UNL recognizes Distinguished Scholars of 2008

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln recognized top Nebraska high school seniors for their academic excellence Oct. 30 at the 2008 Omaha World-Herald Recognition Dinner. These distinguished scholars have demonstrated a high level of ability and a strong commitment to superior performance in academics as indicated by their class ranking, combined with their ACT or SAT test scores. All Nebraska National Merit semifinalists, National Hispanic Scholars and National Achievement Scholars were also recognized.

The Omaha World-Herald Recognition Dinner culminated a full day of events for the distinguished scholars. Distinguished Scholars Day gives students the opportunity to learn more about the academic programs offered at UNL through the University Honors Program. Students and parents learned about the numerous academic opportunities for students at UNL, ranging from research to international experiences. All students interacted in small seminar classes on subjects including business, history, journalism, English, computer science, education, biochemistry and engineering.

Following is a list by hometown of students honored as distinguished scholars.

Adams: Jamie Buhr.

Ainsworth: Michael Sholes.

Albion: Jennifer Simons.

Arapahoe: Alexandra Henry.

Arlington: Ellen Hoffschneider, Katelyn Moravec.

Ashland: Emily Judds.

Atkinson: Danika Young.

Aurora: Linda Arthur, Daniel Haden, Ashlyn Lackore.

Beatrice: Steven Gloor.

Beemer: Jesse Meaike.

Bellevue: Chase Blazek, Jasmine Dehghan-Dusch, Sarah Gilchrist, Michael Hitt, Daniel Holtmeyer, Sabrina Johnson, Brianna Kallman, Claire Koukol, Robert Meinders, Ashley Moffat, Amanda Mueller, Brianna Norris, Anna Norris, Kyle Pesek, Sara Ramsey, Kelly Richardson, Ryan Schrack, Kyle Stirewalt, Megan Vokal.

Benedict: Shawna Hanson.

Bennet: Stephen Luebker, William Scheideler.

Bennington: Elizabeth Bang, Denver Klaus, Derek Stevens.

Bertrand: Laura Hock.

Blair: Andrew Barnhill, Rachel Foley, Eric Johnson, Vincent Lau, Matthew Lawrence, Taylor Santos.

Bloomfield: Christopher Rodenborg.

Burwell: Jordan Klimek.

Callaway: Natasha Dodge.

Colon: Ian Hoppe.

Columbus: Brian Cleary, Kathleen Irby, Daniel Kuehler, Samantha Lord, William Stanton, James Trenhaile.

Cozad: Kyle Gibbens, Brittany Morse.

Creston: Jamie Olmer.

Crete: Sarah Lothrop, Samantha Renker.

Culbertson: Matthew Carriker.

David City: Morgan Otte.

Denton: Evan Brown, Marisa Esch.

Eagle: Jessah Hofker.

Elkhorn: Allison Drain, Bethany Drain, Zachary Tejral, Joseph Tucker, Laura Warburton.

Elmwood: Marcus Winter.

Firth: Jami Pritschau.

Fremont: Phil Bakken, Christine Bauer, Holly Bussa, Timothy Ciochon, Shane Cox, Allison Hanen, Megan Kassmeier, Tyler Ketchem, Nathan Samuelson, Caitlin Schultz, Jourdon Winterstein.

Friend: Kalyssa Hoefer.

Gothenburg: Erin Jobman.

Grand Island: David Bauer, Kara Brostrom, Curtis Gnewuch, Kevin Goshorn, Margaret Gregory, Amber Kunze, Tiara Kush, Bryan Lewis, Sara Petska, Tyler Sprunk, Hannah Swanson.

Grant: Lance Glunz.

Gretna: Paige Bockman, Michelle Koke, Brent Luedders, Joseph Menousek, Jason Sudrla.

Hampton: Whitney Ruybalid.

Hartington: Adam Burbach, Tyler Meirose.

Hastings: Micah Cermak, Emily Pernicek, Summer Schmidt, Elizabeth Urrutia.

Hickman: Amanda Hagstrom, Craig Price.

Hildreth: Gavin Blum.

Holdrege: Matthew Kreutzer, Ian Vosburg.

Holland: Evan Marolf.

Humboldt: Joseph Maschman.

