A recent Swift Current Comprehensive High School graduate received the Junior Citizen of the Year Award which was presented by Lieutenant Governor Vaughn Soloman Schofield at a ceremony last week.

The award is presented to young people who live positive lifestyles, community and school spirit, with a sense of caring and responsibility.

Morgan Fast, from Swift Current, has overcome more challenges in a short time than most people face in a lifetime, including losing her mother to cancer when she was just seven years old.

She then went on to live with her uncle and aunt, who also had to undergo treatment for two serious bouts of cancer.

From then on, she decided she was going to succeed in life, and works as an instructor and lifeguard at the Aquatic Centre, and also volunteers in several capacities in the community.

"I have overcome a lot of adversity in my life. After everything went down with some of my family, I kind of grew up a bit and wanted to succeed. I became a lifeguard at the Swift Current Aquatic Centre also a swimming instructor. I swam with the Barracudas, I finished this year and I actually coached for them for two years as well," said Fast.

She volunteers with the Swift Current Care Home, Special Olympics Swim Meets, local ball diamond's concessions, Kiwanis Club, and Heart and Stroke Foundation.

A $3,000 bursary was presented to each of the four winners courtesy of SaskPower.

Fast says the future will bring her to Medicine Hat College to study nursing.

"It's a really amazing feeling, being presented it by the Lieutenant Governor it's really remarkable. At the same time I'm not really a spotlight person, so it was really emotional for me at the start, but I'm really proud," said Fast.