GRAND LEDGE, Mich. (WLNS) — A math trainer is going through her greatest problem but, and it’s not making ready her college students for the SATs.
Inside the category, Katie Westen is like every other highschool AP pre-calculus trainer, however exterior the classroom, Westen is making ready for a once-in-a-lifetime alternative: throwing a soccer right into a goal from 15 yards in entrance of hundreds of followers at Spartan Stadium for $1 million.
Katie Westen (WLNS)
“I had been nominated and selected for the Eckrich Meet Teacher of the Year,” said Westen. “And that meant that I had the opportunity on Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Michigan-Michigan State game to throw for a million.”
Westen says she will get two tries; the primary throw is from 15 yards. If she hits her goal, she takes residence $1 million, and the cash she wins can be used in direction of classroom assets. If she misses, she has an opportunity to strive once more for a decrease prize.
Westen practising. (WLNS)
“We would bump as much as 10 yards. That throw can be for $10,000,” stated Westen.
She says she’s been practising her throwing abilities for some time and says if she have been to win one million {dollars}, she’d share the wealth together with her colleagues.
As Westen slowly adjusts to her throwing abilities, she’s grown fairly a fan membership, and she or he’s additionally gotten some assist from her “coaches.”
eleventh grader Logan Carir is one in every of Westen’s scholar coaches, educating her the ropes and making ready her for recreation day.
Logan Carir (left) and Katie Westen (proper).
“I normally stay after class, and I show her, like, how to hold the ball and the motions of throwing a football,” said Carir. “Like loading your back leg and making sure everything’s fluid and smooth.”
Carir is a Michigan fan, however that doesn’t cease him from educating his math trainer the fundamentals.
“I hold up the net, and she throws the football to it,” said Carir. “And I normally correct her.”
Katie Westen and her college students. (WLNS)
A Spartan by way of and thru, Westen says, she’s blown away by the assist she’s obtained from her Grand Ledge household.
“Students who I don’t even have in class are coming up and wishing me luck,” said Westen. “And I am going to inform you, this expertise has, I imply, it has simply blown that concept away. It’s so superb.”
