Anonymous ID: 3d0984 Nov. 7, 2025, 8:52 a.m. No.23825005   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Within the first two weeks following her surgery, Shauni Kerkhoff said she hit rock bottom. The 5-foot-7-inch Westerville, Ohio native, who said she can’t go a day without exercising, fell into a depression due to her lack of mobility.

 

“She was really lost for a while,” Patti Kerkhoff said. “And the hardest thing as a parent is just seeing her like that.”

 

But then, she discovered a positive side.

 

As a freshman, Shauni Kerkhoff “fell in love” with Temple’s ProRanger Program, a partnership between the National Park Service and Temple, which trains and employs law enforcement park rangers.

 

A few weeks after her injury, ProRanger returned, and with a recommendation to the program’s director from Justin Miller, Senior Director of the Resnick Center for Student-Athletes, Shauni Kerkhoff was offered an accelerated track for the program, which strictly accepts sophomores and below.

 

“This is going to sound so demented when I say this, but I’m grateful that I broke my leg,” Shauni Kerkhoff said. “Because had I not, I wouldn’t have pursued my dream job.”

 

https://temple-news.com/with-new-outlook-kerkhoff-grateful-for-broken-leg/