Della Churchill sits in the high school wrestling room on March 5. For Churchill's senior project, she chose to serve as assistant coach for the middle school wrestling team. The opportunity let her not only inspire future high school wrestlers but spend a couple extra months in the room she loves.
She loves its water, its plants, its people. She loves the community she's cultivated here, and she loves the personal history of which it reminds her. From tight matches on the wrestling mat to even tighter bonds connecting her with loved ones, Churchill is certain: After college, she's coming home to Wrangell.
But before she does that, she needs to graduate high school - and to do that, she needs a senior project. For that, Churchill helped coach the middle school wrestling team alongside her longtime high school coach Jack Carney.
The two-month middle school season constituted five-day-a-we...
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