Spearing’s county EMT experience leads to spot in international competition

  • Kate Spearing, a 2023 Oglethorpe County High School graduate, stands with a county ambulance in her emergency medical services uniform. Spearing has logged more than 200 clinical hours as an EMT and will compete at HOSA’s International Leadership Conference in Dallas starting June 21. (McCain Bracewell/The Oglethorpe Echo)
    Kate Spearing, a 2023 Oglethorpe County High School graduate, stands with a county ambulance in her emergency medical services uniform. Spearing has logged more than 200 clinical hours as an EMT and will compete at HOSA’s International Leadership Conference in Dallas starting June 21. (McCain Bracewell/The Oglethorpe Echo)

    Kate Spearing’s first time responding to a medical emergency was for a patient in cardiac arrest. It also happened to be the 17-year-old’s first time in the back of an ambulance. 

     

    Although h…