• Taylor Eppard, far left, joins fellow interns for a cage diving experience to perform research on sharks.
    Taylor Eppard, far left, joins fellow interns for a cage diving experience to perform research on sharks.
  • Taylor captured this photo of a shark during her internship.
    Taylor captured this photo of a shark during her internship.

    Taylor Eppard, of Perrysburg, spent a month of her summer vacation doing an internship in South Africa through Siena Heights University.

    The junior biology student also is an infielder for the SHU softball team and a member of Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Honor Society.

    One of her biggest goals in life is to be featured on Discovery’s Shark Week. Through her internship experience with GoD…