KU honors 265 seniors from Johnson county high schools


Tue, 11/08/2016

author

Jennifer Jackson Sanner

LAWRENCE — Students from 11 Kansas high schools were honored Nov. 7 by the University of Kansas Alumni Association and KU Endowment.

A total of 265 seniors from high schools in Johnson County were recognized for their academic achievements and named Kansas Honor Scholars at a program and reception at Blue Valley Southwest High School, 17600 Quivira Road, Overland Park.

Since 1971, the Kansas Honors Program has recognized over 125,000 scholars who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school senior classes and are selected regardless of occupational plans or higher education goals. Each year, the KU Alumni Association and its volunteers host 36 programs that reach all 105 counties across the state and include approximately 360 high schools.

During the ceremony, each student will receive a Webster’s New College Dictionary.

Bernadette Gray-Little, KU chancellor, spoke to the students and their parents and guests.

Community volunteers collect reservations, coordinate details and serve as local contacts for the event. Anne and Bill Blessing, of Leawood, are the site and county coordinators.

The Kansas Honors Program is made possible by KU Endowment and proceeds from the Jayhawk license plate program. The Class of 2017 scholars are:

Johnson

 

Bishop Miege High School

Natalie Burton - Shawnee

Abigail Byrd - Kansas City

Seulji Choi - Lenexa

John Emory - Prairie Village

Peter Fontaine - Mission

Lilian Gibson - Prairie Village

Cailey Grunhard - Mission Hills

Bridget Hannon - Mission

William Hanson-Regan - Kansas City

Jake Heyen - Prairie Village

Rachel Holterman - Overland Park

Erin Kellerman - Leawood

Luke McCool - Prairie Village

Marissa Moreno - Kansas City

Audrey Parra - Fairway

Joseph Pedrotti - Fairway

Elaine Pope - Overland Park

Mary Rielley - Overland Park

Claire Smeltzer - Prairie Village

Camryn Tornquist - Leawood

Chloe Tremain - Mission

 

Blue Valley High School

Arslan Ali - Overland Park

Sarah Baghdadi - Leawood

Ariana Cecil - Leawood

Alexander Chamberlin - Overland Park

Alec Delapena - Overland Park

Maggie Draper - Overland Park

Colin Floyd - Overland Park

Ashley Frost - Leawood

Katie Gemperli - Leawood

Regan Hamilton - Overland Park

Megan Hegarty - Leawood

Siddhanth Hegde - Leawood

Jacob Howey - Overland Park

Siao-Han Huang - Overland Park

Walter Huber - Overland Park

Lorna Hurt - Overland Park

John Johnston - Overland Park

Kelsey Kinkade - Leawood

Haylea Mikuls - Leawood

Andrea Mundakkal - Leawood

Nathan Niederhauser - Overland Park

Adam Owens - Overland Park

Evan Phillips - Overland Park

Wynne Reddin - Leawood

Victoria Roggy - Overland Park

Samuel Rosenbaum - Overland Park

Grace Salts - Overland Park

Andrew Schifman - Leawood

Ryan Schmidt - Leawood

Elizabeth Schrader - Overland Park

Lauren Stubbs - Overland Park

Maci Virgillito            - Stilwell

Megan Vorhies - Leawood

Alex Wang - Leawood

Sarah Weinand - Overland Park

Evan Whited - Overland Park

Sarah Wilkinson - Overland Park

 

Blue Valley North High School

Noora Batrash - Overland Park

Mary Bergwell - Overland Park

Wei Dai - Leawood

Jeffrey Degasperi - Overland Park

Anastasia Dmitrienko - Overland Park

Davis Engle - Overland Park

Mahgol Golshani - Overland Park

Archita Goyal - Overland Park

Miles Green - Leawood

Roxanna Hamidpour - Leawood

Grant Harvey - Overland Park

Margaret Hubble - Leawood

Yang Kelty - Overland Park

Sarah Knisely - Overland Park

Lauren Kostuke - Overland Park

Lucy Li - Overland Park

Julia Lytle - Leawood

Alexandra Miller - Overland Park

Matthew Miller - Leawood

Hannah Motley - Leawood

Deven Pandya - Leawood

Huisung Park - Overland Park

William Pope - Overland Park

Rachel Rhyner - Leawood

Maxwell Schanker - Overland Park

Nicholas Siscoe - Leawood

Marguerite Smith - Leawood

Anna Song - Leawood

Padmini Sreedhara - Leawood

Theodore Tai - Leawood

Robert Tenny - Leawood

Anja Tonkovic-Capin - Leawood

Samyukta Trikkur - Overland Park

Amy Wang - Overland Park

Anson Wang - Overland Park

 

Blue Valley Northwest High School

Ritu Agarwal - Overland Park

Ankush Bhat - Overland Park

Jennifer Chen - Overland Park

Alexis Fenton - Stilwell

Steve Gan - Overland Park

Paul Georgoulis - Overland Park

Ariel Glorsky - Overland Park

Jessica Greig - Overland Park

Sankalp Gupta - Overland Park

Arman Hadjian - Overland Park

Gage Hall - Overland Park

David Hawkins - Overland Park

Nathaniel Hofmann - Overland Park

Thomas Kim - Overland Park

Sofia-Vania Koleva - Overland Park

Morgan Lewis - Overland Park

Kuyun Liu - Overland Park

Tejas Mahabaleshwarkar - Overland Park

Jack McKenzie - Overland Park

Blair Meegan - Overland Park

Saisivani Narahari - Overland Park

Courtney Neilson - Overland Park

Amanda Nguyen - Overland Park

Riya Parikh - Overland Park

Nathanael Park - Overland Park

Mohammad Raheel - Overland Park

Flora Ravin - Overland Park

Cole Roatch - Overland Park

Carly Robinett - Overland Park

Parth Shah - Overland Park

Theresia Sharpe - Overland Park

Ryan Simeon - Overland Park

Peyton Threinen - Olathe

John Tran - Overland Park

Xiqing Wang - Overland Park

Anna Welsh - Overland Park

Megan Wickingson - Overland Park

Jonathan Zhang - Overland Park

 

