KATIE PALMER
You might need to click the picture to see her, but this is definitely the best representative picture of Katie. There are other more close-up pictures of her on my previous posts.
So, you know those new Mormon advertisements where people list various things about themselves and then conclude with "...and I'm a Mormon"? Well, we've decided that Katie would make a perfect candidate for one of those ads. It would best be summed up like this: "My name is Katie Palmer; I'm a civil engineer, I do volunteer humanitarian work in Belize, I'm an Olympic athlete... and I'm a Mormon." Doesn't that just sound amazing? That's simply the word we constantly use to describe Katie around here!
Katie is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada and grew up mostly around Las Vegas. She runs track for BYU and is currently preparing for the qualifying rounds to run for Team Canada in the 2012 Olympics in London next year and has a pretty good chance of making it! So, she runs at least 5 miles every morning at a track in San Ignacio. Since it's kind of a sketchy part of town, one of the men on the team usually goes with her to help defend her from bad guys if needed. That's when I took the picture above.
Besides being a fantastic athlete, Katie is also a brilliant student, graduating soon from BYU with a degree in civil engineering. She drew up the schematics for the chicken coop we built just by watching a YouTube video about chicken coops and is heading up some other engineering projects currently that you'll probably hear about on this blog in the near future.
YEAH KATIE!! SHE'S AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteVery impressive! :)
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