If Enloe is a game of Clue, senior Lucy Bharwani is found guilty in the stadium with a notebook. Her crime? Killing with kindness. 

As a soccer player, IB scholar and PEPI aficionado, Bharwani is part of many of Enloe’s communities.

She joined the Enloe Women’s Soccer program in a midfield position her freshman year, when she was listed as dual roster, meaning she played for both the JV and varsity teams. She’s played strictly for varsity since sophomore year, and considers herself a “consistent presence” on the soccer field.

“I’ve made a lot of really good friends on the soccer team, and a lot of really good memories,” Bharwani said. She added that her favorite memory from her four years at Enloe was the team’s trip to Lake Gaston in early 2023. “We played soccer, we ran around the lake, we stayed up talking [and] played all these games,” she said. “It was just a really fun experience.”

Outside of Enloe, Bharwani said she’s been playing club soccer for almost her entire life, and she’s learned a lot from the sport. “Playing soccer has definitely taught me perseverance, and how to keep going when things get rough and [to] keep showing up,” she said. 

The work ethic she’s gained from soccer has served her well not only on the field, but in Enloe’s rigorous IB program. 

Bharwani said she’s enjoyed writing many of the research papers for her IB classes because “you get to pick the topics that you’re interested in, and you get to explore them in a deeper, more meaningful way,” she said. “I feel like it’s really appealed to my curiosity.” 

When asked to describe herself in three words, curious was one of her selections. “I’m just curious about so many things,” she said, “and I just want to learn about all the things that interest me.” 

While many students need grade incentives to be motivated to learn, those who know Bharwani best expressed that she wants to learn simply for the knowledge itself. 

She has “so many different questions about so many different topics,” said her sister Sam Bharwani, an Enloe sophomore. “I feel like she’s never satisfied with just a baseline of knowledge. She always wants to deepen what she knows and how it connects to all the things she does.”

One of Bharwani’s largest involvements at Enloe is with PEPI, or Physical Education Pupil Instruction, her self-proclaimed favorite class. Students in PEPI spend half of their time running a P.E. class for the Special Education students at Enloe, and the other half volunteering with children at Poe Elementary School. 

“I’ve had a lot of fun getting to know the Special Ed kids here,” Bharwani said. “My freshman and sophomore year, I didn’t even know that we had a Special Ed program, or where the Special Ed classrooms were. But through PEPI, I’ve gotten to really connect with these students.” 

In addition to her work with PEPI, Bharwani supports the Special Education students as co-president of Unify, the Enloe club that mixes Special Education students with the general student body to promote friendship.

Bharwani said she especially loves helping the kindergarten and first grade students at Poe, and the experience has given her insight into her future. 

She said she’s considering majoring in elementary education in college, because “I feel like working with little, little children is one of the things that just comes so naturally to me. I just know what to say and I know what to do.” 

Friend and fellow Enloe senior Emily Stewart said Bharwani loves the subject. Every time Bharwani returns from Poe, “she has the biggest smile on her face,” Stewart said. “She has to hug all of [the younger students] goodbye when she’s leaving … [and] I have to drag her out of the cafeteria because of how much she enjoys being there.” 

Ultimately, Bharwani said she loves PEPI because “being able to do something that has a positive impact in your community, whether at Poe or Enloe, everyday at school is a really good feeling.”

This sentiment is also why Bharwani enjoys volunteering. She said she’s volunteered for several years and likes being a service head for National Honor Society because it allows her to share the service opportunities she finds with other people.

While Bharwani’s contributions to the school are numerous, her friends and family made it clear that her personality shines even brighter. 

“I want to be remembered as someone who is kind, and who people could ask for help [without being] judgemental,” Bharwani said. 

Her friends noted her caring persona.

“She will be remembered as a kind person,” senior Peter Baucom assured. He recalled her junior year Charity Ball, when she saw a girl she barely knew sitting alone and went over to start a conversation. “There was no prompt there,” Baucom said. “It was just out of the kindness of her heart.”

Stewart added to this sentiment. “She cares about other people so much,” she said, “and I really like being friends with her because it’s to an extent that I feel like sometimes I don’t understand.”

Stewart said that junior year, Bharwani would bring candy to the team’s soccer games and share it with her friends. Eventually, it turned into a team-wide tradition, in which every player gets candy when they join the bench. 

“She simultaneously balances trying and having fun,” Stewart said, citing the candy as an example. “She can do both at the same time, and I really like that.”

Bharwani isn’t just a role model for the younger students at Poe or her friends at Enloe, her sister said, but rather serves as an example in all areas of her life.

She cares deeply about everything she does, Sam Bharwani added, “so being around her in different settings, like at home and like at school, you pick up on … the habits that she has that make you want to do that extra club or study that much harder.” 

Sam Bharwani described her sister as hardworking, but said that she’s sure to leave time for fun, often in the form of playing Clue. “I just like the puzzle of it and the detective thinking,” Bharwani said. The game fills Bharwani with adrenaline, Stewart added. 

Just as a game of Clue eventually comes to an end, so too will Bharwani’s time at Enloe. As she prepares to fly away from the nest, Bharwani reflected on her high school experience. 

She’s proudest of her personal growth, she said, “in putting myself out there, reaching out to people, going to events, getting involved and just doing my best.”