes of leadership awards for theatre and enjoys spending her time, not only on stage, but writing scripts as well.

Sydney is a member of the National Honor Society, the International Thespian Society, and enjoys being a REAP councilor. In her free time, Sydney spends her late nights reading. She has a goal of reading 25 books this year and is soon going to surpass her goal. She plans to trudge toward a new goal of 30 books this year.