Meadow Pollack

A princess with a smile like sunshine who adored anything pink, Meadow Pollack is described by friends and family as ambitious but tender, as smart as she was self-assured.

The youngest of three children, Meadow, 18, enjoyed spending time with her boyfriend of three years,

Brandon Schoengrund, and working at his Pompano

Beach motorcycle shop. With her mother, Shara Kaplan, she volunteered at the Humane Society and doted on the family’s two cats and

German shepherd, Jasmine.

A senior at Stoneman

Douglas, Meadow aspired to be an attorney and planned to attend Lynn University in Boca Raton after graduation. “She was my only daughter, you know, and she was my baby,” her father Andrew Pollack told the South Florida Sun Sentinel last year. “I’ll never be able to walk her down the aisle. Meadow was a great kid, an all-around girl, beautiful inside and out.”

Pollack, along with Meadow’s surviving brothers Huck and Hunter, have become school-safety advocates, promoting an eight-point plan through his grassroots organization Americans for C.L.A.S.S. The Pollack family has also organized motorcycle rides in Meadow’s name, and is building Princess Meadow’s Playground with 17 memorial fountains inside Betty Stradlin Park in Coral Springs.

Hunter Pollack cherishes memories of texting workout advice with Meadow (“She was huge into lifting weights,” he recalls) and playing kickball as children at Betty Stradlin Park, their neighborhood haunt.

“We made sure we were the most superior kids on the playground,” Pollack says. “I have pictures of Meadow in my room that serve as a little reminder that if I don’t kick butt, I let my sister down. And I won’t let her down.”

To honor Meadow’s memory, Pollack says the family isn’t looking for donations, but rather solutions to prevent mass shootings. “[Parkland] was the most preventable mass shooting. My dad and I have laid out the facts. It’s about people stepping out and doing the right thing.”