ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Dalton Keglovits of Coudersport, Pa., successfully completed four years of challenging academic, physical and professional military training, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics with economics and a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy.

Keglovits is a graduate of Coudersport Area Junior-Senior High School. At the academy, Keglovits was a member of the Men’s Club Basketball Team (president), Fishing Club and Mountaineering Club. He was also a Distinguished Leadership Scholar and was awarded the Mylander-Fredland Prize for outstanding research.

Keglovits graduated with distinction, meaning he finished his time at the academy with an overall ranking in the top 10% of the midshipmen in his class.

Founded in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy is a prestigious four-year service academy that prepares midshipmen morally, mentally and physically to be professional officers in the naval service. More than 4,400 men and women representing every state in the U.S. and several foreign countries make up the student body, known as the Brigade of Midshipmen.

They also study subjects such as leadership, ethics, small arms, drill, seamanship and navigation, tactics, naval engineering and weapons, and military law.

Upon graduation, midshipmen earn a Bachelor of Science degree in a choice of 26 different subject majors and go on to serve at least five years of service as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marine Corps.

Each year, about 1,200 students are admitted to the Naval Academy’s incoming class. The academy’s alumni include one president, 31 members of Congress, five governors, 73 Medal of Honor recipients, two Nobel Prize winners, 55 astronauts, 55 Rhodes Scholars, and more than 4,000 admirals and generals.