Kimberly Layne Miss Idaho Teen USA

Kim is a senior this year at Skyview High School in Nampa, Idaho, where she enjoys her family, friends, and school, and all that there is to offer. She is the National Honor Society president and member of Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) and Idaho Drug Free Youth. In the summer of 2010, Kim traveled to Orlando, Florida, with a HOSA team and competed in the HOSA Bowl, a game show competition designed to test a wide array of knowledge over health care in general. Nationally, they placed 6th in the country and was one of the top ranking Idaho teams ever in that event. Aside from clubs, Kim is an athlete in track and field and competes in the 400 meter, triple jump, and long jump, and has placed second in the state in 2010 for the triple jump. Also, she takes advantage of concurrent enrollment programs through colleges and AP classes, and this year alone is studying Literature, Calculus, Organic Chemistry, and Physics while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. Kim also enjoys volunteering in her community at the Salvation Army and the Canyon County Animal Shelter throughout the school months. On summer mornings, you'll most likely find her tutoring during the summer school program at the middle school she attended several years ago. In her free time, she likes to kick it and hang out with her best friends, adventure out to new places to eat, workout, and attend her school's sports events. A couple talents that Kim has been working on are her drawing abilities and guitar playing.

Coming from a diverse background, Kim is Filipino and Irish and is a brunette with green-hazel eyes. She loves learning about her unique and different backgrounds and uses her diverse culture as a springboard for encouraging ethnic kindness and diversity for those around her. Having travelled to the Philippines a couple times before and expectantly again next summer, she hopes to someday visit Ireland, to meet her third and forth cousins, and to enhance her understanding of the world around her.

Some of the most important figures in Kim's life are her parents who have instilled within her a blunt determination to face any adversity in life, and the war veterans who have sacrificed their homes, families, and security, all so that we can maintain our own. Her favorite food can be generalized into all forms of cereal and chicken penne, while her favorite desert is ice cream and frozen yogurt. Kim has one Manx cat, two dogs: a Cairn terrier, and a Catahoula leopard dog, as well as a hamster and several fish. One aspiration that Kim has on her to-do list is to travel as much of the world as possible on a boat and visit exotic places all around the globe. For now though, she plans on enjoying her last year of high school and working on being the best role model that she possibly can for her peers. She wants to encourage them to be take pride in their school work and strive for academic excellence, and to always strive to be the best that they can possibly be with whatever they're passionate about.

After high school, Kim will continue with her education at a university most likely on the west coast. With a major in animal science or engineering, she hopes to later attend a school of veterinary medicine so that she can combine her love of animals, science, and medicine into a rewarding career benefiting not only animals but humans and society as well.