Surviving High School Katelyn Keese

Katelyn Keese really enjoys working with youth and teaching them to be a part of a team. She is able to show the youth how to most safely learn an exercise or how to strategically make a play. What is most challenging to her is when they have down-time and they want to talk with her about high school. Katelyn Keese kept herself busy and focused in high school by being almost obsessively involved in school sports and other clubs. 

Not all youth are able to be so involved and Katelyn Keese tries to talk them through what their experience is and how they can try to better it. Katelyn Keese’s volunteer advisors constantly praise her tactics and tell her that just the act of listening to the youth and offering suggestions makes a difference. For example, many of the youth she works with attend high schools that are not in the best neighborhoods. These schools have challenges that she never dealt with and the youth struggle to remain positive in what is not always such a positive environment. 

Katelyn Keese reinforces the youth’s involvement in any clubs or programs that may be offered through the school or local community organization. Sometimes she researches additional choices for the students so that she can offer them more educated information. Katelyn Keese also realizes that in the few years she has been out of high school that things have changed even since then. She talks with them about the dangers of social media and constant texting. She coaches them on personal relationships and communication along with healthy physical activity. Katelyn Keese stands by her belief in being on a team that makes all the difference as well to a youth – no matter what walk of life he or she may be coming from.