Payton Kenney

Dedicated professional with a robust background in aquatic safety and emergency response, fully prepared to excel in this role. Expertise in ensuring patron safety, managing high-pressure situations, and executing effective rescues. Committed to fostering teamwork and achieving safety objectives while demonstrating adaptability to dynamic environments. Proficient in CPR, first aid, and water rescue techniques, complemented by a dependable and composed demeanor, ready to embrace new challenges and experiences.

• American Red Cross:
• Lifeguard (including Deep Water) with CPR/AED for professional Rescuers and First AID
• Valid until December 2026

• Sigma Kappa, Epsilon Delta, Susquehanna University
• Social Chair
• Scheduled and coordinated events for 30 to 60 members from each organization and club on campus to engage in each other’s cultures.

• Sigma Kappa Foundation
• Organize philanthropy events to raise money for member scholarships.
• Alzheimer’s Disease Research
• Participate in the Bloomsburg “Walk to End Alzheimer’s” to help raise money towards Alzheimer’s research and to further raise awareness.
• Gerontology, Brookdale Senior Living, Snyder County, Pennsylvania
• Engage with the elders in assisted living
• The Main Sea Coast Mission
• Organize events to raise money for residents of Maine’s coastal communities, helping them access food and essential supplies.
• Inherit the Earth
• We encourage community involvement through campus cleaning and planting new flowers or plants around the local community.

• Susquehanna University Fall 2022-Present
• Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving

Research Methods Fall 2023

• Excelled in writing literature reviews, collecting data, and analyzing data collection through various statistical testing

Adolescents Spring 2023

• Understood the developmental changes adolescents experience that result in behavioral shifts into early adulthood.

Drugs, Society, and Behavior Spring 2024

• Enhanced knowledge of various therapeutic drugs and treatments, and their diverse effects on the body

Advanced Research Design/Analysis Fall 2025

• Ran different studies through Excel, jamovi, while running different experiments (multifactor experiments, between-subjects and within-subjects designs, t-tests, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), and similar statistical applications) and reported findings

• Directed Research – Senior Thesis, Susquehanna University. Fall 2024
• Title: The Role of Social Media in Relationship Longevity
• Researcher: Payton Kenney, Olivia Owens, Chelsea Stanton, Eve Morris, and Helen Kiso, PhD
• Participant responses were analyzed through various statistical methods: multiple regression analysis, ‘Social Provision Scale,’ ‘The Social Media Use Scale,’ ‘Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support,’ and a shortened version of McGill’s (1999) ‘Friendship Questionnaire’

• Sports Psychology Fall 2025
• Exhibit knowledge in theories and apply various methods when working with athletes or individuals who exercise, and help those individuals stay engaged with a program to accomplish their goals
• Health Psychology Spring 2024
• Gained an understanding of the biopsychosocial perspective on health, covering various aspects such as types of stress, chronic diseases, and well-being in correspondence to a person’s mental health.

• Theories of Psychotherapy Fall 2025
• Demonstrated an understanding of different methods of delivery for clinical practices and professional ethics in the field
• Psychological Disorders Fall 2023
• Studied various abnormal behaviors outlined in the DSM-5, along with treatment and procedures used in diagnoses.