Most aspiring high school athletes grew up kicking soccer balls around or practicing their wrestling moves with their dads, but Michael Woulfe had a different kind of bonding with his parents, who were both diagnosed with cancer when he was a small child.

The 17-year-old from Oak Park, Illinois, has overcome adversity that would have beaten the spirit of many adults and has grown up to become not only a valedictorian of his high school, but also a varsity wrestler, and has now been accepted in the U.S. Naval Academy.

Capt. Owen Honors, the commander of the USS Enterprise, is under investigation by Naval officials after a series of raunchy videos he made years ago was leaked to Norfolk, Virginia's local newspaper, the Virginian-Pilot.

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In the videos -- which were broadcast on closed-circuit television to the ship's nearly 6,000-member crew -- Honors (then an executive officer) and others are seen in a series of skits making tawdry references to homosexuality, masturbation and showering.