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Kayley Piatz honored
October 13, 2013
Kayley Piatz
Kayley Piatz, a senior at Bonners Ferry High School, is the student of the month selected by Upsilon Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma Women Educators International.

Kayley, an outgoing and friendly young woman, likes to work and shows this by excelling in her classes, working at Subway after school, and working at Three Mile on weekends. In addition to attending classes in the morning, she takes one class, Sports Entertainment Marketing, on line.

Kayley has especially enjoyed playing basketball but will be unable to participate this year because of a torn ACL for which she receives physical therapy. In order to keep up her conditioning she does weight training three days a week.

She also enjoys singing and has been in choir for three years. Her favorite classes are government and leadership class in which she helps organize the assemblies and homecoming activities.

Her church and church activities are very important to Kayley. She is active in youth group activities and spent two weeks in the Dominican Republic, where she helped clean up a village and participated in youth ministry meetings and a festival gathering. That experience gave her an appreciation for her home country and the everyday things that are taken for granted here.

Experiencing another culture has helped form her future goal of attending Calvary Chapel Bible College in California to study Inter Culture Studies and using that training to do mission work in other countries. As her senior project she wants to shadow the youth leader at her church.

Outside of school and her church, Kayley enjoys “rock crawling” with her dad in the specially built truck used for that activity. She also enjoys mud
bogging and smiles when she says getting muddy is fun.

Kayley’s parents are Jeff and Tia Avery who have blended a family of seven children and have been a major influence on her. She also credits the Jeff Foster family for shaping the person that she is.
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