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Oct. 12, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elizabeth Haas Email: haase@lisd.net Phone: 469.948.8041

LISD ANNOUNCES 2012-2013 NATIONAL MERIT® SCHOLARS LEWISVILLE – Lewisville Independent School District (LISD) is proud to announce 280 high school students who were recently recognized for their outstanding academic achievement by The National Merit® Scholarship Program (NMSP), National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) and National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants (NAPOP). Eighty-one students were named National Merit® Semi-Finalist Scholars, 151 National Merit® Commended Scholars, eight National Achievement Scholars, 33 National Hispanic Scholars and seven National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants. The NMSP and its National Achievement® Scholarship Program (NASP) division recognize and provide scholarships to qualifying students. The NASP is reserved to provide recognition for outstanding African American high school students. NHRP is a division of The College Board whose mission is to recognize outstanding Hispanic and Latino high school students. In order to receive these prestigious designations, students must display outstanding academic achievement on the SAT/NMSQT® exam. The following pages list this year’s NMSP, NASP, NHRP and NAPOP scholars by high school. These students represent one-half of one percent of the nation’s high school graduates. “On behalf of LISD, we appreciate all of our students’ hard work and dedication. Students who receive any National Merit Scholar recognition should be congratulated for earning such a prestigious accomplishment,” LISD Superintendent Dr. Stephen Waddell said. For more information on the NMSP and NASP visit www.nationalmerit.org. For more information on the NHRP visit www.collegeboard.com.

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FLOWER MOUND HIGH SCHOOL

Flower Mound High School (FMHS) has the second largest number of students in the state to be recognized by the National Merit program.

FMHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists

Emylea Adams Stephen Adkison

Emily Becker Catherine Boutwell

Ethan Cannon Jimmy Cao

Grant Cogell John Hunter Davis

Allison Denton Daniel Desautels Mark Ditsworth Emily Erdman

Iris Fung Prakhar Garg

Danae Gleason

Andrew Graham Christopher Hergert

Joel Hicks Adeesh Jain

Gunnar James Aaron Johnson

Mitchell Johnson Solji Jung

Rachel Kennedy Aidan Kessler

Bryan Kim Matthew Larsen Reid Levenick

Michelle Lu Rachel MacAskill

Haley McNeese Scott Munro

Morgan Opgenorth Jamie Park

Kelsie Patterson Nicholas Prescott

Rafi Rashid Nisha Reddy Ankit Sharma Sangah Song Buck Starling

Aaron Tan Jennifer Teague

Shirley Zhu

FMHS National Merit® Commended Scholars

Briana Allmon Alexandria Altshuler

Megan Babovec Hyun Bang

Joshua Bennett Daniel Bertrand

Ameya Bhat Katrina Bouton

Sreenand Boddu Austin Berry

Ongwesa Bw Ogega Lauren Chapin

Sarah Christensen Megan Crafton

Laura Crick Patrick Curran Rohan Desai Jessica Falk

Lauren Garlington Dylan Glover

Matthew Gmitro Jaden Gorham

Lydia Gross

Alexandria Harris Meredith Hiles

Benjamin Hladky Brendan Honea

Clark Houser Victoria Hwang Jared Jenuwine

Alexander Kershner Sanketh Kichena

Susie Kim James Kuang Shilpa Kudva

Chase Lansdale Erin Layne Jewel Lee

Michaela Lee Joshua Levine

Austin Lew Nathan Liebsch

Xinlei Liu Priya Mathew

Andrew McRae Charleston Middleton

Taylor Nabors Divya Narayanan Addison Pattillo Samuel Pietsch

Jon Pladers Ramya

Ramachandran Maya Rao

Sairahul Saripella Ashish Saxena

Julianne Seykora Megan Shirley Jordan Sloan

Alexander Smith Timothy Suh

Cameron Sutherland Cassandra Tiel

Hannah Treasure Rachel Walther Thomas Watson Mitchell Webb

Michael Weingartner Conor Young

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FMHS National Achievement Scholars

Joshua Bennett

Ongwesa Bw Ogega Aaron Johnson

Scott Munro

FMHS National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants

Bianca Benefee Bryar Bennett

Faduma Nur Ahmad Price

Xavier Sykes

FMHS National Hispanic Recognition Program

Stephen Adkison

Briana Allmon Daniel Bertrand Gian Brazzini Patrick Curran

Cole Epperson Samuel Haimowitz

Jared Jenuwine Aaron Johnson Alexander Leon

Kaitlyn Montan Diego Palomarez

Sam Peitsch Nicholas Prescott

Marlise Stiles

FMHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists. See list above for names.

