Marian Helped Guide Katelyn Gochenour to Empower Herself and Others
By Mia Mixan
Katelyn Gochenour started her journey at Marian with an hour long drive to school from Logan, Iowa. Every day for four years, she drove two hours round-trip just to go to school. By the end of her senior year in 2016 she sacrcificed a minimum of 1,140 hours in a car for a beautiful place called Marian. Many people would wonder why in the world is any school worth that sacrifice. If you travelled today to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and asked Gochenour what is the most important thing she learned from Marian she would simply say, “As an individual I have more resiliency because of Marian.”
Gochenour knows that if she would not have woken up an hour early every day of high school, she would not be the person she is today. She believes that because she made the sacrifice to go to Marian, she was able to easily push herself to be persistent in becoming a better student and also a better person. If Gochenour took the easy route and stayed in her small town of 1,500 people for school, she believes she would not be able to be the successful student athlete she is at today at Duke University without Marian’s guidance.
Gochenour, like so many of her classmates, walked into Marian and was inspired daily by teachers and staff who taught her kindness and work ethic. …show more content…
In her junior year of high school she set the javelin record for the New Balance National Championships and claimed her spot on the US World Youth javelin team. Then again in her senior year, she made the US Junior Youth team. At the same time, Gochenour was excelling in her schoolwork at Marian and was inducted into four different societies: National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National Math Honor Society and National Science Honor
By Mia Mixan
Katelyn Gochenour started her journey at Marian with an hour long drive to school from Logan, Iowa. Every day for four years, she drove two hours round-trip just to go to school. By the end of her senior year in 2016 she sacrcificed a minimum of 1,140 hours in a car for a beautiful place called Marian. Many people would wonder why in the world is any school worth that sacrifice. If you travelled today to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and asked Gochenour what is the most important thing she learned from Marian she would simply say, “As an individual I have more resiliency because of Marian.”
Gochenour knows that if she would not have woken up an hour early every day of high school, she would not be the person she is today. She believes that because she made the sacrifice to go to Marian, she was able to easily push herself to be persistent in becoming a better student and also a better person. If Gochenour took the easy route and stayed in her small town of 1,500 people for school, she believes she would not be able to be the successful student athlete she is at today at Duke University without Marian’s guidance.
Gochenour, like so many of her classmates, walked into Marian and was inspired daily by teachers and staff who taught her kindness and work ethic. …show more content…
In her junior year of high school she set the javelin record for the New Balance National Championships and claimed her spot on the US World Youth javelin team. Then again in her senior year, she made the US Junior Youth team. At the same time, Gochenour was excelling in her schoolwork at Marian and was inducted into four different societies: National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, National Math Honor Society and National Science Honor