Saratoga Patch Whiz Kid of the Week—Sergio Cois

Sergio Cois, Age 17

School: Senior at St. John's Military School in Salina, KS

Accomplishments:

• Cadet at St. John's Military School
• Returned home to Saratoga for the holidays
• Fifth-year senior and battalion staff officer
• Has compiled a 3.5 GPA while exhibiting exceptional leadership skills in becoming the fourth highest-ranked cadet at the school
• First Lieutenant leading the Battalion S-4 division responsible for managing military property and running the mess hall
• Only student member of the St. John Military School Technology Board
• Participates athletically on the school’s soccer team as the stopper and wrestles in the 150-pound weight category
• Arrived at school as eighth-grader and immediately mastered military life rising quickly through the ranks to his current position of leadership
• Captain of the robotics team

Key to Awesomeness:

Sergio is the son of Francesca and Sebastiano Cois of Saratoga. His mother is a homemaker and his father is a real estate investor and developer.

Following graduation this year he plans to attend college either at Cal Poly or UC San Diego focusing on business and either administration or engineering.

St. John’s graduates are an accomplished group, according to school spokesman Jim Gregory. Recent graduates are attending military colleges, including West Point, deployed with the U.S. Armed Services in Afghanistan, and fulfilling the dream of playing college football through a scholarship.

The caring people of St. John’s Military School inspire young men to prepare themselves for a better future by accomplishing more than they might think possible, Gregory said.

Faculty and boarding school staff provide a safe, structured environment that encourages self-confidence and personal achievement. For the cadets, learning to overcome obstacles becomes second nature while individual intellectual and physical successes give them higher expectations that come from a greater belief in their own abilities, he added.

"The result is that St. John’s cadets perform at the highest level academically, physically, morally and spiritually," he wrote in an email interview.