UNL recognizes Distinguished Scholars of 2012

Lincoln, Neb., November 9th, 2012 —

         The University of Nebraska-Lincoln recognized top Nebraska high school seniors for their academic excellence Oct. 30 at the 2012 Distinguished Scholars Recognition Dessert Reception. 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 Distinguished Scholars Recognition Dessert Reception at the Nebraska Union culminated a full day of events for the 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 to campus resources.

            Following is a list of Distinguished Scholars by school (the student's hometown is included in parentheses where it differs from the name of the school):

            Ainsworth: Conner Kozisek.

            Allen: Hannah Finnegan (Newcastle).

            Alliance: Kacey Horn.

            Arlington: Austin Sampson.

            Ashland-Greenwood: Lily Sundermeier (Greenwood), Amanda Washburn (Ashland), Kylie Washburn (Greenwood).

            Auburn: Sofia Giles-Hnida.

            Aurora: Julia Sullivan.

            Battle Creek: Courtney Fuks, Driana Garcia (Meadow Grove).

            Beatrice: Travis Eubanks.

            Bellevue East: Ryan Boyland, Chayce Kenny, Kyle Kenny, Hannah Peck, Zachary Smith, Michaela Sullivan.

            Bellevue West: Alexander Gangwish, Kevin Hanna, Maxwell Lydiatt, Ashley Weed.

            Bennington: Jacob Bliss, Jacob Greenwood, Tyler Stansberry.

            Blair: Seth Berggren, Amy Demers, Ashley Jennings (Fort Calhoun), Ryan Jensen, Alexander Johnson, Matthew Martens, Deidre Sandall.

            Bloomfield: Dakota Burgerhoff.

            Boone Central: Eleanor Wagner (Petersburg).

            Broken Bow: Levi French, Alyssa Hunt.

            Centennial: Dalton Dey (Gresham).

            Central City: Amanda Dale.

            Central City Nebraska Christian: Kimberly Deichmann, Jahn Landrigan (Broken Bow).

            Centura: Nathan Heinz (Cairo).

            Chadron: Lane Chasek, Terran Merriman-Honerkamp, Dillon Vogt.

            Chambers: Corbin Rasmussen (O'Neill).

            Clearwater: Travis Martin (Orchard).

            Columbus: Madison Burger, Jacob Jenson, Patrick Keep, Victoria Mckinney, Cody Myers, Kelsy Neil, Fayth Ryan, Amanda Sealock.

            Columbus Scotus: Derek Lahm, Ian Robak, Tara Starzec, Austin Wendt, Charrissa Zuerlein (Bellwood).

            Council Bluffs St. Albert: Faye Assmann (Omaha).

            Crete: Alexis Page.

            Crofton: Brayton Hagge (Fordyce).

            Cross County: Caleb Tweeten (Stromsburg).

            Douglas County West: Colin Schnoes (Yutan).

            Elkhorn: Andrew Berger, Drew Dudley, Jesse Elser, Karl Frazier, Sawyer Nietfeld, Colton Roessner, Leanna Willer.

            Elkhorn Mount Michael: John Choi, Peter DeWald (Omaha), Hunter Hottovy (Waterloo), Joseph Kucirek (Omaha), Paul Kujawa (Omaha).

            Elkhorn South: Kyle Cook, Connor Dietrich, Vaishnavi Ganesan, Lindsey Hollmann, Justin Isaacson, Blake Johnson, Garrett Kraudy, Cameron Maciejewski, Elyse Mancuso, Mallorie Wright.

            Elmwood-Murdock: Stephan Stout (Louisville).

            Eustis-Farnam: Hunter Ringenberg (Johnson Lake).

            Exeter-Milligan: Blake Papik (Exeter), Jennifer Pribyl (Milligan).

            Franklin: Joshua Siel.

            Fremont: Davis Batten, James Howard, Jesse Kramme, Emily Krohn, Jacob Pribnow Ames, LaVonne Reed, Shannon Rezac, Rachel Samuelson, Sebastian Sorensen, Donald Steffensmeier, Trevor Wiegert.

            Fremont Bergan: Thomas Fryklind.

            Gordon-Rushville: Sara Marlatt (Gordon).

            Gothenburg: Morgan Kowalewski.

            Grand Island: Olivia Exstrum, Preston Fegley, Daniel Hauschild, Kali Kohlhof, Jordan McElligott, Riley Menagh.

            Grand Island Central Catholic: Taylor Hayes, Jacob Jarecke, Catherine Sokol.

            Gretna: Anna Elbracht, Elise Gahan (Omaha), Andrew Osborn.

            Hartington: Rachel Flaugh.

            Hartington Cedar Catholic: Katelyn Dickes (Fordyce).

            Hastings: Adam Heyen, Grace Kelly, Trevor Rosno, Alyssa Ziemba.

            Hastings St. Cecilia: Olivia Thomas.

            Heartland: Ashley Quiring (Henderson).

            Home school: Grace Eckstrom (Stanton), Josiah Krutz (Omaha), Carl Rohman (Lincoln), James Waters (Papillion).

            Homer: Abigail Hall (Hubbard).

