Author BIO

“On this Women’s History Month day, Gethsemane Chapter #34 celebrates Sis. Tanisha Kemp. Sister Kemp holds down the first point, Adah, in the Chapter and has accumulated a life of FIRSTS. Sis. Tanisha Kemp has a charitable spirit and is always ready to assist Gethsemane Chapter #34 with our community service endeavors; she has a giving spirit. You will always see her with her son, Master Michael Smothers, a Myra Grand Chapter’s Simon-Cunningham Grand Youth Fraternity member and the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Knights of Pythagoras, Inc.

Sis. Tanisha Kemp is a proud Morgan State University Lady Bear Alumna and a formidable softball opponent who was the 1st recipient of a full softball scholarship at Morgan State. She also holds All-Conference and All-American honors. Sis. Kemp was a four-time All-MEAC first-team and two-time All-American softball player for the Lady Bears. She was named the Morgan State Female Athlete of the Year (1998). Sis. Tanisha Kemp led the NCAA individual statistics in 12 categories and holds 13 Morgan State season and career records. Kemp was a four-time First-Team All-MEAC selection and two-time All-American selection. In 1996, she won the coveted MEAC Rookie of the Year award, was selected as the 1997 MEAC Player of the Year, and was the 1998 MEAC Player of the Year runner-up. She was also a First-Team All-MEAC selection at shortstop in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Some of Sis. Tanisha Kemp’s NCAA career records include batting average (.444), home runs (31), hits (171), doubles (27) and runs scored (149). She holds five season records, including batting average (.515), home runs (11), doubles (12), runs scored (47), hits (55) and slugging percentage (988). Sis. Tanisha Kemp led the NCAA in individual statistical categories and still holds thirteen Morgan season and career statistical records. Sis. Kemp was inducted into Morgan State’s Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2016, Sis. Kemp was inducted into C. K. McClatchy High School’s Hall of Fame. Sis. Kemp still holds NCAA records.

Sis. Tanisha Kemp is an entrepreneurial game changer and a trailblazer, as she has found a way to take her love of Reiki and help people heal to create her first company, The Stretch Zen. Her newest company, Balanced Hands Connect Minds, ADHD Consulting, LLC, is another way for Sis. Kemp to pour into people and children. The Stretch Zen is a holistic sanctuary offering Reiki, which helps balance the mind, body, and spirit.

Sis. Kemp is an extraordinary woman who believes the gentlest of words can open the strangest locks. We love Sis. Tanisha Kemp (and her son Michael), and celebrate her today and always!!