Indianola: Amy Been.

Juniata: Addison Heeren.

Kearney: Brett Armstrong, Alissa Burchell, Annah Buss, Molly Heeney, Michael Klinginsmith, John McCoy, Jordan Moncrief, Peter Niedbalski.

Kennard: Katherine Andersen.

LaVista: William Sedlacek.

Lawrence: Amber Himmelberg.

Lincoln: Neema Bahramzad, Kelsey Baker, Hannah Baker, McRae Bell, Julia Blum, Benjamin Bond, Laura Booton, John Borstelmann, Ben Breckbill, Katherine Byers, Collin Calvert, Matthew Claycomb, Michael Crelin, Ashley Crowder, Nicholas Doty, Natasha Doty, Joseph Dougherty, Sarah Entzminger, Grace Farley, Rachel Gibson, Derek Guenther, Ngoc Ha, Jake Hedgecock, Eric Hess, Eric Hinz, Derek Hupp, Andrew Ide, Ashley Janssen, Ellie Johnson, Lindsey Jones, Bilal Kamal, Leah Keralis, Christopher Killingsworth, Ben Kotopka, Melanie Kottwitz, Hannah Lambert, William Lefferts, Lindsay Leikam, Alexandria Lierz, Natalie Lips, William Lonn, Caitlin Lukin, Benjamin Magstadt, Jacob Marvin, Christina Mayer, Casey McCullen, Carson McNeil, Nicholas Miller, Mary Moore, Eric Mooring, Christie Morton, Cara Nickolaus, Nathan O'Keefe, John Olson, Camila Orti, Michaela Patt, Austin Peterson, Courtney Powers, Max Rodenburg, Justin Rosenbohm, Lauren Roth; Sinan Sayood, Faith Schell, Benjamin Schoeneberger, Jason Schrad, Kelsey Scott, Amanda Sedor, Bradley Sedor, Eric Shuman, Danielle Simpson, Mong-Kuen Sun, Natalie Svoboda, Thomas Swanson, Elizabeth Tasler, Clay Upton, Michael Varilek, Mikayla Wagner, Kyle Weber, Blake Wewel, Jordan Wiebe, Carly Williams, Robert Williams, Alan Xu, Luke Yarabe, Paul Yarabe, Zhiyi Zhang, Daniel Zhou.

Long Pine: Chad Mizner.

McCook: Corinne O'Dea, Molly Peck.

Meadow Grove: Steph Smolek.

Milford: Sarah Weber.

Minatare: Amanda Miller.

Mitchell: Kyra Townsend.

Murdock: Jonathan Luetchens.

Nebraska City: Rachel Lynn, Sara Shinn.

Neligh: Christina Kuhfal.

Norfolk: Mitchell Chlopek, Trevor Freudenburg, Preston Sunderman.

North Bend: Melanie Hall.

North Platte: Hannah Baldridge, Huan He.

Oakland: Aaron Daberkow.

