Latin, Myers Park tops in National Merit semifinalists

About 100 area students remain in contention for National Merit awards

Posted: Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012

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Charlotte-area National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

List of area students and their schools; students attending schools outside the region not included:

Mecklenburg County

• Ardrey Kell: Apama Balakrishnan, Noah Caldwell, Yebon Lee, Mary McAllister, Vaibhav Shrishail.

• Butler: Saara Raja.

• Charlotte Catholic: Lucia Ahrensdorf, Winston Conrad, Grace Linus, Tyler Schilly.

• Charlotte Country Day: Kathryn Byron, Addison Huneycutt, Edward Mansius, Samuel Wishnek.

• Charlotte Latin: Caroline Beuley, Matthew Bredder, Jaclyn Burton, Chukwuma Eruchalu, Michael Metzger, Catherine Morris, Leora Sharma, Jane Wester, Constance Zhou.

• Covenant Day: Amanda Brumwell, Peter Saunders, James Yardley.

• East Mecklenburg: Shin Kim.

• Harding: Alia Karout.

• Hough: David Snedecor.

• Lake Norman Charter: Grayson Wyker.

• Myers Park: Ellie Acheson, Poulumi Banerjee, John Flynn, Nikhil Kumar, Sona Kumar, Yeonsoo Lee, Meriwether Lyman, Yoon Shim, John Sink.

• North Mecklenburg: Grayson Godwin, Louise Pilsbury, Colleen Watson.

• Olympic: Kayla Howes.

• Providence: Sarah Claypoole, Audrey Hu, Eunice Lee, Megan Rees, Joseph Schachner, Stuart Schrader, Jessica Stickel.

• Providence Day: Ashton Carrick, William Conlin, Morgan Goodson, Nicholas Gregor.

• Southlake Christian: Andrew Rikard.

• South Mecklenburg: Katherine Cochran.

• Victory Christian: Melody Jackson.

• Home school: Daniel Thomas.

Outside Mecklenburg

• Ashe County: Lucas Zeller.

• Bunker Hill (Claremont): Patrick Underhill.

• Caldwell Middle College (Hudson): Benjamin Rohr.

• Cannon School (Concord): Bruna Liborio, Barclay Sparrow, Samuel Workman.

• Central Academy of Technology and Arts (Monroe): Jacob Settlemyre.

• Cleveland Early College (Shelby): Scarlette Moss.

• Cuthbertson (Waxhaw): Caroline Hensley.

• East Gaston (Mount Holly): Dylan Coley.

• East Rowan (Granite Quarry): Micah Bostian.

• Freedom (Morganton): Samantha Roller.

• Gray Stone Day (Misenheimer): William Howland.

• Hickory Christian: David Glenn, John McGrath.

• Hickory Ridge (Harrisburg): Derry Delventhal, Rebecca Slotkowski.

• Lake Norman (Troutman): Shravan Rajan, Natasha Wissmann.

• Marvin Ridge (Marvin-Waxhaw): David Froneberger, Sreeraahul Kancheria, Hannah Kessenich, Kayla Kopczynski.

• Parkwood (Monroe): Alisha Newton, John Rorie.

• Pine Lake Preparatory (Mooresville): David Gomez, Diana Gomez.

• Jay M. Robinson (Concord): Adam Kunesh, Kevin Murgas.

• South Iredell (Troutman): Megan Ong.

• St. Stephens (Hickory): Callie Hood.

• Watauga High (Boone): Sarah Shoemaker, Samuel Weeks.

• Wilkes Central (Wilkesboro): Erin Kolstad.

• Home School: Paul Blankley (Mooresville).

South Carolina

• Clover: Krista Kowalczyk.

• Comenius School (Fort Mill): Joseph Savold.

• Fort Mill: Edward Dunton, Jessica Tennis, Sarah Walker.

• Indian Land: Eric Hahn.

• Westminster-Catawba (Rock Hill): Graelyn Humiston.

Nearly five dozen Mecklenburg County students and about 100 from the Charlotte area were named Wednesday as semifinalists in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

They are among about 16,000 high school seniors across the country selected to advance in the 58th annual scholarship competition, vying for about 8,300 National Merit scholarships worth more than $32 million. Scholarship winners will be named next spring.

Semifinalists are students who scored the highest as juniors in the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. To advance in the competition, students will be judged on academics, community and school involvement, and leadership qualities.

Myers Park High and Charlotte Latin School had the most semifinalists in the Charlotte region, with nine apiece. Charlotte’s Providence High had seven; five were named from Ardrey Kell High. Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Catholic, Providence Day and Marvin Ridge High in Union County had four semifinalists each.

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