            Kearney: Steven Lesher, Timothy Smith, Derrick Williams, Alexander Woodside.

            Kearney Catholic: Michael Jensen.

            Laurel-Concord: Katie Gubbels (Laurel), Ryan Lunz (Laurel).

            Lawrence-Nelson: Levi Schroer (Nelson).

            Lincoln Christian: Sara Gronewold, Andrea Jones, Joel Mohrmann, Susanna Zach.

            Lincoln East: Rahmeen Bahramzad, Benjamin Bradley, Casey Christensen, Steven Christy, Nolan Cooney, Melanie Heermann, Timothy Kubert, Nikolas Leger, Jennifer Matthes, Kailee Pedersen, Makenzie Petersen, Brady Pramberg, Ravi Raghani, Thomas Rasmussen, Victoria Schlitt, Micah Summerlin, Nathaniel Wei, Abigail Wild.

            Lincoln High: Gage Niemann, Astrid Ramsay (Roca), Itahi Sanchez, Shawn Wimer.

            Lincoln Lutheran: Holly Atterbury, Hannah Bell, Rachel Meinke, Clara Rich.

            Lincoln North Star: Marissa Schild, Megan Woodard.

            Lincoln Northeast: Kasi Abbenhaus, Dakoda Kilzer, Pamela McLeod, Tanner Pfeiffer, Breanna Traupe.

            Lincoln Pius X: Dale Allder, Samuel Baker, Sheila Boothe, Ellen Cook, Jayme Cox (DeWitt), Mary Driewer, Robert Gibson, Rose Medill, Benjamin Swanson, Jordan Verplank.

            Lincoln Southeast: Noah Eno, Nathaniel Furr, Bailey Heil, Anna Higgins, Madison Joutras, Avi Knecht, Eileen McLean, Daniel Pacheco Ceballo, Andrew Peterson, Luke Peterson, Tyler Rediger, Matthew Strasburger, Andrew Arkebauer.

            Lincoln Southwest: Jackson Bauer, Maranda Frey, Nicholas Knopik, Ashlyn Lee, Hunter Miller, Pujaa Rajan.

            Logan View: Dylan Dam (Hooper).

            Louisville: Jordan Beck, Kathryn Edwards.

            Malcolm: Mikayla Locke.

            McCook: Veronica Bair (Culbertson), Cashous Bortner, Kelsey Siebrandt.

            Meridian: Desiree Bartels (Tobias).

            Milford: Julia Mitchell (Beaver Crossing), Aaron Steckly.

            Millard North: Nabilaa Azimi, Katherine Baxter, Brett Begley, Yasmeen Bora, Tyler Chen, Hannah Christian, Katherine Downey, Cole Edick (Waterloo), Cale Ewald, Jeanette Fendrick, Emma Flynn, Curtis Focht, Nathan Ghanavati, Kristen Gjesdahl, Christian Hanson, Max Headlee, Mitchell Hineline, Jacob Hock, Garrett Hoie, Rohan Khazanchi, David Kreis, Victoria Longley, Collin Macdonald, Emma Mazour, Kelson McCollum, Jesse Mu, Mark Peters, Daniel Reumund, Samantha St. Clair, Allison Schlender, Allyson Shirley, Shashwat Sitesh, Nathan Tibbels, Davis Vinckier, Vaibhav Viswanathan, Peter Xu, Tailong Xu.

            Millard South: Jared Hill, Cole Nardini, Allison Nichols, Kimberly Sharp.

            Millard West: Samantha Anderson, Caleb Ashton, Stephen Bloom, Mitchell Bruckner, Asmini KC, Dylan King, Neil Morrissette, James Pettay, John Spady, Amanda Van Sant, Zachary Wagner, Caitlin Welty, Samuel Wendt.

            Minden: Alex Raun.

            Morrison Academy: Manizha Kholmatov (Lincoln).

            Mother of Divine Grace: Matthew Anderson (Bellevue), Mariah Ayers (Omaha).

            Mullen: Matthew Furrow.

            Nebraska City Lourdes: James O'Neil (Dunbar).

            Norfolk: Bret Evert, Jonathan Ingram.

            Norfolk Catholic: Peter Lux, Amy Miller, Brennan Roche.

            Norris: Elli Dearmont (Hickman), Shelby Dorn (Beatrice), Hanna Flamme (Lincoln), Jared Kaser (Lincoln), Rachel Kechely (Roca), Anthony Mainelli (Roca), Janelle Mitchell (Roca), Luke Monhollon (Roca).

            North Platte: Thomas Beckmann, Trevor Smith.

            North Platte St. Patrick: Adam Pasquinelly, Margaret Vinton.

            Omaha Brownell-Talbot: Alison Brockman, Andrew Chen, Emma Hussain, Zhiyu Liu.

            Omaha Burke: Austin Derby, Hannah Evans, Joseph Gomez, Scott Irvin, Matthew Kent, Caroline McLeese, Aaron Zipursky.

            Omaha Central: Lauren Bandel, Violet Brusnahan, Ross Harding, Clara Harlow, Maureen Kalkowski-Farra, Clare Patterson, Madelyn Pospisil, Marika Svolos, Giselle Tran, Evan White, Avery Zaleski.

