Student Excellence Award Winners Announced

(April 29, 2009) – Katy ISD has announced 73 winners of the 2009 Student Excellence Award for 2009, the district’s highest award for graduating seniors.

Award winners are selected by their individual high schools, with 12 students each from the six four-year schools and two students from Miller Career & Technology Center.  Each student names an outstanding teacher, who has served as a special mentor, supporter and inspiration to him or her. The Class of 2009 winners, the area they represent and their outstanding teachers (in parentheses) are:

Cinco Ranch High School: Liz Ambs, performing and fine arts (Michael Ouelette); Katy Aus English/journalism (Marcia Simmons), Xinya Chuong, science (Susan Gray); Amy Cresci, performing and fine arts (Stacie Zimmerman); Ashley Fleming, career and technical (Dean Fuchs); Cheyne Hermes, social studies (Christie Patterson); Rachel Jablonski, performing and fine arts (Christie Skinner); Eric Li, at-large (Velesa Sullivan); Megan Lloyd-Jones, performing and fine arts (Kathy Gallas-Beyer); Andrew Petry, at-large (Dorothy Wilson); Rahul Rekhi, mathematics (Bruce Eaton); and Lauren Thomas, foreign language (Heidi Kirby)

Katy High School: Jessica Acord, mathematics (Karen Paxton); Patricia Alcoseba, English/journalism (Carol Rogers); Melissa Birch, performing and fine arts (Patti Hyatt-Henson); Brad Coffman, career and technical education (Debbie Gamel); Ivonne Cordova, foreign language (Ann Yarbrough); Sidney English, at-large (Dianne Loftin); Zac Griffin, at-large (Leigh Bruno); Whitney Grubbs, performing and fine arts  (Laura Williams); Derek Lawrence, performing and fine arts (Robert Dierdorf); Aaron Menke, performing and fine arts (Terence Gorton); Will Schievelbein, science (Amiee Modic); and Jacob Wehlmann, social studies (Ella Milton).          

Mayde Creek High School: Michelle Blevins, at-large (Patti Otwell); Rebecca Burkhalter, mathematics (Betty Willis); Kathryn Crider, performing and fine arts (Shauna Baker); Julie Goetzman, career and technical education (Ronald Mushinski); Alsha Khan, science (Keka Kar); Alexis Kiley, social studies (James Herzberg; Danielle Kimball, performing and fine arts (Kelley Hughes); Alex Lathrom performing and fine arts (Michael Madrid); Justin Long, performing and fine arts (Mark Keene); Rachel Marcum, foreign language (Mary Pottorf); Jessica Ortiz, English/journalism (Brent Klepper); and Ani Sen, at-large (Michael McCauley).

Miller Career & Technology Center: Sarah Moonesan, career and technical education (John Bertram) and Sukhvir Sandu, career and technical education (Brenda Weible).   

Morton Ranch High School: Giovanni Baez, foreign language (Cecilia Lara); Josh Dupont, performing and fine arts (Ronald Todd); Patti Gregoire, career and technical education (Casey Wilson); Andrew Hanson, English/journalism (Helen Hunt); Dalton Hutto, performing and fine arts (Pam Wilson); Chase Juhl, science (Jane Hoskins); Phalong Macedo, mathematics (Laurie Crestani); Brandon Robinson, at-large (Joseph Michnick); Sukhvir Sandhu, social studies (Jeanna Bickerstaff); Amanda Silva, at-large (Troy Womack); Maria Tafur, performing and fine arts (April Hunt); and Ashley Worhol, performing and fine arts (Tracy Patterson)

Seven Lakes High School: Allison Arceneaux, performing and fine arts (LaKeisha McGowen); Megan Brown, speech and debate (Lauren Becnel); Jeff Christopher, mathematics (Li Lu); Aggie Dwornik, technology (James Krueger); Erin Flattery, social studies (John Irish); Doug Ilijev, performing and fine arts (Desiree Overree); Laura Kolencik, career and technical education (Colleen Thuesen); Melanie Kong, performing and fine arts (Damon Archer); Sunny Lai, science (Doris Hamilton); Patricia Perezanta, foreign language (Rafael Brazo); Julia Rucker, at-large (Shannon Carter) and Jeffrey Stevens, English/journalism (Rudy de la Rosa).  

Taylor High School: Dina Consolino, social studies (Virginia Westbrook); Samantha Darnell, performing and fine arts, (Ann Kelly, Nottingham Country Elementary); Kelly Kersh, career and technical education (Barbie Schmidt); Keith Krenek, at-large (Kathleen Mahoney); Dhrumil Mehta, English/journalism (Gay Hollis); Steven Pan, mathematics (Valerie Pearson); James Sadler, at-large (Elizabeth Irish); Rachel Sayers, foreign language (Teresa More); Matt Shaver, performing and fine arts (Chris Bailey); Laura Smolik, performing and fine arts (Gary Leger, Memorial Parkway Jr. High); Hillary Walker, at-large (Marianne Levine) and Bianca Zampieri, science (Adina Reeves).