MHS Alumni Mallory Kovacs finds job as veterinary technician

With Monroe High School seniors graduating this month and going on to doing great things, it reminds us of the many accomplishments MHS alumni have achieved. Mallory Kovacs, a MHS alumni, tells her story about what she did after graduation and her job as a Veterinary Technician.

Kovacs graduated from Monroe High School and then went on to Strautzenburger College and graduated with High Honors for Veterinary Technology in 2018. 

Kovacs now works for a local clinic in Monroe where she helps prep and take care of the animals that come into the clinic’s care.

“Being a Veterinary Technician means you are the doctors’ “right hand man,” said Kovacs. “I place pets under anesthesia, I monitor them while under, I take radiographs, draw blood, restrain pets for procedures, do lab work, along with calculating medications, assistant in surgery, dental cleanings, and, of course, loving every animal as my own.”

In high school, Kovacs decided to take classes such as medical terminology and participated in Health Occupations Students of America or HOSA to help her become a vet.

“High school prepared me by offering clubs like HOSA or classes like medical terminology. I have wanted to be a veterinary technician since I was able to talk, so naturally the medical-themed classes/clubs interested me the most,” said Kovacs. “This later helped me in life because a lot of the medical terminology is the same in vet medicine as in human medicine. This made a lot of my college classes easier.”

During her time at MHS, she also spent her time singing in many of the school’s choirs and said that her favorite classes were mainly science and english.

“In high school, I was in choir. I worked my way up from Concert Choir to Generations of Sound. My favorite subject was anything science or English related,” said Kovacs.

Kovacs also helped out at the Toledo Zoo during college and gained some experience from that.

“I volunteered within the Veterinary department at the Toledo Zoo for two years part time while in college,” said Kovacs. “I have learned to help treat over 20 different species of animals in college (from fish to elephants and everything in between), but only currently work with cats and dogs. I would love to eventually work in zoo medicine again.”