Jillian Santi, a 2004 graduate of Whidbey Island Academy, has received a master’s degree in criminal justice from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, with a 4.0 grade point average.

Santi also competed in the United States Dressage Federation’s Region 6 Championships this past fall in Nampa, Idaho.

Santi won the amateur adult Prix St. George prize riding her Haflinger, Starwars TOF. Starwars is the only Haflinger in the United States to ever compete at a Federation Equestre Internationale level.