Thirty-nine CFISD students have been confirmed as semifinalists inthe 55th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. the finalists willbe honored at a National Merit recognition program at the Berry Centeron Monday, Jan. 11, 2009—along with Commended, National Hispanic andNational Achievement scholars.

National Merit semifinalists fromCy-Fair High School are: Andrew Atwood, Colleen Franklin, BhargavHiremagalore, Audrey Lee, Benjamin Lefler and William Whitham.

National Merit semifinalists from Cypress Creek High School are:
Alejandro Azocar, Daniel Bankus, Kristen Flint, Taylor Jellison, Zachary Leonard, Mitchell Ludden and Frank Weise III.

National Merit semifinalists from Cypress Falls High School are: Angela Li and Jasneet Singh.

National Merit semifinalists from Cypress Woods High School are:
SamanthaKatsounas, Sairam Krishnan, Eric Kuxhausen, Katherine Nguyen, KidongPark, Sadia Quddus, Seth Richter, Kylee Stouder, Eric Sun, DerekWhitmire and Yue Wu.

National Merit semifinalists from Jersey Village High School are: Steven fly Jr., Elizabeth Kilson, Nathan Park and Cybil Zhang.

NationalMerit semifinalists from Langham Creek High School are: Zal Bhathena,Mark Colby, Dalton Dinderman, Travis Heine, Zachary Meyer, GeorgeRixey, Kenneth Sheedlo and Nicole Tran.

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The39 semifinalists, of the 15,000 throughout the U.S. selected byofficials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, now have theopportunity to win one of approximately 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards.Semifinalists placed among the top 1 percent and Commended Studentsplaced among the top 3 percent of about 1.4 million students whoentered the Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National MeritScholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during their junior year.CFISD had 89 total Commended Students.

Cy-Fair High School’sCommended Students are Matthew Blanchard, Hannah Boyer, Emily Cummings,Braden Dauzat, Jocelyn Egner, Steven Forde, Amber Forness, MadhumitaGovindu, Logan Leal, Timothy McShane, Emily Neville, Koryn Pitts,Cameron Snow and Renke Yang.

Cypress Creek High School’sCommended Students are: Avery Addison, Andrew Armour, Eric Chin, ParkerGeorge, Alan Greenwade, Kimberly Guyton, Emily Harvey, Hannah James,Jeffrey Miller, Patrick Noe, Nathan Petryk, Richard Renteria, AndrewSharp, Joseph Sheehan, Jameson Stamps, Kirby Williams and Zhimeng Zhang.

Cypress Falls High School’s Commended Student is: Gregory Cook.

Cypress Ridge High School’s Commended Student is: Max Mercer.

Cypress Springs High School’s Commended Students are: Elyse Coleman, Brett Davis, Ariana Kalziqi and Jesse Lozano.

CypressWoods High School’s Commended Students are: Sara Allen, Batool Banker,Hannah Barina, Garrett Barker, Timothy Barnhill, Courtney Billingsley,Jay Bowling, Laura Brackney, Connor Brannigan, Jordan Buckley, DavidBullock, Matthew Donnellan, Logan Fleming, Nicholas Goodman, SavannahGosnell, Parker Huber, Cameron Law, Minh Le, Haley Lindsay, TaylorLopez, Sophia Nguyen, Stephen Quintero, Elizabeth Roensch, PeterSanchez, Andrew Smith, Michael Stewart, Travis Strahan, AshleyTherriault, George Walden II and Curtis Wendel.

Jersey VillageHigh School’s Commended Students are: Chia-Ye Chu, Cristian Dominguez,John Erford, Rebecca Fitzgerald, Garrett Granier, Dylan Koehn, DanielLa Cook, Philip Lin, Timothy Mardis, Charles Moore, Alison Moscoso,Monica Neugebauer and Ruoyi Pu.

Langham Creek High School’sCommended Students are: Rebecca Boylan, Jude Gonsalves, Hannah Leahy,Jerry Lin, Olivia Low, Cameron Mousighi, Mason Redmond, GeorgeShaughnessy, Lewis Sherer II, Alexander Wang and James Zimmerman.

