{"id":2697,"date":"2015-01-16T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2015-01-16T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:17:49","slug":"troy-brennan-of-emmaus-high-school-receives-nomination-to-u-s-merchant-marine-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Troy Brennan of Emmaus High School Receives Nomination to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Sen. Toomey Announces Nominations to the <\/strong><strong>U.S. Service Academies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2013 Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today announced the Pennsylvania students he has nominated to the United States Service Academies for the class entering 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the greatest honors of my office is nominating outstanding young Pennsylvanians to the United States Service Academies,\u201d <strong>said Sen. Toomey. <\/strong>\u201cThe selection process for these academies is very competitive and nominees must demonstrate the highest caliber of academic success, leadership skills, and character. These students embody these qualities, and I wish each of them nothing but the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Madeline Suba, Huntingdon Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Bell, Northern York High School<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Campanella, Manheim Township High School<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Cross, Central York High School<\/p>\n<p>Megan Henderson, Saint Mary\u2019s Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Galen Kreutzberger, Penn-Trafford High School<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Maloney, Lansdale Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Brian Jacob Matus, The Hill School<\/p>\n<p>Rocco Maue, Moon Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Gino Nicosia, Penns Valley Area High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Miriam Ewell-Wice, Taylor Allerdice High School<\/p>\n<p>Julia Corton, Peters Township High School<\/p>\n<p>Charles Akerblom, Harriton High School<\/p>\n<p>Peter Collins, LaSalle College High School<\/p>\n<p>Kahse Mandarino, Episcopal Academy<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Johnson, Burrell High School<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Kiehn, Fox Chapel Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Tora Scott, Central Valley High School<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Sermarini, Boyertown Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Nagy, Great Valley High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Spring, Colo.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Lionel Gumireddy, North Alleghany High School<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Barr, Malvern Preparatory School<\/p>\n<p>Scott Bartkowiak, York Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Layng, Grace Preparatory High School<\/p>\n<p>Connor Martin, Homeschooled, Washington County<\/p>\n<p>Mark McVeigh, Marple Newtown High School<\/p>\n<p>Cheyenne Philson, Dallastown Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Shea, Leechburg Area High School\/USAF Preparatory School<\/p>\n<p>John Stein, Greater Latrobe High School<\/p>\n<p>Albert Taglieri, Spring Grove Area High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Seth Balkey, Homeschooled, Centre County<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troy Brennan, Emmaus High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bryce Carroll, Northern York High School<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Doratt, Pequea Valley High School<\/p>\n<p>John Heffernan, Carlisle High School<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Kelly, Booner &amp; Prendergast Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lyons, Archbishop Wood High School<\/p>\n<p>Nathanael Marino, Blue Mountain High School<\/p>\n<p>Neil Painter, Cedar Cliff High School<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Robinson, Shaler Area High School<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Jaffee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press Assistant<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator Pat Toomey<\/p>\n<p>248 Russell Senate Office Building<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. 20510<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:202-224-4254\">202-224-4254<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Toomey Announces Nominations to the U.S. Service Academies \u00a0 Washington, D.C. \u2013 Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today announced the Pennsylvania students he has nominated to the United States Service &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=2697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troy Brennan of Emmaus High School Receives Nomination to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[947,951,950,955,953,948,945,956,954,949,952,943,946,957,944],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-annapolis","tag-colo","tag-colorado-spring","tag-emmaus-high-school","tag-kings-point","tag-md","tag-n-y","tag-sen-toomey","tag-troy-brennan","tag-u-s-air-force-academy","tag-u-s-merchant-marine-academy","tag-u-s-military-academy","tag-u-s-naval-academy","tag-u-s-service-academies","tag-west-point"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Toomey-Press-Release-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}