Jimmy Counihan is running for student body president at school. While Jimmy is already extremely active, holding many titles around school and soon hoping to become more involved, he still feels he can do more to fix this community.

“I am a silver star escort for Callie Bedrich, a Bowie Yell leader, a Junior Debate Captain, an Art Club president, founder and president of Austin’s first Junior Statesmen of America, an executive board member on the District Advisory Committee, a Campus Advisory Committee representative, a class officer, a student Council Vice President, a Student Leader at my church, I’m in the Student Leadership Class at Bowie, and I’m a Regional UIL competitor for Debate, Spelling, and Ready Writing,” Jimmy Counihan said.

Over the years, Counihan has always been a friend to all and destined to govern, always wanting to make a difference.

“Ever since I have known Jimmy, he always was trying his best to help everyone around him and he still does today” Zachary Houdek said.

Not only students have recognized Couihan’s behavior around school, teachers and faculty have taken notice to how Counihan acts around the community.

“Jimmy treats everyone with respect and keeps it light. I do not think there has been a day this year where he has not made me laugh. The number of times i have shook my head while saying “oh, jimmy” are numerous. He relates well to faculty and peers alike. I really with I had students with the unique, outgoing, witty personality that he has. He really is one of the most interesting people I have ever met, and that is saying quite a bit,” Teacher, Brian Alford said.

Counihan has also grown over his years at Bowie, he has been able to keep track of his ideas and plans.

“Jimmy has been in my classes for 3 years. I first met him at a District Advisory Council meeting. (he is a student representative). Over the past three years, Jimmy has become much more responsible and has become much better at expressing himself,” Alford said.

Counihan has created things such as Snapchat filters at school to bring smiles during a hard day of work.

“I first got the idea of making a filter because I was with friends and laughing about how iconic it would be if someone made a snapchat filter over Bowie that lasted for an hour. To us it seemed like a fun unexpected thing that would make people laugh,” Counihan said.

Counihan puts himself out there with creativity, he also honors the students and faculty, earning their respect.

“Jimmy is jimmy. He is pretty much unclassifiable. He has a very unique personality, and a VERY unique sense of style. He can adapt to just about any situation, and still throw in that Jimmy flair and keep it interesting. He has the respect of fellow students and the staff at Bowie. He is also well liked on the Texas Debate circuit. He definitely keeps it interesting,” Alford said.

Counihan tries to see everything from everyone’s point of view to completely understand all parts of the issue.

“Jimmy is unique. LOL. He does excellent work, but his casual relationship with deadlines has caused me stress. But he always gets it done….eventually. The work is almost always pretty good. Jimmy is VERY good at looking at different aspects of a situation/assignment,” Alford said.

Counihan also put in overtime at school to fix and work on improving things at around school. He is involved in so many time consuming organizations.

“Before I ran for president Mr. E told me I have the same 24 hour long day as everyone else and I told him that it depends on how you use those hours that matters. He asked how long I sleep, to which I said, none,” Counihan said.

Counihan is trying to reach  students individually to show he cares about each student at Bowie High School.

“I’ve made a video announcing my candidacy, and now I’m meeting with student individually to let them know I have their best interest at heart,” Counihan said.

Counihan wants to improve this community by inspiring  others and continuing to bring fresh ideas for his upcoming plans. With many ties with the Bowie community Counihan believes that he can really make a difference at Bowie because of these ties.

“I decided to run for president because I thought Bowie needed someone that not only had roots in the community but wanted to better the relationships in community. I’ve served as a District Advisory Committee member, a Campus Advisory Committee member and my Mom is the principal of Baranoff elementary.” said Counihan. “I knew that holding these positions and several others I’d be able to work with different organizations and really make a more profound impact because I’ve come to know the people that make decisions, I’ve come to learn the processes in place, and I’ve come to love our campus.”

There are many people are many people who believe that Counihan could make a real difference here at Bowie and hope that he becomes president.

“Jimmy has a drive to make Bowie much better than it is. He is extremely involved in many aspects of AISD (CAC, DAC) . He was one of the few students that went to the parent/student meeting with Mr Robinson and asked several questions. He has many ideas on ways to improve things at Bowie,” Alford said.