Swapping heels for cleats, homecoming queen equally at home on dance floor and the gridiron

OCEAN SPRINGS, MS – Last Friday, according to WVTM 13, Foster kicked the overtime extra point that won the game.  It wasn’t any game.  It was homecoming.  And Foster isn’t just any player.  She is also the homecoming queen.

“It is such an honor to be voted on by my classmates, but it was so fun to win the game and have my teammates really proud of me,” she said.

Of the Greyhounds 13 points Kaylee Foster scored seven of them.  She had two field goals in regulation and clinched the contest against George County by coming through with the extra point.

When asked which made her more anxious, the possibility of being homecoming queen or the possibility of winning the game, she told The Mississippi Press, “I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to be homecoming queen, but I was pretty sure I was going to make that kick.”

Initially a soccer player Foster was convinced to take up placekicking by a coach.

“I really didn’t take a lot of convincing,” she said. “I thought that would be really cool, I was thinking I would love to do that.”

To help the transition she went to Google, found a video by a kicker from University of Florida and watched.

“OK, I think I can do it,” she told her mom, Rendy Foster.

And so, she has.