Haines students picked up several honors at the Region V high school basketball tournament in Ketchikan this month.
Seniors Tyler Swinton and Hannah Wing earned all-conference recognition for basketball, senior Cassie Galasso was an all-tournament cheerleader, and junior Margarette Jones made the all-tournament dance team. Swinton has since been named to the Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches’ All-State squad, as a second-team 3A performer.
All-star pep band members in Ketchikan included senior Emily Bowman and junior Brandon Bachman. “Good sport” awards went to seniors Devin Braaten and Brandon Haxton, junior Jess Giddings, and sophomore Libby Jacobson.
Receiving all-academic honors were seniors Bowman, Braaten, Galasso, Haxton, Swinton, Wing, Anna Jacobson, Amey and Ashley Messerschmidt, Marnie Rasmussen, Parker Schnabel and Logan Simpson.
Haines also won the tournament’s sportsmanship award.