Award Recipient

2018

Lifeguard Systems-Public Safety Diving Scholarship, sponsored by Lifeguard Systems, Inc. (Andrea Zaferes)

Colleen Ferris

Colleen is a conservationist, public safety diver and educator who calls the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem home. Colleen is a Wilderness EMT and PADI Divemaster, and is proud to be the first woman in over a decade to serve on the Gallatin Co. SAR Tactical Dive Team. She balances her time working for a local community-based non-profit and teaching wilderness medicine. Her goals are to complete public safety diving and ice rescue certifications; she wishes to promote aquatic safety in her community and inspire safe diving practices in Montana.

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