KU honors 265 seniors from Johnson county high schools
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.