Atlanta Dream Ketia Swanier Relates To Military Kids
Ketia4Kidz
April is designated the “Month of the Military Child” but for one Atlanta Dream basketball player, it’s part of an organization she founded.
WABE’s Rose Scott has the story of Ketia Swanier.
Ketia Swanier says she never grew tired of moving around while her parents where in the military.
“I didn’t it was something I born and raised into so I was used to getting up and moving around” says Swanier.
Swaniner’s parents spent a combined 45 years in the military.
She’s lived on several army bases including Germany.
The newly acquired guard for the Atlanta Dream says she identifies with the life of a military kid.
“Even though I was in a single parent home here and there, parents being deployed on back to back occasions, my dad being deployed in Iraq, coming back home with a disorder having PTSD, it’s just a lot these kids go through”
Swanier started a foundation called Ketia4Kidz.
The organization gives scholarships and Swanier makes herself available as a motivational speaker.
She hopes the kids will now root for the Atlanta Dream.
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