her to get into veterinary school and convinced her father, Jared, to make the trip across the country. “We also went to Cedar Crest and Chatham on the trip,” Skeith said. “Lycoming was the last school. I loved the feel when we got on campus — it’s not so big I would get lost and a perfect-sized campus. People we met were so kind and welcoming.” “When we went home, my dad knew that I wanted to go to Lycoming. He saw my face lit up when I saw campus. There is a building with our name on it – how perfect is that even if it is spelled different? He was a big part of my decision to go to Lycoming.” That was no small sacrifice for Jared, who was diagnosed with liver cancer in December 2025 and is still fighting the disease. “He pushed me to go to Lycoming even though I was nervous to go,” Kamryn, a biochemistry major, said. “He knew it was where I was meant to be.” Jared’s battle with cancer wasn’t the Skeiths’ first brush with the disease. Sarita was diagnosed with breast cancer during Kamryn’s junior year of high school and has been in remission for a year. “She’s one of my biggest role models,” Skeith said. “When she was going through something hard, she still showed up, came to every game and event, no matter what she was going through. She still showed up the next day at school after chemotherapy.” That commitment Kamryn saw in her mother is something that Lycoming’s new women’s volleyball coach, Hannah Lingold, saw in the younger Skeith during the spring semester. “She’s very tough,” Lingold said. “She has the ability to keep going, even though we might have pushed her a lot. Kamryn knows she still has to keep going because her teammates rely on her to set a ball or to make that effort to get the ball. She works with teammates if they want to work on different things and they need a setter, or they just need someone else there.” Then again, having grown up in a ball cart, could you really expect anything less? 17 www.lycoming.edu
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