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HURON EMERY HURON HIGH SCHOOL, 2727 FULLER RD., ANN ARBOR MI 48105 VOL. 10 ISSUE 5
APRIL 2025
Changing lanes: River Rat athletes commit to D1
Track athletes Aliyah Ferguson and Ashton Brann are going D1 after high school. Ferguson will be going to Chicago State and Brann will be going to Purdue Fort Wayne. PHOTO BY HAILEY SELL what differentiates a regular play a sport at a D1 college. community is one of the many for it when I saw that my JULES HESKIA athlete from a D1 athlete. At These two athletes things that made her have this brother was doing well in it, GRAPHICS EDITOR Huron High School, there are started their sports at a very passion. Similarly, Brann has and I started making friends,” According to students planning to play a young age. At the beginning, been running ever since he was Brann said. “So I kind of grew Scholarship Stats, less than two sport at the highest college it was just something to do to 4-years-old. Just like many a love for it.” percent of high school athletes level. Some have already pass time. Huntzicker played other people at that age, he ran Brann just recently go on to play at a Division 1 committed to a college, even as field hockey as something for fun without knowing what committed to run track at college. Approximately one in juniors. Senior Ashton Brann to do, like many other girls. would come. After some time, Purdue University Fort Wayne. 57 athletes achieve this. The and junior Kate Huntzicker She started standing out and he started to grow a passion He believed it was the best fit stats say one thing; it does not are two of the few that have grew a love for the sport in for track. READ THE FULL STORY ON come easy. As well as talent, already made the choice to middle school. The sense of “I became passionate THEHURONEMERY.COM patience and hard work are
Culinary class grows through teacher’s leadership to the program ROWAN GRENIER SPORTS EDITOR Hands on, real life experiences is what sets Chef Samantha Dye’s program apart from other classes. Her culinary class runs through the CTE program and is a designed course to provide the aspiring chef, food industry employee of lodging, and
even hotel manager a broad orientation of the culinary and hospitality industry so that they will better understand what is required to succeed. Dye is one of student’s leaders for this course as a CTE Culinary Arts Instructor and she has been vigorously trying to grow the culinary program to ensure students
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can succeed at the highest possible levels of learning. She holds a lot of experience within the culinary field as she Culinary Arts and Baking Certification, taught food chemistry at Schoolcraft College, worked in industry for five years, taught in high schools for 121 years, and runs a catering business on
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the side. “When I started in 2018 at Huron High School the program was very small and poor facilities,” Dye said. “Through the last seven years we have continued to build our program through major construction projects on our labs to meet the equipment needs for proper
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Huron’s CTE Culinary Arts class poses for a picture at the Miss Kim pop-up dinner. PHOTO COURTESY OF SAMANTHA DYE
See CULINARY, PAGE 4
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