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As one of the first women accepted into the US Coast Guard Academy in the late 1970s, Sandra L. Stosz would rise through the ranks of the predominantly male armed forces to eventually become a vice admiral and then earn the distinction of becoming the first woman superintendent of the service academy where she got her start.Â
Admiral Stosz, now retired from the Coast Guard, was raised in the small town of Ellicott City, Maryland, but spent summers at her maternal grandparents home on Great Bay in Falmouth. It was in her grandfatherâs wooden rowboat, paddling off the shores of Falmouth, that she first learned to navigate the open water and cultivated a lifelong passion for a life at sea. Although no one in the family prior to Admiral Stosz spent time serving in the military, she attributes her maternal grandfather s âinfluence to waterâ and a lifelong desire to sail as significant factors in her decision to join the Coast Guard.