Omaha: Christopher Adams, Alec Agan, Mohammed Ali, Kyle Andersen, Parker Anderson, Swara Bajpai, Margaret Baker, Elisa Banninga, Bethany Battafarano, Thomas Belatti, Joseph Benak, Kayla Benker, Erin Borchers, Brian Bossert, John Bowen, Michael Bristol, Mary Brosnihan, Zachary Burklund, Michaela Burns, Peter Burton, Jessica Cannon, Samuel Carey, Jacob Carlson, Jing Chen, Bianca Christensen, Ruth Cumberland-Markey, Olivia Daniel, John Den Hartog, Chris Dessonville, Bailey Dilocker, Robert Dooling, Alex Estes, Rachel Estes, Caitlin Fee, Katie Fennelly, Garret Fosmer, Jacob Francis Campbell, Blake Fredrickson, Susan Freeman, Sarah Fulton, Mary Gambrel, Raymond Gasper, Mitchell Gocke, Claire Goodwillie, Anna Gronewold, Amanda Gum, Ryan Hafner, Alexander Hake, Zoha Haroon, Drew Heckman, Lauren Higgins, Bethany Holloway, Zachariah Horrum, Bradley Hugenroth, Samuel Hulbert, Ellen Illg, Travis Jackson, Cecilia Jensen, Benjamin Kammerer, Taylor Kelly, Rosemary Kelly, Luke Keohane, Rickard King, Douglas Knickrehm, Anna Kokensparger, Madeline Kramper, Monica Krause, Molly Kremen; Ian Langin, Jacob Lee, Tyler Lerdahl, Skyler Lewis, Young Liu, John Lloyd, Elisabeth Loeck, Matthew Loeffelholtz, Paul Lord, Collin Lundgren, Timothy Lundy, Kaitlin Mazour, Elizabeth McCue, Amanda McIntyre, Ethan McKean, Anna Meier, Dryden Meints, Garret Menard, Emily Mitchell, Joe-Ann Moser, Ryan Muehling, Daniel Mulhall, Michael Mumaugh, Stephanie Muschall, Maggie Nagengast, Evan Nash, Matthew Naven, Stephanie Nelson, Lauren Nelson, Brian Nevole, Jonathan Nichols, Reanna Nicholsen, Martha Nielsen, Madeline Novoa, Matthew Novotny, Sarah O'Connor, Alexandra Olmsted, James Owens, Caleb Peterson, Gabrielle Peterson, John Pflug, Brittany Phillips, Tessa Phillips, Justina Piatek, Alexander Pieper, Michelle Polich, Benjamin Polk, Sean Prince, John Rasmussen, Daniel Reiff, Daniel Rerucha, Nicholas Robine, Michael Roccaforte, Lauren Schaal, Claire Schlessinger, Patrick Schneider, Michael Schreier, Matthew Schuetz, Ygal Schuller, Megan Seymour, Cain Silvey, Priya Sirohi, Sarah Sirotkin, Jane Smith, Chance Solem-Pfeifer, Priya Srivats, Alexander Stopak, Benjamin Susman, William Switzer, Michael Taylor, Jaime Thomas, Katherine Thorson, Kristine Tippin, Ryan Tomlinson, Caitlin Toohey, Samantha Treinen, Megan Turco, Jonathan Von Kampen, Katelyn Vrtiska, Michael Walsh, Anne Wang, Kristina Ward, Luke Weitkemper, Whitney Welch, Kevin Wells, Emily West, Daniel Whitaker, Logan White, Jonah Williams, David Wilson, Bradley Winkelbauer, Kristin Wipfler, Emi Young, Sineah Young, Abigail Zadina.

Ord: Amanda Duvall.

Orleans: Jacob Stoelting.

Osmond: Brady Ketelsen, Paige Reikofski, Brandon Weeder.

Palmyra: Dillon Jones.

Papillion: Patrick Brennan, William Cordwin, Michael Dijak, Brian Furby, Megan Furcini, Benjamin Hanig, Joshua Harnisch, Isaac Inungaray, Katherine Kramer, Stephen Meissner, Glenn Murray, Jessie Plumb, Cory Prelerson, Jessie Ren, James Rowe, David Seeger, Kara Williams.

Pickrell: James Higgins.

Pierce: Chays Ronspies.

Plainview: Trey Boyer.

Plattsmouth: Gregory Stevens.

Plymouth: Karen Jantzen.

Ralston: Zachary Harvat, Zachary O'Reilly.

Saronville: Taylor Schlautman.

Scottsbluff: Kari Holmes, Joseph Kozal, Molly Meister, Kaci Ritterbush, Sandra Shedd, Morgan Weitzel.

Seward: Clint Aegerter, Theresa Honeycutt, John Wiemer.

South Sioux City: Dillon Lieber.

Springfield: Jessica Jensen, Elizabeth Lachnit.

Sutton: Samantha Overturf.

Taylor: Michael White.

Tecumseh: Kaci Wolken.

Tilden: Danielle Larson.

Valentine: Jason Schubauer.

Walthill: Shelby Beaudette.

Waterloo: Natalie Gorup .

Wausa: Kayla Kumm.

Waverly: Hannah Althouse, Rebecca Bevans, Gunner Brown.

Weeping Water: Bryan Bailey.

Wilcox: Kirk Harms.

Wisner: Ross Jensen.

Wood River: Abbie Davis.

York: Melissa Eichinger, Brett Grieb.

Yutan: Andrea Neukirch, Paige Schnoes.