Kent State

Valley resident

graduates

Meredith Decker, a 2007 graduate of Parkland High School, graduated from Kent State in Ohio with a Master's degree in exercise science and a concentration in athletic training.

She received her Bachelor of Science degree from California University of Pennsylvania.

Decker is doing a one-year intership at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, as an athletic trainer for the women's soccer team and also the football team, while teaching classes at TCU and University of Texas at Arlington.

She is also doing research and seeing athletes at the Ben Hogan Clinic in Fort Worth.

Decker is the daughter of Leo and Joann Decker of Allentown.