The Kent Reporter’s female athletes of the week for the week of Jan. 26 is Kentwood High School sophomore Ness Votisek and junior Kiele Vaises, unified basketball.<\/p>\n
What is your favorite subject\/class in school?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ness<\/strong>: American Sign Language Kiele<\/strong>: Math<\/p>\n Name your Mount Rushmore (Top 4) favorite movies:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ness<\/strong>: It, ET, Toy Story, Jumangi Kiele<\/strong>: Nightmare before Christmas, Howls Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Finding Nemo<\/p>\n Who is the person in your life that has helped you succeed the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ness<\/strong>: My Mother Kiele<\/strong>: My mom<\/p>\n You’re on a long road trip, you stop at a gas station. You get one drink and one snack. What are you choosing?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ness<\/strong>: Sprite and spicy Cheetos. Kiele<\/strong>: Water and peanut M & Ms<\/p>\n Describe your pre-game ritual:<\/strong><\/p>\n Ness<\/strong>: I visualize what I am going to do Kiele<\/strong>: Listen to music<\/p>\n Song you currently can’t stop listening to?<\/strong><\/p>\n Ness<\/strong>: When I was your man- Bruno Mars Kiele<\/strong>: Bad Romance- Lady Gaga<\/p>\n From the sidelines<\/strong>: Ness<\/strong>: From her first practice, Ness took on the role of a positive and supportive leader. She goes out of her way to make everyone feel welcomed, included and inspired. We are so glad to have her on Kentwood’s unified team. Kiele<\/strong>: She is one of the hardest workers we know. She comes out to practice with a smile and never complains about what we are doing. She’s positive with the other players and a joy to be around. We’re very excited to have her as a part of the Kentwood Unified team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Votisek and Vaisese are making a difference for the Kentwood unified team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":67864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67862"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}