McKim, Jiminez honored as RHS Class of 2025 val and sal

Twenty-five students graduated from the Riverside High School Class of 2025 on Sunday, led by valedictorian Maycee McKim and salutatorian Guadalupe Jiminez. 

McKim is the daughter of Shannon and James Morgan and Cannon and Mandy McKim. She has attended Basin schools all throughout her education. Her mother, Shannon Morgan, teaches high school sciences at Riverside. 

“[Morgan’s] was my worst class freshman year. It wasn’t bad, I just definitely thought I could goof off a little bit because it was my mom. That’s where I have an A- from,” McKim said. 

Morgan has also been her best friend, McKim said. “She definitely has been my biggest supporter and just always there for me.”

McKim will graduate high school with a 4.082 weighted GPA, having taken more dual-enrollment college courses than high school courses the first semester of her senior year. She even made it on Northwest College’s Presidential Honor Roll. 

Her passion throughout high school has been FFA, which she is president of this year. Her team will attend Nationals in Indianapolis in October. Outside of school, she shows livestock and barrel races. 

Ag teacher Ashley Spatz has also had a great impact on McKim’s life. 

“She was very influential in my life and very helpful; she helped me believe in myself,” McKim said. 

McKim will attend the University of Wyoming’s pre-pharmacy program in the fall with the goal of ultimately becoming a pharmacist. After shadowing the Greybull pharmacist, the deal was sealed for McKim. 

“I saw how much a pharmacy impacts their community; they’re the most accessible healthcare professionals, and because of FFA, we do a lot of community service and I have a big care about helping my community,” McKim said. “So I thought that would be a really great way to be involved in the community, always give back.”

She thanked her stepfather, James Morgan, and said the pair has grown closer since they met 10 years ago. 

“I’ve never told him that I love him, but I do. He’s helped me a lot,” McKim said. 

The hardest part of leaving home for McKim will be leaving her younger brother, Remington McKim, who is 7. 

“That’s been kind of the scary part about leaving is leaving him,” McKim said. 

Jiminez, daughter of Juan and Maria Jiminez, is another ag expert and a part of the FFA team headed to Nationals. She was recently awarded the Daniels Fund Scholarship and will attend the University of Wyoming to double-major in natural resource conservation, rangeland management or ag business. 

She thanked her family, Spatz, and P.E. teacher Calvin Brown. She also thanked the Foss family, specifically Catherine and Sterling, for helping her with the Daniels Fund Scholarship process. 

At the graduation ceremony on Sunday, the duo thanked all the people that helped them through their education and reflected on their time together as a class. McKim noted that they have won every homecoming float competition since they were freshman. 

“Everyone has their own things. Overall, we are competitive people, but we are a pretty unified class, we support each other,” McKim said.