The National Hispanic Recognition Program

TheNational Hispanic Recognition Program provides national recognof theexceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors andidentifies them for postsecondary institutions. Twenty-seven HispanicScholars and five honorable mention selections have been recognized asScholars by the College Board’s National Recognition Program.

Theyare among a select group of 3,300 of the highest scoring students froma nationwide total of 124,000 high school juniors who took thePSAT/NMSQT and designated themselves as Hispanic.

From Cy-FairHigh School, Louis Carnicle, Kailie Flores, Logan Leal and BenignoZavala were named Hispanic Scholars and Daniel Lopez was namedHonorable Mention.

From Cypress Creek High School, Alejandro Azocar, Melanie Guzman and Richard Renteria were named Hispanic Scholars.

From Cypress Falls High School, Christia Fernandez and Hector Martinez were named Hispanic Scholars.

From Cypress Ridge High School, Victoria Delgado was named a Hispanic Scholar and Stefanie Cruz was named Honorable Mention.

FromCypress Woods High School, Andreina Castejon, Ryan Gonzales, AndrewHall, Victoria Hernandez, Taylor Lopez, Kevin Morales, Gabriel Pinedaand Kimberly Schwaeble were named Hispanic Scholars and Colton Lyons,Stephen Quintero and Leo Romo were named Honorable Mention.

FromJersey Village High School, Cristian Dominguez, Jesus Esparza Jr.,Alison Moscoso and Melissa Tovarez were named Hispanic Scholars.

FromLangham Creek High School, Brock Burdyl, Jude Gonsalves, AdrianaJenings, Amanda Mercado, Erin Peraza and Andrew Reyna were namedHispanic Scholars.

NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

TheNational Achievement Scholarship Program is an academic competitionestablished in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding BlackAmerican high school students. Black students may enter boththeNational Achievement Program and the National Merit Program bytaking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test(PSAT/NMSQT) and meeting other published requirements forparticipation. the two annual programs are conducted concurrently butoperated and funded separately. Of the more than 130,000 students whocurrently enter the National Achievement Program each year,approximately 4,600 are honored. A group of about 3,000 are referred tocolleges for their potential for academic success. A smaller group ofabout 1,600 are named Semifinalists.

Four CFISD students werenamed National Achievement Scholars, while nine students were referredto colleges by National Achievement.

The National Achievementhonorees referred to colleges from Cy-Fair High School are MylesJohnson, Cheyenne Matthews-Hoffman and Chinenye Ogwumike.

TheNational Achievement Commended honorees referred to colleges fromCypress Creek High School are Ashley Barnes, Shoshauna Harrison, BrianHelaire and Sean Simmons.

The National Achievement honorees referred to colleges from Cypress Springs are Kim Coy and Kristyn Joyce.

The National Achievement finalists from Cypress Woods High School are David Bullock and Michael Stewart.

TheNational Achievement finalist from Jersey Village High School isChristopher Charles. the honoree referred to colleges is Cameron Sweet.

The National Achievement finalist from Langham Creek High School is Evan Thomas.

SIXTH GRADE: Connor Anthony, Justin Baluyot, Alexander Bandarenko, Payton Barr, Tess Barr, Ena Belch, Abigail Bernhardt, Brylea Bowen, Margaret Bowers, Chase Bowman, Savannah Clough, Kyla Davis, Jade Ditta, Madeleine DuPaix, Mateo Escobosa, Elizabeth Farrell, James Hagopian, Bailey Hakala, Eleanor Harrison, Eric Hertel, Evan Herzing, Eryka Hines, Lars Hoffman, John Joseph, Skipper Knappen, Tanner Kutchman, Joanna Lilly, Calvin Ludwig, Chloe Manuncia, Kevin Miller, Lauren Millette, John Murphy, LeAn Nguyen, Kristen Palardy, Samantha Park, Austin Parker, Caroline Parsons, Zachary Pena, Grace Reising, Erika Rodriguez-Alvarez, Tristana Sanders, Rachel Sarkady, Niko Smith, Daniel Sork, Molly Stevenson, Emily Stolarczyk, Kirah Strandquist, Alexis Superczynski, Katherine Sweany, Shannon Tait, Julia Tingle, John Torres, Jaqueline Velazquez, Jorgine Vick, Brody Vinson, Isabella Wagner, Breanna Walker, Connor White, Hailey Wilberger, Zoie Wilson, Riley Yanchulis and Ardalon Zahedi.

