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Donna Kelce had some advice for high school kids who decide where to go to college.
Kelce, mother of Jason and Travis Kelce, who both went to the University of Cincinnati, said the children should go to college far away from their hometown.
“I think people should go as far away as they might, that’s my point of view. I think you’re growing more when you’re away from people who are with you all the time,” Donna said during a recent performance on “new heights.”
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Donna Kelce, mother of Jason Kelce and Tavis Kelce, participates in the first round of the NFL draft at Union Station on April 27, 2023. (Kirby Lee -usa Today Sports)
“I think if you want to do the same and go to a college and have the same friends around you, you will never have any growth. You will never be able to be on your own and try to find out things on your own. You will always have someone who besides you to help you through all these decisions.”
“But when you go to college, you are completely, usually completely on your own. And you don’t have anyone there, you just kind of fail and then you win, you know what I mean. Sometimes you have small setbacks that are adversity, you have to work through it.”
Kelce said that those who decide not to go to college also had to move far from home.
“That’s why I don’t think it’s a good idea to be home when you go to college or be close.”
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Donna Kelce celebrates after the AFC championship against Buffalo Bills at Geha Field at Arrowhead Stadium on January 26, 2025. (Mark J. Revilas-prescribed images)
Travis Kelce said the university selection process should be a selfish, and not a choice you make for others.
“College is a decision you need to make for yourself. It is a selfish decision you have to make for the future of the career or trajectory you want to make in life,” Travis said.
“No one had to go to a school to follow someone other than how I went to Cincinnati to go there because of Jason. I don’t think anyone should go to college to follow anyone else. I think they should go there for the values they see will be best suitable for them.”
Donna Kelce gives cookies to her sons, Jason Kelce from Philadelphia Eagles, and Travis Kelce from Kansas City Chiefs, under the Super Bowl LVII opening night on February 6, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Jason Kelce repeated Travis’ atmosphere that the university selection process was about the student and no one else.
“You go to college to learn and get a degree, you don’t go to college, so you can be with other people. Like that’s not why you go to college. If you want to do it, just go to college and live wherever this person’s (living) is not the reason you choose to go to college.”
Jason and Travis did not take their mother’s advice as they grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and went to College in Cincinnati. While remaining in Ohio, Cleveland Heights and Cincinnati at the opposite ends of the state are a four -hour drive away from each other.
