Students Advance in Scholarship Programs

A total of 80 Katy Independent School District seniors have been selected to advance in 2009 scholarship consideration sponsored by the National Merit, National Achievement and Hispanic Scholar programs.

National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists

Cinco Ranch High School: Joshua Carroll, Sean Cattanach, Joy Chen, Jaimie Chung, Xin Ya Chuong, Rahul Devroy, Oliver Hatfield, Alexander Lee, Yo Li, Siyue Liu, Michael Luo, Thomas Malone, Kevin Meloy, Brett Morris, Jeffrey Nelson, Hans Peng, Rahul Rekki, Leighton Schlanger, Lydia Shen, Boying Shui and Isaiah Smith

Katy High School: William Schievelbein

Seven Lakes High School: Olaluwatoni Alimi, Austin Borden, Megan Brown, Erin Flattery, Lauren Hendrickson, Terry Huang, Douglas Ilijev, Melanie Kong, Sunny Lai, James Lamey, Ao Meng and Rose Thomas

Taylor High School:  Connie Chan, Christine Chang, Becky Choung, Dina Consolino, Nicole Cordner, Samantha Darnell, Nikhita Garg, Dhrumil Mehta, Aprameya Mysore, Steven Pan, Rachel Sayers, Hillary Walker and Jeffrey Zhao

National Hispanic Scholars

Cinco Ranch High School: Alexander Buddenbaum, Tobin Gelbs and Jaclyn Gonzales

Katy High School: Andrew Moreno

Mayde Creek High School: Franklin Gomez, Emily Pitter and Nina Quinones

Morton Ranch High School: George Dominguez, Rene Lara, Ivette Marquez and Io Montecillo

Seven Lakes High School: Luis Baston, Christina Castillo, David Garcia, Lina Hidalgo, Errika Romero, Cynthia Salazar, Zachary Smalls and Brittney Valdez

Taylor High School: Ruel Bobet, Sergio Camargo, Miguel Antonio Curo, Victor Magdaniel-Salas, Danielle Marin and James Sadler

National Achievement Scholar Semi-finalists

Cinco Ranch High School: Joshua Usoro

Katy High School: Kristina Miller

Mayde Creek High School: Oyeniyi Oyetunji

Morton Ranch High School: Oluwashina Arala

Taylor High School: Julie Anne Akwari, Tristian De Leon, Brandon Jones

An additional Merit Scholarship finalist’s name was withheld due to privacy considerations.