SEVENTH GRADE: Madilyn Barnett, Caroline Baron, Judy Barron, Jessica Bennett, Erin Bialousz, Alexandra Brown, Michaela Cassidy, Peyton Cassidy, Samuel Connick, Danielle Consugar, Paige Creek-Abdullah, James Dant, Autumn Davis, Muriel Dawson, Benjamin Dean, Zachary Dissen, Hayden Donnelly, Alexandra Doxey, Leah Dunn, Greta Easthom, Taylor Eling, Caroline Emery, Anya Fisher, Taylor Gates, Jada George, Natalie Gibson, Jordan Hall, Allison Hannahs, Lauren Henderson, Katherine Hines, Delaney Horbal, Jeffrey Horst, Graeme Joyce, Matthew Kamens, Alexander Kawecki, Nicholas Kennedy, Samantha Leitholf, Regan Littell, Patrick Mahan, Katherine McCarren, Gina Mogelinski, Abigail Nash, Matthew Pennington, William Pesnell, Kaitlyn Rentfrow, Alec Ruden, Kieran Schnell, Nina Shea, Tanya Smit, Kent Stein, Tatiana Tabacek, Anna Thomas, Thomas Walker, Kathryn Wesdyk, Sydney Wess, Claire Whitaker, Patrick Wicker and Caroline Yearwood.

EIGHTH GRADE: Joseph Buto, Carolyn Clements, Olivia Collins, Shannon Derksen, else Drooff, Bradley Felton, Evan Flack, Lyndsey Gardner, Patrick Goetzke, Noah Green, Nathan Johnson, Connor Joyce, Scott Lanoue, Kasie Lilly, Sarah Lucas, Julia McAuliffe, Joseph Mejia, Abhaya Moturu, Noah Orders, Macel Reising, Vanessa Smith, Emily Stephenson, Nathaniel Strang, Peter Teague, David Thornton, Katherine Valett and Noah Yanchulis.

The following students made the honor roll for the first marking period:

