Taylor Kindred

Parents: Billie and Shannon Kindred

GPA: 3.86

Class rank: 1 of 10

Co-curricular activities: Basketball, softball, volleyball, show choir, speech, DARE Role Models, class officers, student council, National Honor Society, musicals, and plays.

Community activities: Vacation bible school, KHS food drive, volunteer at Maplewood Manor Nursing home, After Prom Breakfast, Music Booster Breakfast, highway cleanup, Church harvest dinner, KHS blood drive, Show choir cookie walk, KHS prom.

Future plans and goals: I plan to attend the University of Iowa in the fall to pursue the six-year program in Pharmacy and become a Pharmacy Manager someday.

How will your high school experiences help you in the coming years? High school has helped me to become a very outgoing and social person, this will help me in the future as I enter the college and work world, so I can make new friends and meet people.

Fondest memory of high school: My favorite memory is being able to play the sports I love with my best friends and being able to enjoy all the victories and loses as well with the people I am most fond of.

Which teachers have had the biggest impact on you and why? My English teacher Mrs. Conrad taught me the importance of being responsible and doing your school work to the best of my ability.

Who is your role model and how did they influence you? My role model is my mom. My mom has been through so much in her life and has made the absolute best out of all of it.

What is special about your high school? Keota is special because we are such a small community that we have the opportunity to be involved in everything we want as extracurricular activities. We also have the opportunity to get one-on-one help from our teachers and staff because our school is so small.

If you go back to when you were a freshman, what advice would you give yourself? I would remind myself to make the most of anything and everything in your time in high school.