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SHP Royalty
CSD’s Corey Cathey makes homecoming court
Corey Cathey is a big college football fan. “I love game days and everything the football season brings,” she says. “I cheered my freshman year of college and my favorite memory was cheering at all of the homecoming festivities.” Ever since, Corey, a senior communication science and disorders major, has participated in a variety of homecoming activities. This year she decided to reach higher and aimed for a spot on the Mizzou homecoming court.
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Photo by Cheri Ghan
Corey Cathey talks with Ben Cardetti in the Robert G. Combs Language Preschool where Cathey is a student clinician.
After applying she made the cuts to 35 then 15 women vying for five spots. Then, at 5:30 a.m. on September 30 she got not one, but six calls on her cell phone telling her she had made the Royalty Top 10! After a surprise breakfast the five women and five men who will stand at the 50-yeard line of the October 24 Mizzou-Texas Homecoming game were taken to gaze out of the Memorial Stadium press box high above Faurot Field where two of them will reign as King and Queen.
Corey hopes through the homecoming activities she can shine a light on the School of Health Professions (SHP) and the career of speech-language pathology. She says serving on the homecoming court is her way of honoring the traditions of the University she loves. “Mizzou is not just a University full of educators, but a community full of family. It just so happens I get an amazing education along the way,” she says. “I look forward to coming back as an alumna and giving back to Mizzou all that it has given me.”
Corey Cathey is not the first School of Health Professions student to be on a homecoming court. See if you can list others and send them to us. All submissions will be entered into a drawing for an SHP prize! Send your list to haydenrm@health.missouri.edu or mail to Rose Hayden, 517 Lewis Hall, Columbia, Mo. 65211
Students can vote for the 2009 Homecoming King and Queen at vote.missouri.edu.
—Cheri Ghan
Page last updated on: October 16, 2009
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