Meet Kelly.  She’s sweet, fun, beautiful – and also a national and world champion.  But seriously, unless you heard from someone else, you would never know because she is also incredibly humble.  Kelly’s focus is on others – from training clients, to coaching triathletes, to inspiring people by her amazing accomplishments – this girl loves to love on people.

I met Kelly, and her identical twin Meghan, during my freshman year at Davidson College.  They were tennis stars in doubles and singles.  Junior year Meghan went abroad and Kelly stayed at Davidson and decided to pick up track – you know, just to condition for tennis season.  Well, she led Davidson to the State Championships and later received a scholarship to continue her track – amazingness in graduate school at Duke.

In the past couple of years, Kelly began to compete in Duathlons and Triathlons.  She qualified for worlds in her first race of each.  Competing in the World Championship Duathlon Kelly crossed the finish line and looked up to realize she was 1^st in her age group…World Champion.  At the World Championship race in Kona, Hawaii, Kelly placed in the top five, grabbing the attention of several sponsors who wanted her to go pro this year.  Because she was new in the sport, Kelly decided to take this year to train and learn more – but she will be going pro in the upcoming season.  Thus, she needed some professional photos to go on her current blog and future website.

We decided that it was important to capture Kelly in her comfort zone – hair pulled back, sport’s bra, athletic shorts, running shoes…but also, to get some of this beautiful girl all done up.

Enjoy!

And, if you want to check out more on my friend you can go to the following places:

1-    Kelly’s Blog

2-    Awesome Testimonial about her Accomplishments

3-    A Video of her training her Clients

4-   An article – that summarizes her to a t.

(PS…there’s a really cool photo of Kelly walking away which was supposed to be the last photo -but I’m out of town and do not have it here…SO – you will see it when I get home.  Love you Kel!

The incredibly talented Angelique of Salty Sisters also happens to be one of Stacey’s bridemaids – which made it perfect when she decided to host a shower for her friend.  Angelique converted her backyard into what felt like the mad hatter’s tea party – it was really creative and pretty… and such a fun way to celebrate Stacey’s last few weeks as a single lady!

If you need some creative assistance to host a party – I could not more highly recommend Salty Sisters for your needs!