Trio of top students honored by Lovell High School

Three of Lovell High School’s graduating seniors will be honored on Monday, May 19, during the 2025 commencement ceremony, school officials announced.

Jarrett Allen is the valedictorian and completed his high school education with a 4.0 grade point average and scored a perfect 36 on the ACT.

Salutatorian was earned by Davin Crosby, who also finished with a 4.0 GPA and had an ACT score of 33.

Based on a vote by members of the Class of 2025, Braxton Felkins was selected as this year’s honor student and will be joining Allen and Crosby in addressing the graduates at the ceremony.

With his high scores, Allen, the son of Josey and Jill Allen, will be attending the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the fall of 2027 on a full financial aid scholarship, and he also received a $250 scholarship from the Lovell Bulldog Booster Club. He plans to study mechanical engineering and see what opportunities present themselves for employment.

During high school, Allen was active in the LHS band, National Honor Society, SkillsUSA, track, football, basketball, Boys State and Wyoming Academic Challenge, was selected as an all-state choir member all four years and served as the senior class president on the student council.

He credited his dad for being instrumental in his educational success, noting that he “helped me to learn to love learning.” He also recognized that many other people in his life, even ones that he met briefly, inspired him to say to himself, “I want to be like that.”

Asked what he will be doing in 10 years, Allen stated, “I will have my degree and a job that I enjoy, preferably in Wyoming where I have lived my whole life and love it, and maybe starting a family.”

DAVIN CROSBY

Davin Crosby, the son of Nicc and Aimee Crosby, plans to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Santiago, Chile, before attending the University of Wyoming to pursue majoring in elementary education. 

He received the GEAR UP scholarship, GEAR UP UW Institutional scholarship, $500 Lovell Bulldog Booster Club scholarship and the University of Wyoming Trustees scholarship, all to go toward his continuing education.

During his LHS career, Crosby participated in football, basketball, choir, music performance, National Honor Society and Wyoming Academic Challenge and will still be representing the school at the 2025 Shrine Bowl this summer.

Crosby noted that all the high school teachers and staff made his time at Lovell High School enjoyable. He specifically mentioned his flex teacher Amanda Walker with her help, his dad with math, Josey Allen with science and both Caleb and Josh Sanders as being key inspirations from the school.

Outside of school, he considers his friends to be significant motivators for success. 

“I have also really loved all of the little guys that come to all of our football and basketball games and other events,” he said. “When they would come down on the field or court after our games and talk to me, they are really what has motivated me to go into elementary education.”

In 10 years, Crosby wants to be living in Wyoming, teaching third or fourth grade, married, sitting on his deck that he made himself and watching the sunset with a kid or two of his own.

BRAXTON FELKINS

The son of Ryan and Amber Felkins, Braxton Felkins plans to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Ghana Accra North Mission. Upon returning from the two-year mission, he plans to attend BYU-Idaho to study financial economics.

He has received the following scholarships: Big Horn Rural Electric Association, BYU-I Merit, GEAR UP and $250 from the Lovell Bulldog Booster Club.

At Lovell High School, Felkins was a member of the football, basketball and track teams, music performance, National Honor Society and Wyoming Academic Challenge, and he will also represent the Bulldogs at the 2025 Shrine Bowl this summer.

He said Nicc Crosby has been very helpful to him with math because it was a subject he struggled with until Crosby helped him understand it and push through it. Josh Sanders was another teacher that sparked his interest in investing, and he hopes to be a financial advisor someday.

He credits his parents for always pushing him to do his best, especially his dad for always setting a good example for him to follow. For the future, he thinks he will be working, married and possibly have a child in 10 years.