Supporting Scoliosis Research, One Mile at a Time | Scoliosis Awareness Month | Kayleigh Bennett

Thank you for having us.

Yes, hello.

Um, so let's start off by having you tell us about who you are, maybe what you do for fun, and a little bit about what you'd want us to know about your life.

Yes.

So I'm 16 years old, and I go to Ripley High School in West Virginia.

I am a junior currently, but I'm about to be a senior.

My last week of school is coming up.

So I want to go into the medical field, and it's something I've always been really passionate about, 'cause my mother's a nurse as well.

So I was set on pharmacy for the longest time, but now I'm leaning more towards dermatology, so I don't really know.

But I'm hoping to co-op and work my senior year at the hospital, um, in Ripley.

So I want to go to WVU and possibly cheer.

I am a cheerleader on our varsity, um, cheer team.

And yeah.

Well, I think all of that is awesome.

Um, you know, we get to obviously see and meet a lot of people who are interested in a career in the medical field early in their lives.

I got interested in medicine at the exact same age as you.

Um, and it's a little bit of a tough row, but you seem like somebody who's really committed and will do very well headed down that path.

Thanks.

You've probably had to work really hard, uh, as an athlete to do cheerleading, and I think that, um, dedication and persistence and just hard work will serve you very well in college and medical school.

Yes.

Yeah.

All right.