61 WSHS students given scholarships

These awards were made to students at West Seattle High School at the end of the school year.

Coghill Community Service Award to Miracle Aiono with over 1900 hours of Service Learning

Inspirational Seniors as voted by the Class: Zack Desmond and Sivona Lingle

The Willard Shield - the highest honor a Class can bestow on a member: Zack Desmond and Whitney Elder

Departmental Awards:

Each departmental scholar receives a $1000 Barney Brush Scholarship

Nichole Mustello, Fine Arts Departmental Scholar

Nick Fagan, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the Arts - Visual Arts

Mark Brutke, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the Arts - Music

Quinise Ercolano, Business Education Departmental Scholar

Hamdi Jabril, English Language Learner Departmental Scholar

Stephanie Vincent, Family and Consumer Sciences Departmental Scholar

Reeve Lichtman, Individual Education Departmental Scholar

Taylor Matalone, Language Arts Departmental Scholar

Anniejae Fischburg, Mathematics Departmental Scholar

Marian Caculitan, Physical Education Departmental Scholar

Tina Fu, Science Departmental Scholar

Brianna Behar, Social Studies Departmental Scholar

Kayla Terry, Technology Departmental Scholar

Brenna Kajikawa, World Languages Departmental Scholar

Gemma Clarke and Ian Willson, Outstanding Contribution to the Drama Department

Zack Desmond, Robert Jackson Block Award for Excellence in the Arts - Drama

Athletic Awards:

Whitney Elder and Sivona Lingle, Female Scholar Athletes

John Jinneman, Schoenfeld Award for Male Scholar Athlete

Nicole Nedervelt, Hannaford Award for Outstanding Female Athlete

Christian Crain, Thornton Award for Outstanding Male Athlete

Washington State Honors Award Recipients

These students are graduating in the top 10% of all the graduates in the State of Washington based on an index of their accumulative GPA and their SAT/ACT scores. This year, the school had more than ever before.

Lindsay Anderson, Rachel Barnecut, Alex Barnett, Marian Caculitan, Zack Desmond, Maddie Dunn, Whitney Elder, Martha Ercolano, Anniejae Fischburg, Tina Fu, Galen Howard-Markley, Sivona Lingle, Taylor Matalone, Robert Mendenhall, Angela Moroles, Colin Morrow, Jacob Nauss, Giang Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen, Quynh Nguyen, Brodie Peterson, Warren Pope, Mohamed Shek, Katie Tarabochia, Angie Tyler, Sara Umeda, Alex Van-Den-Ende, Japjit Verraich, Helene Viger, and Jasmine Whiting

Scholarships:

The following scholarships were awarded to these students by the WSHS scholarship committee.

For Technical/2 Year schools ($1000 each.): Russul Abtan, Jacob Rosales, Danilo Valasquez

Future teacher ($1000): Hali Stromberg

School Service: ($1000); Carly Smedsrud (for her work on turning the newspaper around)

Community Service ($1000) Anh Nguyen

First Generation ($1000): Nicole Robinson

Wildcat ($4000 each): Manika Bhandari, Ruben Chie, Sonia Segovia

Barney Brush ($6500): Zack Desmond

Selma Rodgers Scholarship ($1000 each)

Brian Bui, Emily Cook, Hai Le, Sivona Lingle, Dacotah Moline-Livdahl, Kyle Smith, Anastasiya Voronstova, Brenda Woo

LaFromboise Scholarship ($3500 each)

Lindsay Anderson, Gemma Clarke, Jack Hilton, Michael Oliver, Erin Shannon, Jasmine Whiting

SSD Scholarship ($2000 each) Clark Woodward Scholarship ($1000)

Anthony Adams, Alfreida McKinney Jesse Roark

Scholarships were awarded by the noted group:

WSHS Alumni Association Scholarships WSHS Monogram Club Scholarships

Rachel Barnecut Christian Crain

Mark Brutke Tina Fu

Whitney Elder Alfreida McKinney

Tina Fu Michael Oliver

Courtney Gordon Kelsey Shewbert

Laura Mustello Alex Van-Den-Ende

Brodie Peterson

Drew Simpson

Kayla Terry

Alex Van-Den-Ende

Gates Millennium Scholarship

Four year full ride to any college in the United States - Angelica Amesquita

Additional Scholarship Winners (from outside groups): Lindsay Anderson, Christian Crain, Zack Desmond, Niki Elkinton, Tina Fu, Galen Howard-Markley, John Jinneman, Jaelynn Johnson, Sivona Lingle, Malcholm Love, Giancarlo Martino, Taylor Matalone, Angela Moroles, Colin Morrow, Nicole Nedervelt, Anh Nguyen, Giang Nguyen, Quynh Nguyen, Warren Pope, Maria Rapoza, Mariana Razo, Nicloe Robinson, Carly Smedsrud, Katie Taraboachia, Nahid Tewelde, Angie Tyler, Sara Umeda, Alex Van-Den-Ende, Anastasiya Vorontsova, Jasmine Whiting, Michelle Wong

All told, 61 students have received scholarships so far for over $750,000. There may be more coming. Additionally, 111 gold cords were awarded to the Seniors who are graduating with a 3.2-4.0 accumulative GPA. This is over 48 percent of the total graduating class.