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TUSD Students Named National Merit Scholarship
Semifinalists
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Estella Zavala or Susan Cergol, 225-6437
Posted on: October 2, 2001
Twenty-two students from four TUSD high schools are among the 16,000 students
nationwide named to the semifinals of the National Merit Scholarship Program, a
competition that honors scholastically talented high school seniors and promotes interest
in academic excellence.
These students (see list attached) now have an opportunity to continue in the
competition for some 8,000 Merit Scholarship awards, worth more than $32 million, that
will be offered next spring. Semifinalists advance to the finals by demonstrating an
outstanding high school academic record, receiving endorsement and recommendation by their
school principal and earning SAT scores that confirm their earlier qualifying test
performance. School and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities and
educational goals also are considered.
More than 1.2 million students from more than 20,000 high schools around the country
entered the program by taking the 2000 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship
Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as high school juniors. Semifinalists are the highest scoring
entrants in each state and represent less than one percent of the state’s seniors.
TUSD Semifinalists:
Catalina High Magnet School, 3645 E. Pima
Thomas O. Jernigan
Sabino High School, 5000 N. Bowes Rd.
Randolph C. Brickey
Angela K. Greynolds
Meghan S. McConaughey
Gregory W. Prill
Sahuaro High School, 545 N. Camino Seco
Megan M. Simonson
University High School, 421 N. Arcadia Blvd.
Eric R. Coon
Melissa Esparza
Robin A. Foltz
Logan W. Gaither
Jessica E. Galgiani
Ricardo M. Gradillas
Luce Guillen-Givins
Erin M. Hanna
Steven M. Kern
Pey-Jiun Ko
Brianna M. Muhlenkamp
Matthew R. Powell
Daphne L. Raves
Alexandra G. Russell
Lyubov I. Tovbina
Brianne A. Watts
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