Remembering Kerry Welsh:
If there is one thing that brings people together, even in these contentious times, it’s the love we share for the children of America.
Sadly, this Sunday will mark the one-year anniversary of the death of 18-year old Kerry Welsh.
Welsh was the 2020 Glendora High School Girls Scholar Athlete of the Year, who played soccer for the Tartans.
Welsh earned a scholarship and was attending Loyola Marymount University after producing a 4.6 weighted GPA at GHS.
During her freshman year, she also competed for the Tartans swim team.
Back on May 29th of 2021, Welsh had driven to West Covina to pick up her little sister from a birthday party when she was struck and killed by a drunk driver.
Glendora High School, the community, and people throughout the San Gabriel Valley, reached out to show their love for the Welsh family, including her parents Albert & Chiarra, and sister, Ariana Welsh.
Kerry’s legacy will last far after we’re all gone, and it all starts this Monday.
“The Kerry Welsh Memorial Hike” will take place this Monday at 8 am.
The Welsh family asks those who wish to take part to meet at their house (649 N. Buckboard Lane in Glendora), at which point everyone will hike the Colby Dalton Trail.
After the hike, breakfast will be served at GHS from 10 a.m. to Noon.
Any donations will be set aside to aide student-athletes who need financial assistance in her name.
On June 2, the Welsh’s will be presenting Kerry’s Memorial Scholarship at the GHS Event Center.
We reached her former soccer coach at Glendora, Steve Jimenez, who encourages Tartans past, present and future to come out on Monday to honor a student-athlete that represented the school in the best way possible.
“I hope those who knew Kerry and even those who didn’t, come out and honor a girl that was one of the best human beings that most of us have ever met,” he said. “She was bright, loving, and could light up a room just by her smile. She always wanted to lift people up, especially after losses, and that included her coaches. Kerry was such a beautiful person and you couldn’t help but fall in love with her just by meeting her. She was so far ahead of her time when it came to her maturity, and she loved ALL people, which seems to be a rarity these days.”
On a personal note, having been a high school and local college writer since 2000, Kerry Welsh is literally the only student-athlete that has ever told me that she was ‘excited to go to school every day, because I knew I was going to learn something new.’
The love that she shared for her parents, sister, boyfriend, friends, teammates, coaches and teachers shined so brightly in our interview for her 2020 Girls Scholar Athlete of the Year story.
And that photo of her father on one knee, handing Kerry flowers on senior day, never fails to evoke chills or tears from this writer.
May God continue to bless Kerry and her beautiful family.
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