Husband and wife Lindsey Grant and Julie Sherrill Grant stand on a metal catwalk where they can look down on pens of cattle as the bovines mill around at the
It didn t come as a surprise when Laura Sherrill set her sights on attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in King s Point, New York.
Growing up in Ketchikan, Sherrill had watched as her brother and sister both left to attend the academy after receiving congressional nominations. Her father, Troy Sherrill, also attended the academy. I feel like I ve always known I wanted to go to the Merchant Marine academy, said Sherrill in a recent interview with the Daily News. My father, he went there, and then it kind of solidified when my sister got accepted and went. I was in middle school. And then I was like, OK, well, my sister s going, my brother s probably going to go, this is something I can look into.
Kayhi National Ocean Sciences Bowl team preps for state competition
Posted by Maria Dudzak | Mar 10, 2021
March 10th, Ketchikan High School is holding its National Ocean Sciences Bowl Day to help its team, the Saber-toothed Salmon, prepare for the regional competition, the Alaska Tsunami Bowl. The head coach and team members were interviewed last week via Zoom. They all were masked and sharing a single computer, so, unfortunately, audio was difficult to understand at times. Here is part of that interview beginning with coach Keenan Sanderson explaining what National Ocean Science Bowl is.
The Kayhi National Ocean Sciences Bowl team. Top Row: Assistant Coach Laura Sherrill, Head Coach Keenan Sanderson, 8th grade participant Lucas Ramsey. Middle Row: Senior Jolie Powers, Sophomore Romel Del Mundo, Junior Kai Biagi. Bottom Row: Co-Captain/Junior Kaydence Dyson, Captain/Junior Ellie Pickrell (photo courtesy of Keenan Sanderson).
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