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Kelsey Schultz
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Full name

Kelsey Elizabeth Schultz

Endurance: High Sierras, 2nd place
Hometown

Rockwall, Texas

Age

15

Team

Purple Team

Partner

Dakota Fisher

Arrived

Balance is the Key

Left

Finale

Athletic and intelligent, Kelsey has an adventurous spirit and prefers that people like her for her intelligence rather than her looks. She is also serious about sports; back home she's on the swim team, is a member of the varsity drill dance team, and has been training hard for a breast cancer three-day, 60-mile race. When it comes to pressure, Kelsey works best when there's a time crunch and people are counting on her. She feels she has the right combination of traits and skills to win Endurance.

—DiscoveryKids.com bio

Kelsey Elizabeth Schultz (born August 30, 1990) is a former Endurance: High Sierras contestant and finalist. She competed alongside Dakota Fisher as the Purple Team.

Endurance[]

Kelsey was voted by the fans to be on the fifth season of Endurance, making her the 100th contestant on the show.

Kelsey was one of the two contestants who were considered for the free ride when the girls voted. When it was revealed that Darci won it over her, she started to cry, because she was afraid of what would happen next. However, due to the good karma J.D. offered, Kelsey was chosen by Darci to skip the Right to Stay, because she was second in the vote. In the partner selection, she was initially planned to be paired with Cameron but Dakota later expressed interest in her. She was the first to fall in the partner challenge. She was paired with Dakota though by Cameron and Aeriel. She and Dakota in turn paired Alex and Cealey. They faced the risk of eliminated that day as a second challenge was played where the last placed team would be going home. She and Dakota though managed to be the second team to complete the challenge and picked Purple as their color.

After Garret and Anna were eliminated, they decided to give the friendship piece to Purple. This piece was referred to as Triangle of Immunity as it would grant purple the ability to save themselves or another team from temple. Purple became active in an alliance with Red, Orange and Green. The first endurance mission, Hot Potato, had a twist where the winner could switch any two teams or give the power to someone else. When Blue surprisingly won the mission, Dakota (with Kelsey's approval) came up with a plan to convince Blue to give the power to Red, claiming they would switch Red and Green, who would then switch Blue and Gray. While the plan did go through, the event was dramatic and emotional for several of the players.

In Move it Along, Kelsey suggested that Dakota could use Taylor's crush on him to prevent Purple from getting the Samadhi after the reformed Blue Team won the mission.

In Walk the Plank, Kelsey motivated Dakota, telling him to "think about Hawaii" and to at least make it past Gray. When Dakota suggested she weighed twenty pounds, she interjected with "I am twenty pounds!". Despite losing the challenge, they were spared from Temple.

Portrayal and Relationships[]

Kelsey was seen as a good competitor, willing to go through the challenges and strategize for her team. In contrast to her partner, Kelsey was more low-key, as she didn't like backstabbing people unless it was totally necessary.

Kelsey was best friends with Cealey, and helped them, but towards the end, she befriended Taylor of the Blue Team. This, however, was a strategy to keep Purple in the game.

Quotes[]

  • "I want a cookie."
  • "I'm slipping, I'm slipping, I'm slipping..."
  • "I am 20 pounds!"
  • "You know, before I came here, I was thinking I would 't make it for three days. You know, and I made it to the final two, and, I just never found out it was possible, and this experience, it wasn't what I thought it would be...and, to make it far into this game, you definitely need to be a strong person. Watching the show, I never realized that."

Post Endurance[]

Kelsey attended the University of North Texas for her undergrad, and is currently working on her Ph.D. on neuroscience at the University of Oregon. She was also in the movie Queen Sized.

Trivia[]

  • Kelsey was the 100th contestant in Endurance history.
  • In a interview on the Endurance DK proboards, she stated that if she played again, she would buddy up with Connor and Taylor sooner. She would also bring an extra pair of contact lenses (she apparently lost one just before taking part in the final piece mission and says it negatively affected her performance).
  • Her favorite mission was Superboats.
  • She attended a casting call for Endurance: Tehachapi when it took place in the same building she was also in Dallas. While she wasn't chosen, the producers suggested that she audition for the following season.
  • She placed 26th on the ProBoards' Endurance Rankdown.
  • Kelsey shares the same birthday as Mike Lavigne of Endurance 2 (30 August), but she is three years younger.



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