SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 12, 2022 (Gephardt Daily) Eight students from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind completed a two-day, 70-mile boating challenge in Washington state, crossing the finish line at 7:10 a.m. Sunday after 36 hours of rowing. The students and eight adult chaperones began the Seventy48 event at Students from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind completed a two-day, 70-mile rowing challenge in Washington state Sunday morning.
Students and faculty from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, and some support friends, recently did an overnight paddle mission for an upcoming 70-mile boat race.
A crew from the Utah Schools for Deaf and Blind will participate in the Seventy48 boat race in the Puget Sound. Last year, rough seas forced the Utah team to pull out. The students are going back to Washington to race this year.
As she accepts her diploma this spring, Utah State University scholar Natalie Anderson could be the first person in the world born with profound hearing loss to earn a doctoral degree in mathematics.