(Pictured L-R: Ellery Freeman and Madison Fraser at the HKHS Scholarship Night)

Ellery Freeman and Madison Fraser are more than the latest Haddam-Killingworth High School seniors to win Killingworth Ambulance Association scholarships. They’re part of the fourth all-female cast in five years to win the annual awards.

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Dating back to 2019, all but three of the past 17 recipients have been young women. Only the Class of 2021, which included three males, broke a streak that began in 2019 with six females.

Freeman and Fraser continued that trend Thursday night when honored at Haddam-Killingworth High’s Scholarship Night, an hour-long event that included 33 awards. They are two of this year’s three KAA recipients, with Lyme-Old Lyme High School senior Charlotte Judge the third.

The KAA annually grants scholarships to high-school seniors who reside in Killingworth, have been accepted to a two-or-four-year colleges, plan to major in the medical, emergency services or allied fields and have GPAs of 3.0 or better.

All three of this year’s recipients are more than qualified.

Freeman will attend Franklin Pierce University, where she plans on majoring in psychology and hopes to gain an internship to help children “deal with psychological challenges any way I can” after graduation. Fraser will attend the University of Alabama and major in nursing, a field she chose at the age of 14 when her brother died in May, 2020.

“My goal,” she said, “is to become an ER nurse after my studies in college. I am planning to help the people I cross paths with throughout my journey as a nurse, just like the nurses that helped my brother.”

Judge will attend Colorado State’s School of Health and Human Services, where she will concentrate on gerontology.

The Killingworth Ambulance Association congratulates all three recipients.