National Merit recognizes 64 SUSD students

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (October 4, 2005) -- Thirty Scottsdale Unified School District students have qualified as National Merit Semifinalists and another 34 have received letters of commendation.

According to the National Merit Scholarship Program, about 16,000 students, or approximately one-third of the 50,000 high scorers on the PSAT/NMSQT®, qualify as semifinalists.

Arcadia High School
David Hildebrand, Brittany Fenney, and Wylie Timmerman.

Chaparral High School
Allison Bobman, Misuaki Chi, Judith Fan, Brandon Jones, Matthew Roe and Sharee Hollis.

Coronado High School
Olivia Gersten.

Desert Mountain High School
Kelly Bennion, Carly Bertrand, Ann Chang, Nicholas DeStefino, Shelby Edens, Zachary Greenberg, Meagan Herzog, Kevin Holzman, Katie Largent, Kelly Matush, Jenna Miller, Archana Reddy, Lindsey Thompson, Rex Williams, Kimberly Yang, and Jiaona Zhang.

Saguaro High School
Garrett Widner and Benjamin Harper.

Another 34 students from SUSD received letters of commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise.

Arcadia High School
Tom Ackerman, Ben Coppersmith, Kristin Barber, Hanna Damore and Lauren Imbornoni.

Chaparral High School
Sara Behbahani, Sarah Detlefs, Stefanie Hanna-Riggs, Matt Jordan, Xing Meng, Catherine Panter, Marie Psyk, Gabriela Ramirez, Katrina Ramsey, David Reiman and Jenika VanDyke.

Desert Mountain High School
Engin Altinoglu, Ryan Blair, Alexander Blum, Joel Freeman, Justin Helepololei, Stephanie Kalina, Gauthamha Kulanathan and Jeffrey Shearer.

Saguaro High School
Lauren Cook, Michael Fillman, Patrick Ford, George Landrum, Michael O'Boyle and Tanner White.

Please note: additional students qualified but their parents requested that their names not be released.

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