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FMHS Commended Scholars. See list above for names.

FMHS National Achievement Scholars. (From left) Ongwesa BwOgega,

Aaron Johnson, Joshua Bennett and Scott Munro.

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National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants (Front row from left) Xavier Sykes,

Faduma Nur, Bryar Bennett, (back row from left) Ahmad Price and Bianca Benefee.

FMHS NHRP Scholars. (Back Row from Left) Alex Leon, Stephen Adkinson, Gian Brazzini,

Patrick Curran, (Middle Row from Left) Daniel Bertrand, Briana Allmon, Nick Presscott, (Front Row from Left) Kaitlyn Montan, Marlise Stiles and Sam Haimowitz.

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HEBRON HIGH SCHOOL

HHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists

Seth Anderson Jade Connor

Michelle Grundstrom David Kim

Genevieve Korst Jamie Kunnappally

Marianne Lee Mouctika Paluri

Rachel Rosenberg Matthew Runyon

Dallas Schray Preston Young

HHS National Merit® Commended Scholars

Asha Abraham Cara Anderson

Julian Barta Ashley Cha

Jasmine Chan Benjamin Chilton Rahul Dadwani Vijay Dukkipati Jacob Epley

Jewel George Jay Jeon

Rachel Jones Sahil Kambhampaty

Lauren Koll Caroline Korst

Stephanie Lomax Fengyan Lu

Nicolas Lukic

Zainab Mamdani Zoe Meyer

Madeeha Mian Alec Nehlsen

Matthew Nguyen Marc Pasquale

Brian Shin Grant Wright

HHS National Achievement Scholars

Tiaunny Simmons

HHS National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) Scholars

Jasmine Chan

Christopher Gambini Oscar Martinez Andrea Rosics

Marissa Salazar Cassidy Thompson

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HHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists (Back row from left) Dallas Schray, Preston Young,

Matthew Runyon, Seth Anderson, (middle row from left) Rachel Rosenberg, Mouctika Paluri, Marianne Lee, Jamie Kunnappally, David Kim, (front row from left) Genevieve Korst, Jade Connor and

Michelle Grundstrom.

HHS National Merit® Commended Scholars (Front row from left) Asha Abraham, Shindy Lu, Stephanie

Lomax, Jasmine Chan, Ashley Cha, Cara Anderson, Jewel George, (second row from left) Zainab Mamdani, Emily Jones, Rachel Jones, Jacob Epley, Vijay Dukkipati, Caroline Korst, (third row from left)

Julian Barata, Lauren Koll, Zoe Meyer, Grant Wright, Benjamin Chilton, (fourth row from left) Alec Nehlsen, Nicolas Lukic, Rahul Dadwani, Sahil Kambhampaty, (fifth row from left) Jay Jeon, Marc

Pasquale, Fengyan Lu, Brian Shin and Matthew Nguyen.

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HHS NHRP Scholars (Front row from left) Cassidy Thompson, Andrea Rosics, Marissa Salazar, (back

row from left) Jasmine Chan, Christopher Gambini and Oscar Martinez.

LEWISVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

LHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists

Melania Amaya

Heidi Babin Jacob Halter Joanna Lee

LHS National Merit® Commended Scholars

Raylene Burnett

Hart Collier Alexis King

Donna Landreth

Samantha McNabb Shannon Roper

Leandra Stoddard Esther Son

Snowy Trowbridge Noah Vaughan

Ryan Walsh Melissa Wilkinson

LHS National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) Scholars

Zulema Alvarado Karina Ramirez

Leandra Stoddard

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LHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalist

(From left) Joanna Lee, Heidi Babin, Jacob Halter and Melania Amaya.

LHS National Merit® Commended Scholars (Back row from left) Melissa Wilkinson, Alexis King,

Leandra Stoddard, Noah Vaughan, Snowy Trowbridge, Hart Collier, (front row from left) Raylene Burnett, Ryan Walsh, Samantha McNabb, Donna Landreth, Shannon Roper and Esther Son.

