StoryCorps is an oral history project based on the idea that the stories of everyday people are the most important and interesting of all. This week, Kyle Williams talks about “one of the most mortifying moments that anyone can have in their high school career.”
Kyle attended St. Thomas Acquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: a prolific athletic center that produces Olympians and professional athletes. Students were required to play a sport in order to graduate, which forced Kyle – who was then known around school for impersonating Henry VIII — to join the track team.
She talked to StoryCorps facilitator Vanessa Gonzalez-Block about her first competition in the 400 meter dash.
Kyle added, "I’d rather be the crazy, hunchback sidekick instead of the Ingenue." This interview was recorded at StoryCorps’ mobile studio in New Orleans.