            Omaha Christian Academy: Jack Medlin.

            Omaha Concordia: Jonathon Misiewicz (Bellevue).

            Omaha Creighton Prep: Tobin Brown, Sean Brudney, Matthew Cervantes (Papillion), Samuel Davey, Patrick Fisher, Ryan Forney, Joseph Gehringer, Jonathan Henderson, Connor Kerschinske, Jackson Koehler, Sean Kuehl, Jonathon Latka, Robert Leddy, Alexander Lester (Papillion), Andrew McIntosh (Papillion), Nicholas Mullen, Nikolaos Piperis, John Porter Jr., Cameron Troshynski.

            Omaha Duchesne: Catherine Carroll, Zoe Cohen, Emily Crnkovich, Jaclyn Grode, Erica Hedrick, Gina Keplinger, Erin Laughlin, Margaret Marx, Anna Petrow (Elkhorn), Olivia Straka, Melissa Ulrich (La Vista), Pooja Varman.

            Omaha Gross: Kevin Humlicek (Bellevue), Paige Krupa, Sami Morford, Jessica Wilson (Papillion).

            Omaha Marian: Kathryn Blaser, Megan Han, Elizabeth Hupp, Emily Mccusker, Nicola McCutcheon, Michaela Smith, Claire Sonderman, Megan Woodruff.

            Omaha Mercy: Abigail Culp (Bellevue), Emily Dyer (Elkhorn), Allie Hennes, Jennifer Novotny.

            Omaha North: Steven Hansen, John Heires, Douglas Rowen, Austin Schmidt.

            Omaha Northwest: Connor Bergin.

            Omaha Roncalli: James Bilek, Anthony Kitt.

            Omaha Skutt: Mackenzie Hagge, Benjamin Harrison, Kathryn Kerins, Clare Koneck-Wilcox, Abigail Krone, Zachary Legband, Margaret Moore, Ann Moylan, Hannah Parry, Brenna Rossi.

            Omaha Westside: Taylor Bosch, Grant Duin, Ellen Frederickson, Aaron Glazer, Joe Hack, Carolyn Hanus, Gabriel Levin, Andrew McVea, Mackenzie Mikkelsen (Bennington), Margaret Novoa, Matthew ODell.

            Osmond: Laurel Krohn.

            Papillion-La Vista: Trevor Borer (Papillion), Mark Casper (Papillion), Michael Casper (Papillion), Jacqueline Florick (Papillion), Alison Legett (Papillion), Connor McLaughlin (La Vista), Alyx Olney (La Vista), Michael Sempek (Omaha), Mark Tentinger (La Vista), Daniel Woodworth (Papillion).

            Papillion-La Vista South: Nicholas Brockman (Papillion), Cassandra Cosimi (Bellevue), Alexandria Curttright Omaha, Nicole Eagin (Papillion), Daniel Forsyth (Papillion), Krysten Fries (Bellevue), Hannah Guritz (Papillion), Justin Hanig (Papillion), Elizabeth Lapke (Papillion), Jackson Lawrence (Papillion), Joshua Mueller (Bellevue), Nathan Nordbrock (Papillion), Justin Qualls (Bellevue), Ashley Saxe (Bellevue), Rachel Stack (Papillion), Elizabeth Stanton (Papillion), Matthew Trail (Papillion), Zachary Trail (Papillion), Megan Yank (Papillion).

            Pender: Benjamin Burmester, Rebecca Dahlman (Thurston).

            Pierce: Austin Unseld.

            Platteview: Jessica Bargstadt (Omaha).

            Plattsmouth: Trevor Steinkruger (Bellevue).

            Ponca: Christiana O'Neill (Jackson).

            Ralston: Serenity McAndrews, Christopher Petersen (La Vista), Jacob Quint (Omaha), Kyle Sramek (Omaha).

            Raymond Central: Tanner Rasmussen (Ceresco).

            Saint Edward: Dylan Haas.

            Sandhills: Taylor Marten (Halsey).

            Sandy Creek: Andrew Kuta (Edgar), Austin Nacke (Clay Center).

            Scottsbluff: Derrick Goss, Michael Hadden, Tyler Mickey, Katelyn Nyers (Minatare), Allison Stricker.

            Seward: Zachary Bruick, Sarah Moody.

            Shelton: Cynthia Garcia, Ruben Meza, Dailim Ramos.

            Southern Valley: Alicia Lambert (Beaver City).

            Southwest: Blake Storrs (McCook).

            Stanton: Justin Aaberg, Zachary Doffin.

            Sterling: Allison Porter.

            Stuart: Caitlin Kunz.

            Tri County: Megan Stokebrand (De Witt).

            Valentine: Kassidy Linabery.

            Waverly: Tanner Buresh (Lincoln), Eric Herr (Lincoln), Bailey Rosecrans (Walton).

            West Holt: Cole Gibbens (Atkinson).

            West Point: Jonathon Jahnke (Bancroft).

            Wisner-Pilger: Cody Callies (Wisner).

            York: Alexandra Dickinson, Parker Johnson, Jacob Weskamp.

            Yutan: Jordan Roth.