Katelyn Kennedy is a 17 year-old senior at Hennessey High School. She is involved in many activities including varsity softball, varsity basketball, Student Council, National Honor Society and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). What’s her favorite? Basketball, despite the fact she tore her ACL last year, and has spent a whole year rehabilitating her knee. In fact, the process has impacted her life to the point she wants to go to Oklahoma State University after graduation and major in exercise science. She wants to be a physical therapist!
Katelyn has a brother, Jake, a sophomore, at OSU. He plays baseball for the Cowboys and played under Brad Gore at Enid High School. Sounds like a great reason to head to Stillwater.
Katelyn is highly competitive and was named a VYPE Top 100 Basketball Player. She talked about learning some life lessons from sports. She talked about adversity, resilience, patient, leadership and trust in God. Her basketball coach, Brian Richardson, had nothing but praise for Katelyn. She is “one of the top three players’ he has coach in his 23 years of coaching both boys and girls basketball. He talked about Katelyn being “high competitive, genuine, a positive influence for the younger players and a good leader.”
FCA is fairly new at Hennessey High School. Coach Dallas Hunt, boys basketball coach, is the FCA sponsor. The huddle meets every other week during lunch. Coach Hunt talked about getting FCA going again at Hennessey. ***
