Sarah is
the youngest Welch—a freshman piano performance major/physics minor at Ohio
University. Sarah began her musical studies with piano lessons at age four and
has participated in numerous competitions and masterclasses
since. In the family band, Sarah plays double bass while moonlighting on
guitar, banjo, and mandolin.
Throughout high school, Sarah participated in the High
School Mock Trial competition. In her senior year, her career culminated her team’s
reserve champion finish statewide and her receipt of the James E. Phillips
Award for the outstanding attorney in the state. She plans to join Ohio
University’s forensics team to continue to hone her speaking skills.
Besides music and arguing, Sarah enjoys beekeeping, sports,
typo-hunting, 4-H, photography, and writing. She developed and maintains the
family’s website as well as her own beekeeping website
and blog.
Favorite verses:
Psalm 124:1-5
“If the Lord had not been on our side, let Israel say, if the Lord had not been
on our side when men attacked us, when their anger flared against us, they
would have swallowed us alive; the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent
would have swept over us, the raging waters would have swept us away.”
Lamentations 3:19-30
“Remember my affliction and my roaming, the wormwood and the gall. My soul
still remembers and sinks within me. This I call to mind; therefore I have
hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions
fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your
faithfulness. ‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I hope in Him!’
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is
good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. Is it
good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Let him
sit alone and keep silent, because God has laid it on him; let him put his
mouth in the dust—there may yet be hope. Let him give his cheek to the one who
strikes him, and be full of reproach.”
Hebrews 4:14-16
“Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven,
Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not
have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have
one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet did not sin. Let us
then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive
mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.”