Katie J.  Almeter

Date of Birth: Feb. 15, 1982
Place of Birth: Bath, NY

Favorite Sports: Soccer, Track (Participant); Football (Spectator)
Favorite Team
Favorite Song:   Anything on the radio she could sing along and/or dance to. Hear Katie sing "Somewhere over the Rainbow"
Favorite Movie:   City of Angels, Sleepless in Seattle, Pretty Woman
Hobbies: Shopping, hanging out with Rachel and Emily

Activities: Camping, hiking, Bike riding, Indoor soccer, school activities—sports, both spectating and participating, Mock Trial
What were her passions?  Life, family, friends
What were her goals?  To own her own fitness center, work with people, be a professional, own two homes (one near a lake or the ocean)
Career choice?  (See goals)

Favorite school subject:  phys ed
Least Favorite school subject:  English
Snack food: CHOCOLATE!

 Memories and Stories

 From Mom 

Katie was always an active kid—Legos and blocks were favorite toys of her brother’s, and coloring books and paints were her sister’s, but Katie’s favorites were roller skates, a trampoline and a bike—things she could use her graceful, coordinated, wiry body on!  As a young girl, she had amazing upper body strength—she could swing on monkey bars and turn somersaults on rings. She learned to walk at a very young age (9 and a half months) and was soon running everywhere.  She told us that the reason she ran so fast is that when she was little, she tried to keep up with her big brother.  One trait of Katie’s was her persistence.  When she made up her mind she wanted to do something, she figured out a way to do it, and usually made sure everyone else was happy about it along the way (that middle child negotiator role)!   She charmed her peers and teachers and other adults with her ready smile and her willingness to help.  Two of her summers during high school were spent working at a community playground program for children aged 5-9.  When she graduated from high school, she invited some of those children, along with their parents, to her graduation party—and those families came! 

Katie loved to laugh, have a good time with her family and friends, and live life out loud. She traveled to Europe during her junior year of high school, with Emily, Rachel, and several other friends on a school sponsored trip.  It was a wonderful adventure, and she worked hard at her various part-time jobs in order to pay for the entire trip herself.  She was a multi-faceted person—she was a dedicated athlete, striving to do her very best, focused and intent while involved in a soccer game or track event, yet she remembered to have fun and enjoy it all as well.  She loved to get down and dirty in a pick-up football game, or while working at the flower shop, but she also loved the hair/makeup, dress-up clothes routine.  She had an inborn sense of style—she packed her own clothes when we went on a camping trip—a friend remembers 3-year-old Katie stepping out of the tent in the morning in a perfectly matched outfit—right down to the matching socks (and I, her mother, would not have been that picky for camping clothes!)  Katie would tell her brother and her sister and her Dad and me if something we were wearing did not match or look “right.”

Katie wanted to be a professional of some sort—she had just about decided on exercise science as a major, with a future goal of owning her own fitness center—she wanted to work with people, and she wanted to be involved with fitness in some way.  She also wanted to make enough money to own 2 houses, one near the ocean or a lake, as she loved the water.  She often told her Dad and me that she would have plenty of room in those houses for us to come and stay with her whenever we wished. 

Katie’s favorite vacation spots were camping on Piseco Lake in the Adirondacks and renting a house on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

When we went looking at colleges (which we seemed to do everywhere, for over a year, as she would decide “no” as soon as we drove up to a campus, even before we went on the tour!), one of her side activities would be to size up the males on campus for “FH” – future husband.