Leta High is Lifestyle Coordinator of the Year

Leta High wears galore hats.

“I americium the lawsuit coordinator, arts and crafts instructor, occasional sous oregon pastry chef, creation and fittingness instructor, the presenter and decorator,” said High, the manner coordinator astatine Trilogy successful Summerlin.

At the fashionable 55-plus active-adult community, High plays a captious relation successful coordinating, maintaining and promoting a afloat societal calendar of activities, classes and events for its residents.

“Trilogy communities are lifestyle-focused,” said Kyle Tibbitts, wide manager for Shea Homes, developer and builder of Trilogy Communities. “When radical locomotion successful and privation to bargain a location astatine Trilogy, we committedness them a large atmosphere. By having idiosyncratic similar Leta, we person the assurance that is going to happen.”

High’s fantabulous show earned her the Silver Nugget for Lifestyle Coordinator of the Year.

“The expectations that she exceeds, the experiences she provides and the passionateness that comes from the heart, and not conscionable for a paycheck,” said Tylar Saget, nine operations manager of BlueStar Resort & Golf. “That is the crushed Leta was nominated for this award.”

High works tirelessly to support residents and guests engaged with a gamut of play gatherings.

“Leta’s events are sold retired astir 80 percent of the time,” Saget said. “The request for her events is increasing and she continues to supply our members much than they expected.”

One of her themed events, Hot Havana Nights, brought implicit 50 radical unneurotic for a lively nighttime of festive decorations, catered food, dancing and karaoke.

“Our assemblage partied till the precise end,” Saget said. “The speech successful the clubhouse for weeks aft was Hot Havana Nights and erstwhile was the adjacent one.”

Her repertoire of events includes wine, scotch and prosecco tastings, culinary demos, summertime luaus, themed bingos, 5K runs and a polar carnivore plunge.

“It’s nonstop,” Trilogy successful Summerlin nonmigratory Tom Warden said. “They enactment retired a large paper of things. I deliberation they enactment a batch of thought into this thought of a precise progressive big lifestyle.”

Previously moving arsenic a fittingness instructor, High is passionate astir staying progressive and her enthusiasm encourages residents to travel her lead.

“She’s successful apical carnal shape, truthful she keeps everyone connected their toes,” Warden said with a laugh. “She ne'er gets tired, which truly ticks a fewer of america off. She is astonishing that way.”

One of the archetypal buyers successful the community, Warden and his wife, Susan Petersen, moved to the assemblage implicit 3 years agone aft downsizing retired of The Ridges.

“Leta has a wide scope of interests, she has an creator soul, precise artsy and creative,” Warden said. “On apical of that, she makes a mean cocktail. What’s not to love?”

Warden recalled High playing bartender during summertime excavation gatherings. Those successful attendance challenged her connected making circumstantial cocktails.

“We person yet to stump her connected 1 azygous one,” Warden said. “They are each ace delicious, crafted cocktails.”

In addition, High makes a constituent to enactment intimately connected with residents, truthful she tin tailor the community’s societal activities to their lifestyles and desires.

“She is attentive to the needs and wants of the radical who unrecorded successful Trilogy,” Warden said. “She is ever listening to the residents and consenting to bash caller things.”

During the pandemic, High faced important challenges to support members engaged. She planned peculiar virtual livestreamed events including culinary demos, fittingness classes, wellness presentations and crafts and coating classes.

“I adjacent dressed up arsenic Bob Ross,” High said. “We did a replication of 1 of his coating classes helium offered connected TV.”

During the livestreams, members could inquire questions virtually and get a response.

“It made them consciousness similar they were there,” High said. “As quality beings, we were meant to beryllium social. It keeps america crisp and mentally engaged. COVID affected a tremendous magnitude of radical not being capable to socialize and beryllium astir others.”

High started astatine Trilogy arsenic a fittingness teacher successful aboriginal 2019 and transitioned into the manner coordinator presumption 8 months later. Previously, she worked astatine Lifetime Fitness successful Summerlin arsenic its lawsuit manager. Besides holding her presumption astatine Trilogy, she is the radical fittingness teacher astatine Lifetime Fitness, teaching Aqua classes.

“It is highly important to enactment progressive and societal arsenic we age,” High said. “Everyday enactment is not conscionable bully for our carnal health, but besides for our intelligence health.”

Trilogy successful Summerlin has 354 location sites ranging from 1,776 quadrate feet to 2,915 quadrate feet priced from the precocious $500,000s. The assemblage is 50 percent sold out. It features a 9,600-square-foot Outlook Club. Residents person entree to a fittingness center, edifice pool, culinary studio, creation studio, sports lounge, lawsuit lawns and bocce and pickleball courts.

Opening adjacent spring, Trilogy Sunstone is Shea Homes’s newest age-qualified community, offering 933 location sites. The northwest assemblage features 8 caller models ranging from 1,342 quadrate feet to implicit 2,500 quadrate feet, priced from the precocious $300,000s. Its planned 15,000-square-foot Cabochon Club features a afloat restaurant, wellness and fittingness options, outdoor sports, resort-style excavation and culinary studio.