Centralia College Student to Receive Award From Gov. Inslee

Centralia College student Molly McMahan has been named to the 2018 Coca-Cola All-Washington Community College Academic Team. She received $250 in scholarships from Key Bank for her achievement.

McMahan will be honored at the All-Washington Team Awards Ceremony on Thursday at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia where Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to speak. He will present the awards to each of the team members.

McMahan is a second-year student at Centralia College and has a 4.0 grade point average. She expects to graduate in June and transfer to the University of Washington in the fall, where she will study ethnic, cultural, gender and group studies. McMahan is currently the vice president of the Centralia College chapter of Phi Theta Kappa and the historian for the Gender and Sexuality Alliance. She also plays euphonium and trumpet for the Lewis County Community Band and the Centralia College Pep Band.

“Community colleges allow low-income students, such as myself, to achieve academically without running into debt,” McMahan wrote in the press release. “There are fantastic professors at my college with impressive credentials, who choose to teach here because they enjoy the college and the community.”