year and i m so pumped because now i get to represent the organization that i love. reporter: the organization that she dearly loved is the boys and girls club. it s a place that keona calls home. it s where she found inspiration and motivation from caring adults who served as her mentors. they, keona says, helped her and her single parent mother through some very difficult times when her mother became permanently disabled following heart surgery. keona had to work to make money, plus keep a rigorous academic schedule it the club was there to help. i would have never had the confidence in myself. i would have never believed that i can do this. i can achieve my deeps. and the boys and girls club had just been that foundation i needed. on behalf of the 4 million kids that we serve a year at boys and girls clubs of america, keona is a shining example of our program, and the evidence, the irrefutable evidence, of what we re all about. reporter: at howard, keona is