SIXTH GRADE: Sarah Alonso, Riley Anderson, Hayley Anna, Steven Baker, Samuel Barnes, Sofia Barnes-Horowitz, Dominic Bayat, Melissa Beer, Zoe Bell, Amanda Benitez, Casey Boldt, Meghan Boosinger, Antonio Boston, Alexander Bravo, Brandon Bravo, Griselda Bravo, Samuel Brewer, Courtney bright, Douglas Brough, Justin Bullock-Costta, Richard Calabrese, Yzabella Carbon, Richard Carter, Riley Cassidy, Riley Chadwick, Colleen Chapin, Benjamin Coale, Charles Coffey, Justin Collinson, Amanda Craft, Kyche’ Culley, Christopher Cumberpatch, Stephen Cunningham, Michael Cuviello, Jericho Dancel, Dylan Davis, Matthew Davis, Tyler DeJesus, Heather DeVal, Breanna Dobson, Peter Doetsch, Cameron Doney, Bethany Dugger, Alessandra Edwards, Ke’Asia Edwards, Leah Egelanian, Rachel Engle, Jackelin Escobar, Christen Eshleman, Joseph Esterling III, Dominique Evans, Marvin Fernandez, Ralfe Finn, Tiffany Fong, Patrick Gabbard, Victoria Garbesi, Alesandro Gargano, Ethan Garren, Matthew Geckle, Sarah Givens, Joshua Gonos, Stephen Gozzo, Austin Green, Conner Green, Gabriel Green, Paul Greene II, JenAnn Haggerty, Brady Hall, Evan Harris, Kenneth Harris IV, Andrew Hartley, Alena Hartman, Theadora Haseldine, Samantha Heid, Miranda Higgs, Eryn Hines, Jenna Holthaus, Jillian Horaneck, Sean Hurley, Dalton Hutt, Joshua Iffland, Makaylee Johnson, Terrell Johnson, Alexander Kille, Aspen King, Mackenzie Kirschner, Brendan Kiteley, Owen Lamb, Alexander Lamp, Brooke Lewis, Sydnee Lipscomb, Dakoda Liverette, Garret Loe, Hillary Maynard, Sharifa McClean, Shelby McClung, Alexander McConkie, Emily McCoy, Taylor McDowell, Kevin Mejia, Emily Merrill, Michael Meyers, Lance Miranda, Anthony Mirenzi, Katherine Moore, Danyelle Mozingo, Lucy Mulford, Kyle Murphy, Olivia Murray, Heavenly Myers, Joseph Nardick III, Adam Needle, Ryan Newcomb, James Niumatalolo, Gabriel Ochoa, Corey Odom Jr., Isabel Orders, Bethany Pavek, Daniel Pena, Sarah Pena, Connor Pennington, Ashley Pollock, Hannah Poole, Alexandra Radovic, Arsham Rashidi, Bailey Ray, Rebecca Regan, Matthew Rillon, Valentina Ross, Jacob Ryan, Jared Sadegh, Sarah Sams, Allison Sanders, Vanessa Santos, Matthew Schofield, Katherine Selley, Anna Settle, Perry Shaughnessy, Katherine Somoza, Kaitlyn Stokes, Seth Superczynski, Sarah Sutherland, Marisa Switzman, Julia Tasker, Zachary Tennant, Joshua Tosoni, Ryan Toth, Mary Tsueda, Jacob Tubis, Uriel Vega, William Vining, Eric Waggoner, Joseph Wallace, Michael Walsh, Carlie Rose Wand, Tyrone Washington, Alexa Waters, Lindsey Whitaker, Mark Willard, Tyler Windebank, Joseph Wright and John Zoellner.

SEVENTH GRADE: Sean Baity, James Baker, Krishia Balageas, Zachary Barton, Amalie Bauman, Madeline Becker, John Bee, Stephen Belt, Lauren Beyer, Melissa Brown, Vincent Bruce, Jordon Buck, Bridget Burkley, Matthew Burns, Andrew Bush, Steven Byerly, Alyssa Caggiano, Matthew Caggiano, Jacob Carbonaro, Ian Caro, Julissa Chaidez, Christos Christopoulos, Destini Clarke, Kevin Coffey, Colleen Coleman, Ashley Cook, Brett Cooper, Owen Crandall, Dalix Cruz, Alexandra Delgado, Nicholas Deremer, Bryce Dickey, Marshal Dickey, Hannah Dickinson, Sarah DiPaola, Joanie Dixon, Caitlyn Dugan, Hannah Earnest, Mariel Evers, Cassidy Fisher, Elijah Franklin, Elizabeth French, Robert Garraway, Michael Garrity, Harper Gibson, Claire Gleeson, Jordan Greene, Christian Hageman, Andrew Haislip, Garrett Hall, Shaun Halla, William Hankins, Sally Hannigan, Trevor Hawkins, Joseph Hayo, Jessica Heckart, Kacee Helm, Andrew Hiltner, Courtney Hinkle, Isa-Matilda Hoggard, Mallory Hubbard, Caitlin Hurley, Kaitlin Ireland, William Johnson, Blade Jones, Michael Karanja, Amanda Kelley, Eilish Kelly, Samantha Kennedy, Ross Kenworthy, Lillianne Keplinger, Makayla Kilgore, Kara Kishis, Zachary Klar, Zachary Klebaner, Shannon Kramer, Lauren Kromas, Chloe Kubit, Kevin Mackey, Tanya Magayna, Andrew Mainhart, Douglas Mainhart, Joshua Maisel, Alexis Mann, Samantha McAllister, Conner McClung, Hannah McGee, Brianna McGowan, Samuel McKinney, Margaret McNulty, Mckinsey Middleton, Maximilan Mona, Alexander Morales, Colleen Naylor, Marcus Nichols, Mariah Paddock, Aleczander Parsons, Jeremy Peterson, Daniel Policelli, Minna Qureshi, Brandon Rawlinson, Brianna Rawlinson, Andrew Ray, Andrew Reagan, Meaghan Reed, Evan Richard, John Ristaino, Jessica Ritenour, Lauren Robinson, John Rogers, Marisa Roper, Megan Ross, Heidi Salazar, Collin Seydler, Nydia Shenton, Richard Shuett, Keegan Smith, Kevin Smith, Sean Stansbury, Randy Steen, Kathryn Stevenson, Jonah Stewart, Jesse Stratton, Anam Suhail, Brooke Thomas, Justin Torrelli, Jacob Trently, Damonte’ Williams, Darcy Williams, Daniel Willis, Carter Wilson, Ally Wright and Nikolas Zabetakis.

