KAY RAWLINS
FOUNDER & SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS, ORLANDO CITY SOCCER CLUB, ORLANDO
Orlando City and Orlando Pride are Central Florida’s professional men’s and women’s soccer teams. The teams have a downtown stadium and practice facilities in Seminole and Osceola counties, plus an academy. The organization has a foundation that focuses on health and wellness, building mini pitches, providing free soccer programs and installing community gardens. It employs around 140 people, not counting the players. Rawlins is a founder of the club.
| EDUCATION | Radbrook College, United Kingdom (early childhood education/business management) |
| NEW HOBBY | A friend introduced me to a website where you can write your life story and add photos, eventually turning it into a book. My dad wrote his story for us a few years ago and we loved reading it and found out things we never knew about our parents so I’m starting mine now as I am a recent member of the grandparent club! |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I have stayed overnight in a longhouse in the Borneo jungle with the Izan tribe, who used to be headhunters! When they knew I was with a football/soccer team, they got very excited and went off to fetch a wooden trophy they had won playing a team up river! Soccer is truly a global sport! |
| READING | Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo; A Promised Land, Barack Obama |