A key part of Lincoln’s upcoming girls basketball season, Cougars junior Katie Martin will be doing the good kind of traveling in the spring. Martin will visit Haiti on a 10-day mission trip through Horizons Church in April. “I’m very excited. It’s going to be nice to see the people that we’re helping out and the difference that we’re making,” Martin said. “My friend Gracen McDonald, she goes to Jewel City Church. (Horizons Church youth pastor) Don Skidmore came to their church and talked to them about it. And she mentioned it to me. She knew that, whenever I graduate, that’s kind of the stuff I want to go into. I want to do Peace Corps. So this will give me an experience to see if that’s something that I really want to do. Martin has been able to hone in on this specific goal recently. “I always knew that I wanted to do international affairs, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do in it,” Martin said. “Katie is an extremely nice young lady. She’s been with us now for three years and I’m looking forward to having a big year from her,” Lincoln coach Rob Hawkins said. “I’ve never had any trouble with her. She’s a good student and a good basketball player.” It won’t be Martin’s first trip abroad; she went to Ghana as a seventh grader. “I collected donations and we donated to schools over there and orphanages,” Martin said. “It was definitely Third World. You saw how much other people are struggling in the world and you think about your own life. Just little things that we complain about, day-to-day, and it’s like, ‘Why am I complaining about this when they don’t know where their meals are going to come from?’” Now older, Martin expects to have a different perspective on this trip