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Lifelong Frog
FWST: The Back Story: Kelsey Patterson
By Stefan Stevenson
Photo by Ross Hailey
The back story
Kelsey Patterson rarely had been around the Texas Christian University campus while growing up in Fort Worth. After graduating from Southwest High School, she left for the University of Texas at Austin and stayed to work for the Longhorn athletic department and then the Southwest Conference. It was when she returned home to take a marketing director's job at the Fort Worth Zoo that she became better acquainted with the Horned Frogs -- and one in particular. She met TCU football coach Gary Patterson through some cross-promotions with the zoo, she says, and the two got to know each other at the coach's radio show early in the 2002 season. They married in February 2004, and now much of her life centers around purple pride. ...