Sanders Academic All-American

use mugs for Jim Sanders and Katlyn Chaney
BALTIMORE, Md. -- Jim Sanders, a senior safety on the Johns Hopkins University football team from South Range High, has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America second team.
Sanders, who helped Johns Hopkins to an 8-3 record and to its first-ever outright Centennial Conference championship and NCAA playoff berth, carries a 3.42 grade-point average majoring in biomedical engineering.
He is a three-time member of the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll.
Johns Hopkins lost its first-round playoff game to Thiel, 28-3.
Sanders ranked No. 3 on the team this year in tackles with a career-high 61, and also had five pass breakups, two tackles for losses, one interception and one forced fumble. He was named to the All-Centennial Conference second team.
Sanders was a big factor in the Blue Jays' defense that led the conference in points allowed per game (13.4) and yards allowed per game (95.3), and held six opponents to seven points or less.
Sanders finished his career with 115 tackles to help JHU to at least a share of the Centennial Conference title in each of his four seasons.
Extra-curricular success
Sanders also has achieved success off the field in various extra-curricular activities, and was named to the 2005 AFCA Good Works Team.
He completed an internship during the summer of 2004 with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning, during which he designed and implemented educational enrichment activities for 30 underprivileged children.
He later took on the role of recruiting supervisor for the Center and evaluated applications and interviewed worthy candidates for the Center's Teach Baltimore program.
In addition, Sanders has been a contributor to his church group (Federated Orthodox Christians of America).
He also has been the football team's representative on the Johns Hopkins Student Athlete Advisory Committee, and has volunteered his time at local nursing homes and the Salvation Army.
Chaney swims for Ashland
ASHLAND -- Katlyn (Katy) Chaney, a former Lakeview High student and the maternal granddaughter of Sally and Dick Mazer of Cortland, already is leaving her mark as a freshman swimmer for Ashland University.
Chaney, the daughter of Lori and Jeff Chaney and a 2005 graduate of Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, Va., turned in two outstanding performances at the recent College of Wooster Invitational, both efforts ranking high on the school's all-time charts..
She placed second in the 200 breaststroke (2 minutes, 26.06 seconds) which ranks No. 3 all-time at Ashland. And she placed third in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.25) which is No. 5 in school history. She also was third in the 200 individual medley (2:14.86).
Chaney lived in Cortland with her maternal grandparents for two years while her father was in the U.S. Navy and stationed in Japan. Her mother also was in Japan at the time serving as a schoolteacher for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Swam for Lakeview
During that time, Chaney swam for Lakeview High as an independent and was a regional qualifier. She also swam for the Trumbull County YMCA Team.
Then Chaney also went on to swim for Colonial Forge, where she was a three-year state qualifier and was named the team's Most Valuable Swimmer all three years. She also was voted captain her junior and senior years.
While at Lakeview, Katlyn, with help from her grandmother Sally, organized Operation Christmas Eagle, which was a gift-giving drive for sailors aboard her father's ship, the USS Curtis Wilbur, a Navy missile destroyer, and also the USS Kitty Hawk, an aircraft carrier.
Her father was a Navy lieutenant commander of the USS Curtis Wilbur at the time while fighting the war on terrorism, and is now retired.
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