The 5-foot-9 junior sprinter won three individual state championships this spring and led the Thunderbirds to a fifth-place finish as a team at the Class A state meet. Akin-Otiko captured the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.69 seconds, the 200-meter dash
Akin-Otiko has maintained a 5.35 GPA on a five-point scale in the classroom.
A member of the National Honor Society, she has volunteered locally as a peer tutor and on behalf of multiple community-service initiatives in association with her church youth group.