♪ [Sing Yee Her sings "No Lub Siab" by Maly Vue in Hmong] ♪
- Sing Yee Her: My name is Sing Yee Her
and I go to Eau Claire North High School.
- Hmong music and dance
have always been a big part of Sing Yee Her's life.
- Sing Yee Her: You can just express your feelings and stuff
and let out your emotions.
And, I guess, you're just like
in your own world when you're dancing.
- A world that got even bigger for Sing
when she started competing
in local Hmong music competitions.
- Sing Yee: Couple years ago,
I went to my first singing competition.
♪ [sings "Kev Hlub Ntawm Kuv Niam" by Koob Tsheej Xyooj] ♪
I was really nervous.
And then, like two months later,
I signed up for another singing competition,
which is in Eau Claire.
I ended up doing really well [laughs]
and I ended up winning first place.
So, that was really exciting for me.
- Off the stage,
Sing's attention is focused on sports.
She's a three-sport athlete
for the Eau Claire North High School Huskies.
- Sing Yee Her: Some of my favorite memories
from high school are...
getting on varsity soccer my freshman year.
That was, like, one of my goals
to get on varsity for soccer.
- But like many athletes across the state,
- Sing Yee Her: I'm going to miss, like, my underclassmen
because I have a lot of underclassmen friends.
Some of them I play soccer with,
and since, like, we didn't get our season this year,
like it's real.
I'm getting sad talking about it,
but I just wish, like, I could play ball with them again.
[sniffs, laughs lightly]
A message that I want to give to us seniors
is just stay positive in life.
Even though our senior year
didn't end how we wanted,
there's still going to be better things for us later in life.
So, just stay positive.