EIGHTH GRADE: Derek Alonso, Connor Alwan, Rachel Armstrong, Thomas Asero, Emily Barton, Alden Bauman, Taylor Bayat, Rowan Belch, Shawn Benitez, David Bernhardt, Noah Binnix, Jared Bishop, Richard Blanchard III, Nathan Boldyga, Margaret Brown, Jonathan Burger, Emilianne Campbell, Rachel Campbell, Sarah Campbell, Christina Cano, Madison Cassidy, William Chester Jr., Samantha Chittim, Christopher Cichielo, Emily Conner, Matthew Coughlin, Kathleen Crane, Breanna Crankfield, Logan Crum, Jenna Dean, Christopher Dell, Rosalia Diaz, Susan Doetsch, Madison Doney, Jessica Dunkley, Aishani Eggenberger, Hailey Ensor, Graham Ferguson, Katharina Fernandez, Rachel Flanagan, Charis Gozzo, Matthew Gray, Lindsay Gregoire, Catherine Griswold, Austin Gunther, Kristy Harper, Julia Harrison, Samantha Hasselhoff, Connor Heckert, Cameron Helm, James Henderson, Natalie Hendricks, Gabrielle Henson, Keonte’ Henson, Rachael Heron, Brendan Hertel, Cara Hiltabidle, Annalise Hiskey, Kai Hoffman, Jeremy Holthaus, Denisha Howard, Elizabeth Howell, David Hutchins, Shelby Itzel, Vadim Jacobson, Dallas Jasper, Dominic Joseph, Jackson Kerchner, Barry Kershaw, Rex Kiteley III, Jackson Knappen, Richard Kozel, Emily Lane, Gabrielle Lawinger, Michelle Lemperg, Evan Lesser, Lakerera little, Rebecca Luck, Benjamin Madison, Justin Maggard, Paige Manis, Noah Mark, Kristin Marsh, Kevin Marshall, Brandon Mathieu, Jacob Mayo, Gabrielle McCrary, Molly McKone, Connor McLaughlin, Michael Meeks, Emily Mintz, Vanessa Moreno, Mandy Moss, Christopher Murphy Jr., Camden Musgrave, Nicholas Nagy, Joseph Nemarich, Ravyn Newcomb, Andre Nguyen, Robert Oberdorf, Maria Olivares-Colotl, Kerri Orgera, James Pak, Bethany Pezza, Anna Quandt, Gabriella Radovic, Kristofer Rasmussen, Charles Regan, Julia Rey, Thomas Saito-Sherris, Natalie Salmons, Maia Sarwer, Justin Schwabe, Ti Jae Sellman, Tyler Sheesley, Patrick Shelby,Clarize Smit, Abigail Smith, Logan Smith, Emily Stevenson, Sean Stevenson, Samuel Svendsen, Amanda Tennant, Alyssa Thompson, Colin Tillar, Andrey Vasilchenko, Brandon Vermillion, Duncan Vick, Austyn Vinson, Joseph Voigt, Bryan Wand, Henry Welsh, Mariel White, Michael Whitley, Zachary Wilde, Casey Williams, Christopher Windebank and Nicholas Wright.