Oneonta Area NAACP Taps Sloth for Award

ONEONTA—The Oneonta Area Branch of the NAACP has awarded a second 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Tuition Assistance Award to Anya Sloth. The purpose of this award is to recognize a student who has demonstrated the ideals and principles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in their schools and communities. The Education Committee selected Sloth because she is an excellent role model for her peers.

Sloth graduated from Oneonta High School this past spring and will be attending SUNY Plattsburgh in the fall, majoring in biology. During her time at Oneonta High School, Sloth was a part of the concert choir, concert band, drama club, cross-country team, indoor track team and outdoor track team. Her senior year, she was captain of the girls cross country team and made many fun and long-lasting memories and friendships. She made it to the STAC All Conference “team.” Her favorite class was AP Biology because Sloth has always found science interesting and fun.

When not at school, Sloth loves reading, walking her dog Odie, going for long runs, babysitting and writing her “Daily Star” columns. She thinks that writing and sharing thoughts and ideas through her columns is a great way of spreading education and opening other individuals’ eyes to different subjects.

Sloth plans to keep running at SUNY Plattsburgh while studying biology with hopes of eventually going into the FBI as a forensic biologist. She is super excited to see where life will take her and can’t wait to add more people to her story.

Sloth would like to thank her mom and sister for always pushing her to do her best, her dog for being a good support animal, and her friends for making her laugh and always offering good advice.