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LHS NHRP Scholar (left to right) Karina Ramirez, Leandra Stoddard, Zulema Alvarado.

MARCUS HIGH SCHOOL

MHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists

Daniel Becker

Alexander Bennett David Crawford

Samantha Elmendorf Drew Guenther

Nadia Haile

Abigail Haynes Kaitlyn Kellermeyer

Abigail McIlvain Riley Neuheardt Michael Reed

Shannon Sandridge

Neha Sule Emily Thompson Nathan Thomas

Grant Vassar Daniel Williams

Paige Wyant

MHS National Merit® Commended Scholars

Steven Armentrovt Emily Beltzer

Nicholas Chase Amy Chung

Kathleen Corder Kayley Estes

Michael Griffin John Habenicht Emily Hammos Esha Hansoti Michael Harris Sarah Jones

Samuel Karnes

Keara King Kayla Knight

Zachary Kohn Rebecca Loshelder

Tanner Lyon Camille Marvin Madison McKay

Jake Miller Samuel Miller

Jessica O’Malley Jason Rauseo Audrey Reeves

Caylea Reynolds

Katherine Romig Alyssa Ross

Nicholas Rowley Kaylee Rutland

Cameron Sharpe Emily Stewart

Courtney Sullivan Joshua Sun

Anna Toiviainen Michelle Toro

Hilary Walterscheid

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MHS National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants

Aubrianna Garrett Autumn Langston

MHS National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) Scholars

Maria Cano

Mackenzie Cross Camille Marvin Jason Rauseo

Brandon Thomas Michelle Toro

MHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists (Front row from left)  Riley Neuheardt, Emily Thompson, Abigail McIlvain, Samantha Elmendorf, (second row from left) Nathan Thomas, Daniel Williams, Paige

Wyant, Neha Sule, Nadia Haile, Kaitlyn Kellermeyer, Drew Guenther, Abigail Haynes, (third row from left) Shannon Sandridge, David Crawford, Daniel Becker, (top row from left) Grant Vassar, Alexander Bennett and Michael Reed.

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MHS National Merit® Commended Scholars (Front Row from left) Cameron Sharpe, Amy Chung, Caylea

Reynolds, Emily Beltzer, Madison McKay, Kathleen Corder, Keara King, Rebecca Loshelder, Kaylee Ruthland, Emily Hammons, Katie Romig, (second row from left) Esha Hansoti, Courtney Sullivan, Jessie O’Malley, Kayla Knight, Anna Toiviainen, Hilary Walterscheid, Kayley Estes, Michelle Toro, Alyssa Ross, Sarah Jones, Camille Marvin, Audrey Reeves, (third row from  left) Michael Harris, Sam Karnes, Steven Armentrout, Tanner Lyon, Mike Griffin, Jason Rauseo, John Habenicht, Jake Miller, Emily Stewart, Zach

Kohn, Cole Rowley, Jake Miller and Josh Sun. Not pictured: Nicholas Chase.

MHS NHRP Scholars (From left) Maria Cano, Mackenzie Cross,

Brandon Thomas, Jason Rauseo, Michelle Toro and Camilee Marvin.

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National Achievement Program Outstanding Participants

(From left) Aubrianna Garrett and Autumn Langston  

THE COLONY HIGH SCHOOL

TCHS National Merit® Semifinalists Erik Dengler

Sara Jendrusch Lincoln Shallenburger

TCHS National Merit® Commended Scholars

Ria Cho Savanna Depew

Christian Michaels Chioma Nkwonta

Serena Singh Emily Brown

TCHS National Hispanic Recognized Program Award Students

Martha Diaz Samantha Mendez Xenia San Miguel

TCHS National Achievement Scholar

Chioma Nkwonta  

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TCHS National Merit® Scholar Semi-Finalists Lincoln Shallenburger, Erik Dengler, Sara Jendrusch

TCHS National Merit® Commended Scholars (From left) Ria Cho, Savanna Depew, Christian Michaels,

Chioma Nkwonta, Serena Singh and Emily Brown.

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TCHS National Achievement Scholar

Chioma Nkwonta  

TCHS NHRP Scholars (From left) Martha Diaz, Samantha Mendez, Xenia San Miguel