SALENK, Kendall

[Stern]

KENDALL-SALENK
<<Played by Stern>>

Shine a light through an open door

Full Name>>Kendall Salenk
Nicknames>>N/A
Age>> Date of Birth; 39
Staff or Student>> Cross Country Instructor
House>> Brown Ribbon
Gender>> Female
Sexuality>> Heterosexual
Face Claim>> Sophie Martindale

Turn away 'cause I need you more

Personality>> Kendall is very forward, and she isn't above correcting anyone if they are doing something wrong, no matter who it is. She doesn't give as much credit to titles as she used to, and prefers that her students call her by her first name. She doesn't jump into conversations, preferring to either strike them up herself or be invited into them. She loves horses and doesn't like to see anyone mistreating them. She absolutely loves what she calls 'dalmatian animals', any animal with the white base and black spots.

Kendall is very secretive about her history, and she leaves a few parts out if she is ever asked to talk about it. The principal knows her history, but no one else. Kendall loves to help her students and to watch them succeed, and she is glad of the knowledge that she is passing on the sport of riding to others, even though she cannot do well anymore.
Likes>> Riding, teaching, dalmatian animals, horses, traveling
Dislikes>> Formality, being compared to her former days, seeing people fail, quitters, cats
Fears>> Another car crash, being cornered about her history
Hopes>> See her students succeed, continue getting better with her riding
Secrets>> She was one of the top placers in the 1992 Olympics, but suffered a car crash soon afterwards, and cannot ride as well as she used to.

It’s the way I’m feeling I just can’t deny

Appearance>> Kendall has a rounded face with a ready smile. She has semi-short blonde hair with brown streaks in it. Her piercing ice blue eyes can seem to look straight through a student. Her nose is medium-sized. Kendall stands at 5'10" and weighs about 143 lbs. She walks with a slight limp due to a badly healed leg. {Read her history} She has multiple scars on her right leg, and a few on her right arm and hand. She doesn't go out of her way to cover them up, because they are a part of her by now, but they can be off-putting at first.
Markings>> Multiple big scars on her right leg, a few on her right arm/hand.

But I’ve gotta let it go

Medical History>> Stuck in the hospital after her car crash
Criminal History>> N/A
Full History>> Kendall was born and raised in California, Stockton to be exact. Her parents were both riders, and she learned to love riding as soon as she could form coherent thought. Her first pony was a small Shetland that her parents found for sale at an auction. As she grew, she came to prefer spotted animals, and the Knabstruppers and Appaloosas claimed her heart, both for their appearance and their performance.

When she finished eighth grade, she was accepted in the best riding academy of the time, where she spent four years brushing up her eventing skills and working on her competitions. In her senior year, she came to the attention of the US Olympic team trainers because of her accomplishments in the show ring, and they asked her to compete in the 1992 Olympics.

She trained as hard as she could, riding every day to make sure that she was in the best possible shape for the biggest competition of her life. She competed in the Eventing competition, in both individual and team, and both times received a medal, gold and bronze respectively.

Driving home from the airport, she got into a bad crash, in which her leg was broken in three places. The doctors weren't sure if she would ever be able to walk again, but she was able to, albeit with a limp. She could also ride, although she would never regain the glory of her younger days.

She kept her three horses and made her way to the only place where she could continue working in eventing, or at least her favorite discipline of the three. She started teaching Cross Country at BRRA. Although many students wondered what the slightly eccentric, broken lady could teach them, she was able to get many of her students into the higher show rings.

While she uses what she learned from the Olympics to teach, she never tells the students that she rode in them, preferring to just appear a riding teacher. Her motto is 'Better a lady with a limp than an ex-Olympian who can't ride anymore." She tries to bury her past, and most of her co-workers don't even know about it.

We found love in a hopeless place