Senior Spotlight: Marcus Kosechequetah

Marcus Kosechequetah, who graduated from homeschooling in the spring of 2024, plays volleyball for Sun Thunder, Trident and Kaizen and plays middle on all three teams.

He said his most significant accomplishment in volleyball was winning the boy’s championship this year.

“We've lost a lot of our big hitters the last couple of years, but we kind of pulled it through,” Kosechequetah said.

His accomplishments include how he presents himself.

“Not necessarily the way I dress, but just the way I talk, and so do my friends, too, the way we interact with others,” Kosechequetah said. “Not necessarily, you know, putting anybody down or up in a certain way.”

He said he will miss his parents backing him up when he leaves for Oral Roberts University (ORU).

“They're always there. In middle school, I was in school also, well, in public school,” Kosechequetah said. “But they weren't, you know, there for every step. I couldn't really just walk up to them and say, ‘Hey, can I take a help on this problem?’ I had to kind of figure out my own, which I've done the last couple of years a little more, but it's just going to be different not having them there.”

He is focused on accomplishing general studies and music lessons at ORU.

“I had some friends going there. They have a lot of God-centered stuff. They have a worship, I think, Wednesdays and Fridays,” Kosechequetah said. “We went to one of them, and it was just really, really awesome.”

He plays bass at his church and was in a jazz band but also enjoys building computers.

“People around me, you know, encouraging me as whatever I do, mom and dad, but this was an environment that allowed me to really explore all these areas and having the money to do it,” Kosechequetah said. “I had to pool my own money for a computer, working a little side job and helping Grandma and Grandpa, but, you know, it's just kind of, I've just been able to go down these avenues in a way that has, you know, led me to succeed in them.”

He built a computer about a year ago with the help of YouTube and online stores.

But Kosechequetah’s passion for music comes from his family.

“Our family has always been very musical,” he said. “My dad's music teacher, my mom, she played pretty much any instrument she could get her hands on, so whenever she became the worship director for our church, she invited me to play bass.”

Kosechequetah said he played baritone in elementary school for several years.

“I was actually all-region champ a couple times. I got to play in a band that was pulled together from other schools,” he said. “It was pretty fun. It was different, like coming right into middle school, never really done that, and then I got to do it, which was fun.”

Kosechequetah said growing out his hair keeps him close to his Comanche heritage.

“In middle school, I started growing it out more, and they didn't really like that there,” he said. “I'd always, like, tug it behind my ears, and so now it's, like, for me, it's just wearing it out is kind of representing for myself.”