Employee Spotlight: Kelsey Vining

Our team members at Colonial Family Practice are our pride and joy! We realize that our work is a reflection of who we are as individuals, and our success is a direct result of all the different personalities, passions and talents that our employees bring to the table. Each week you’ll have a chance to meet the people who make Colonial such a success featured in our Employee Spotlight segment.

This week we get to know Kelsey Vining.

What do you do at Colonial Family Practice?
I work with  Dr. Lowder's Pod, and sometimes with Occupational Health or the Allergy Clinic

What is your favorite sport, and do you play or just watch?
I absolutely love football! Both college and NFL...Go Gamecocks!

What was your favorite subject in school?
Science! I was a science nerd, I took many different sciences in school such as; earth and space, physics, anatomy and physiology and many others.

What is the first thing you notice about people?
I always notice smiles.

When you were 6 years old what did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be a princess of course!

Where do you live and have you always lived there?
I currently live in Sumter. My family and I moved here almost 7 years ago from Japan. We moved around a lot because my dad was in the air force.

If you could have any super power what would it be and why?
I would want to have mind reading powers, because people never really tell you whats on their minds, and if I could read minds then I would always know...good or bad:)

Who do you most admire and why?
I most admire my mom, shes a very strong, hardworking, and loving woman, and I hope that I can one day be just like her.

What is one food you will not eat?
Seafood! yuck...absolutely nothing seafood!

What is the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
Squid!!! Raw squid...some friends and I thought it would be a great idea to make a bet on who wouldn't eat it..we all bet each other, we all ate that nasty stuff and only one of us came out of it with the $20.00. Not a good idea.

List a few fun facts about you:
1. I love to dance.
2. My family has traveled a lot since my dad was military..we actually moved here from Okinawa, Japan.
3. I want to go back to school and finish my bachelors degree and one day do Occupational Therapy, to work with special needs children.