This year’s Anacortes Youth Sports Coalition scholarship winners are, from left, Courtney Doyle, Shizune Haratani, Gracie Schwabe, Reed Myers, Talin Kerr, Ty Swapp, Grace Johnston and Joseph Pestar.

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This year’s Anacortes Youth Sports Coalition scholarship winners are, from left, Courtney Doyle, Shizune Haratani, Gracie Schwabe, Reed Myers, Talin Kerr, Ty Swapp, Grace Johnston and Joseph Pestar.
The Anacortes Youth Sports Coalition awarded $12,000 in scholarships Monday, June 9, to eight graduating Anacortes High School students.
A week earlier, the Anacortes Schools Foundation awarded about $470,000 in scholarships to 130 graduating seniors and 47 current college students during a ceremony at the high school’s Brodniak Hall.
The coalition doled out $2,000 each to four students and $1,000 each to another four.

Joseph Pestar, Shizune Haratani, Gracie Schwabe and Talin Kerr received $2,000 Bill and Lisa Wooding Vocational Scholarships.
Pestar is headed to Bellingham Technical College to become an electrician. Haratani, who aims to become a chef, is also going to Bellingham Technical College.
Schwabe is off to become a hairdresser at Evergreen Beauty College, while Kerr is headed to Skagit Valley College and Bellingham Technical College to become an electrician.
With the coalition’s $1,000 namesake scholarship, Courtney Doyle is headed to Montana State University to become veterinarian.
Grace Johnston received the $1,000 Doyle Geer Memorial Scholarship. She is going to Boise State University to become a conservation biologist.
Reed Myers was awarded the $1,000 Don and Marguerite Daniels Memorial Scholarship. He’s headed to Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, to study political science as well as law and justice.
Ty Swapp received the $1,000 Tom Swapp Memorial Scholarship. He is off to Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, to become a teacher.
Nicholas Johnson can be reached at njohnson@goanacortes.com or (360) 732-1753.
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