Blue Valley Southwest High School

Donna Armstrong - Overland Park

Amira Bajracharya - Overland Park

Thorne Banks - Stilwell

Kate Bowling - Overland Park

Lauren Burrow - Overland Park

Danielle Dragovich - Olathe

Abigail Fry - Overland Park

Evan Haas - Bucyrus

Lillian Hoffart - Overland Park

Matthew Jaeschke - Overland Park

Alexa Kathol - Overland Park

Jack Kennedy - Olathe

Anh Lai - Olathe

Eunice Lee - Overland Park

Delaney Oliver - Olathe

Emily Magness - Olathe

Konrad Marshall - Overland Park

Finn Murohy - Olathe

Cameron Richey - Overland Park

Emma Rose - Overland Park

Alllayna Schuemann - Stilwell

Lauren Semple - Overland Park

Olivia Swyers - Overland Park

Aashka Varma - Overland Park

Katherine Wasmer - Olathe

Renita Wilson - Olathe

Lansten Yew - Overland Park

Dean Ziegelman - Olathe

 

Blue Valley West High School

Meera Aravinth - Overland Park

Apolonia Arteaga - Olathe

Madison Barker - Olathe

Daniel Birzer - Leawood

Cameron Bizal - Overland Park

Arden Brewer - Overland Park

Cameron Burris - Olathe

Zane Champie - Overland Park

Shelby Christopherson - Overland Park

Kate Cosentino - Overland Park

Nicole D'Souza - Overland Park

Kara Horning - Overland Park

Jennifer Huang - Overland Park

Jillian Hubbard - Overland Park

Rahim Hudda - Overland Park

Justice Jarvis - Overland Park

Eric Karney - Overland Park

Cody Kelemen - Olathe

Phillip Lin - Overland Park

Carson Lujin - Overland Park

Amukta Nuney - Overland Park

Sydney Schranz - Overland Park

Alexander Seager - Overland Park

Lauren Strohs - Overland Park

Tianyi Sun - Overland Park

Michael Svoren - Overland Park

Samuel Talkington - Overland Park

Julia Turner - Overland Park

Kevin Varghese - Overland Park

Tyler Wenzl - Overland Park

Gabrielle Windsor - Olathe

 

DeSoto High School

David Apple - De Soto

Rebecca Clancy - De Soto

Simon Couch - Shawnee

Liza Elwell - De Soto

Emily Euler - De Soto

Alyssa Hargrove - Shawnee

Sydney Hoover - Lenexa

Lucas Johnson - Shawnee

Sydney Jones - Shawnee

Nathan Kowynia - Shawnee

Daniel Lee - Shawnee

Gabrielle Mallozzi - Olathe

Caleb McQuality - De Soto

Rachel Payne - Shawnee

Tarah Phongsavath - Olathe

Mackenzie Smith - De Soto

David Spearman - Lenexa

Evan Sullivan - Shawnee

Abby Wagner - De Soto

Trevor Whitlow - Shawnee

Alex Wilcox - De Soto

 

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy

Alexis Davis – Overland Park

Leah Sosland – Kansas City

 

Kansas City Christian School

Samuel Coleman - Overland Park

Eleanor Dooley - Mission

Luke Rovenstine - Overland Park

Hogan Spencer - Prairie Village

 

Midland Adventist Academy

Estibaliz Vazquez - Shawnee

 

Mill Valley High School

Lauren Atchley - Shawnee

Elaina Bartlow - Shawnee

Margaret Bogart - Shawnee

Megan Breninger - Shawnee

Michaela Brown - Shawnee

Jacob Campbell - Shawnee

Jason Chen - Shawnee

Camden Davis - Shawnee

Jackson Flack - Shawnee

Maci Foerderer - Shawnee

Nathan Gawith - Shawnee

Adam Gillette - Shawnee

Dylan Gowin - Shawnee

Meg Green - Shawnee

Brooke Haring - Shawnee

Mason Haydock - Shawnee

Benjamin Hoepner - Shawnee

Kyle Kappes-Sum - Shawnee

Harmandeep Kaur - Shawnee

Sue Kim - Shawnee

Kacie Kinley - Shawnee

Jazz Loffredo - Shawnee

Samuel Lopez - Shawnee

Emma Mantel - Shawnee

Erika Marsh - Shawnee

Kara Mason - Shawnee

Thomas McClain - Shawnee

Anthony Meljanac - Shawnee

Cindy Meljanac - Shawnee

Jessica Mitchell - Shawnee

Sarah Morgan - Shawnee

Kaley Muir - Shawnee

Joseph Pentola - Shawnee

Gracie Pringle - Shawnee

Claire Rachwal - Shawnee

Victoria Robinson - Shawnee

Braden Rolig - Shawnee

Gabrielle Rossetti - Shawnee

Kristen Schau - Shawnee

Spencer Smith - Shawnee

Brooke Wiebe - Shawnee

Emma Wilhoit - Shawnee

Keegan Zars - Shawnee.

Tue, 11/08/2016

author

Jennifer Jackson Sanner

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