Mason High School announces 33 seniors as National Merit semifinalists
Thirty-three Mason High School seniors are among 192 named National Merit Semifinalists in the TriState.
They are among 16,000 semifinalists named by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. The students represent less than one percent of seniors from across the nation and include the highest scoring teens on the 2020 preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
“These Comets have accomplished so much while also going to school during a global pandemic,’’ said Bobby Dodd, Mason High School’s principal.
“We appreciate that not only do these bright students do well in their classes and on the PSAT, they are also leaders in our community, school activities, sports, and performing arts.”
Besides Mason, three other southwest Ohio high schools had 10 or more semifinalists: Walnut Hills, 16; Sycamore, 13; and Turpin, 10.
About 15,000 of the semifinalists are expected to advance to the finalist level in February. That makes them eligible for $2,500 scholarships awarded by National Merit and other scholarships awarded to semifinalists by colleges, universities, and businesses.
Altogether, about 7,500 scholarships worth more than $30 million are expected to be awarded in four increments between April and July 2021.
The semifinalists, listed by state, county, and high school, are:
OHIO SEMIFINALISTS
Butler County
Badin: Case Trokhan
Lakota West: Ian Collamer, Sohom Dey, Ananya Goel, Ryan Sippy, Yash Tibrewal
Madison: Hayden Cole
Talawanda: Michelle Miao, Julia Peter, Daryl Zazycki
Clermont County
Batavia: Sophia Biernat
Milford: Ayla Grabenbauer, Maya Roediger
HAMILTON COUNTY
Anderson: Andrew Kaeppner
Cincinnati Country Day: Christian Fitzpatrick, Pooja Kantemneni, Victor Nica, Alistir Norwood, Margaret Sprigg-Dudley
Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy: Connor Espenshade, Will Rueter, Ava Schwan, Luke Kikkema
Harrison: Adam Evanson
Indian Hill: Julianne Allspatch, Anne Joy, Nikhil Nayak, Ryan Rammacher, Hannah Tran, Kathy Zhao
Loveland: Jeremy Case, Alexander Harlow, Nicole Pedicini
Madeira: Henry Manning, Niklas Polanco, Rene Polanco, Steven Schwallie
Mariemont: Andrew Cheri, Alexandra Purdy
McNicholas: Ethan Koran, Erin McManus, Jason Munzel
Mercy McAuley: Rose Hewald, Ellye Steinberg
Moeller: August Antaki
Mount Notre Dame: Rachel Hennessy
Oak Hills: Mason Bencurik
Schilling School for Gifted Children: Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson, James Shoemaker
School of Creative and Performing Arts: Lincoln Lundgren
Seven Hills: Kevin Chen, Sarah Croog, Kathryn Guo, Jenny Hu, Roberto Ligeralde, Naina Purushothaman, Sebastian Rodriguez, Manan Vij
St. Ursula Academy: Bryn Connelly, Laura Fitzpatrick, Margaret Ragland, Amanda Serger
St. Xavier: Henry Berry, Noah Burkhardt, David Clark, Calogero Fiorito, Jackson Glass, Nicholas Gockerman, Aarav Kukreja, Mwenda Mbui, Dominic Olaguera-Delogu
Summit Country Day: Carter Bibler, Parker Bricking, Irene Calderon, James Fraley, Margaret McNabb, Keenan Schomburger, Jennifer Sullivan
Sycamore: Madison Boni, Pierce Bruner, Kevin Dong, Jake Hertzman, Anelisa Kim, Kasey Lowe, Benjamin Lu, Reece Pandilidis, Vivian Qian, Megan Radakovich, Maya Sethuraman, Joshua Willis, Alexondra Xie
Taylor: Lee Garber-Ford, Anthony Martini
Turpin: Adam Barrett, Joshua Blavat, Fausta Fenner, Lauren Ferguson, Jonathan Lee, Jeffrey Logan, Claire Mengel, Matthew Osterlund, Elissa Ward, Patricia Wells
Ursuline Academy: Berkley Dixon
Walnut Hills: Julia Berman, Justin Chan, Blaise Colberg-Harding, Katherine Dipaola, Maxwell Fairman, John Fox, Lillian Johnson, Husna Khan, Ainsley Lauer, Benjamin Liu, Claire Meng, William Menz, Daniel Murray, Corina Phalen, John Reed, William Stoffregen
Wyoming: Thompson Blade, Samuel Easton, Sandhya Iyer, Paul Rutherford
Warren County
Fenwick: Nathan Beatty, Keenan Norton, Maxwell Vendely
Homeschool: Emmett Bicknell
Kings: Katherine Gabert, Carson Miller, John Ulm
Little Miami: Dakota Baldwin, Madelyn Highfield, Ryan Houser, Emily Yeung
Mason: Ayra Abid, Sankalp Agrawal, Shishir Annamaneni, Kunal Arora, Humza Asgher, Ravi Bandaru, Caroline Bishop, Haarika Bondalapati, Timothy Brewer, Diego Fortson, Anish Gangavaram, Bignesh Ganji, Harrison Geiser, Neev Gupta, Yuandi Huang, Max Keck, William Lee, Jessica Li, Inesh Loka, Sarah Lyons, Om Muthyala, Vansh Patel, Reva Reddy, Ameya Saraf, Nischal Suhas, Aryan Tadwalkar, Shivanshi Tandon, Nishita Tonangi, Luke Trenaman, Nikith Vangala, Vidyhaath Vedati, Ananya Viswanathan, Adam Weaver
Springboro: Jacob Balek, Alexander Derosa, Hannah Johnson, John Kamosh, Xander Lewis, Brady Virtue
Waynesville: Andrew Weaver
KENTUCKY
Beechwood: Abigail Jones
Campbell County: Noah Coronado, Anna Morris
Cooper: Zackery Banish
Covington Catholic: Samuel Epplen
Covington Latin: Jacob Schuetter
Highlands: Logan Walsh, Katherine Wilson
Ryle: Maxwell Arsenault, Angelina Harris, Renae Kopser, Jack Tagher
St. Henry: Peter Constant
Villa Madonna: Benjamin Dropic
INDIANA
East Central: Lillian Crouse, Paige Lyness