Ottawa High School honored 77 students for their academic and athletic achievements May 8.
Students received community scholarships, state awards, sports accolades, college/trades/merit-based awards and acknowledgment of military commitments. About $764,000 in funds were awarded for future education.
Joseph Bernabei: Financial Plus Credit Union, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Alex Billings: Booster Club Scholarship, OTHSEA Teacher’s Centennial Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Luke Boaz: Booster Val Van der Meer Award, Don Stevenson / Lions Club Scholarship
Peyton Bryson: Booster Club Scholarship, Booster Ryan Nevins Legacy Award, IL State Scholar, Jerry Bretag Memorial Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Maggy Buscher: IL State Scholar, Marine Scholastic Excellence Award, OTHSEA Teacher’s Centennial Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Layla Carbajal: 2024 Career Fair Scholarship, Margaret Remington Dingle Art Award, Rebecca Aten Memorial Art Scholarship
Jacie Clapp: Rich Roberts Memorial Scholarship
Caroline Cooney: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Emma Cushing: Alexand K and Virginia G Scherer Education Scholarship, Booster Club Scholarship, DAR Award, Don E. Morehead Community Scholarship, IL Council of Teachers of Mathematics, IL State Scholar, Marine Distinguished Male Athlete Award, Ottawa Masonic Lodge Scholarship, Ottawa Womans Club Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Starved Rock Country Community Foundation, Tom and Lyn Henderson Scholarship
Rylee Davis: Ottawa BBB Scholarship
Cabella DeBernardi: Financial Plus Credit Union, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Cameron DeBernardi: Marines - Enlistment
Mei Mei Decker: Berea College Tuition Promise Scholarship
Kasey Dose: Augustana College Engineering Scholarship, Augustana College Presidential Scholarship, IL State Scholar
Marek Duffy: Marines - Enlistment
Chloe Ericzon: Booster Club Scholarship, Jennifer Rhode Memorial Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, U of AL Capstone Merit Scholarship
Molly Ewen: Florence Scherer Bruner Achievement in Writing
Sophia Fernandez Jobst: Financial Plus Credit Union
Bryler Gende: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Lucas Goetz: 2024 Career Fair Scholarship, Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship
Christian Gray: IL State Scholar, U of IL Children of Veterans Tuition Waiver, U of IL Engineering Freshmen Scholarship, U of IL Nuclear Engineering Education Scholarship
Keagan Gromm: Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship, IL State Scholar, Indiana U - President’s Academic Excellence Scholarship, Jim Gayan Memorial Charitable Scholarship, Ottawa Kiwanis Key Club Scholarship, Ottawa Masonic Lodge Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Vactor Manufacturing Inc Scholarship - Trades
Xochitl Gutierrez: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Gabriel Hammack: Foundation Student of the Month, Foundation Student of the Month, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Mary Heermann: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Jack Henson: Booster Candy (Besse) Bernardini Spirit Award, Booster Club Scholarship
Alexzander Houk: Foundation Student of the Month, Harold Clemens II Memorial Scholarship, IL State Scholar, Jerry Bretag Memorial Scholarship, ROE Student Excellence Award - Month of May
Dawn Hudkins: 2024 Career Fair Scholarship, Foundation Student of the Month
Xander Jones: IL State Scholar
Drake Kaufman: Booster Club Scholarship, Streator Golf Scholarship
Cooper Knoll: Babe Ruth Male Athlete Award, Booster Club Scholarship, ONYX Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Calie Kolesar: Betty Hibbs Schott & Robert K. Schott Scholarship
Layne Krug: Booster Val Van der Meer Award, IL State Scholar, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Lydia Kunkel: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Ava Laury: IL State Scholar
Isabelle Liebhart: Booster Club Scholarship, Foundation Student of the Month, IL State Scholar, Jenan Jobst Memorial Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Camden Loomis: Booster Club Scholarship, Dean Cashmen Engineering Scholarship, Richard Pope Award
Kendall Lowery: Babe Ruth Female Athlete Award, Booster Candy (Besse) Bernardini Spirit Award, Booster Female Athlete Senior Letterman Award:
Hope Loza: Bud Sand Memorial Scholarship
Alyssa Malmassari: IL State Scholar, Streator Onized Credit Union Scholarship
Brent McLaughlin: IL State Scholar, Lewis U Presidential Scholarship
Jeanie Miller: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Packston Miller: Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship, Booster Club Scholarship, Minnie and Laddie Tonielli Memorial Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Tyler (TC) Carson Memorial Scholarship
Mika Moreland: Booster Club Scholarship, IL State Scholar, Ottawa Kiwanis Key Club Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Colby Mortenson: Marine Distinguished Female Athlete Award
Kylie Mundt: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Lily Mustered: Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Valeria Navarro: Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship, IL State Scholar
Payton Nodland: Booster Club Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Damion Oberlin: Rosemary E. Walter Memorial Scholarship
Rylee O’Fallon: Financial Plus Credit Union, OTHSEA Teacher’s Centennial Scholarship, Tom and Lyn Henderson Scholarship
Kate Passwater: Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship, Catholic Daughters of America Scholarship, IL State Scholar, Mary Ewers Fine Arts Scholarship, Personal Growth Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Roger and June Rowe Memorial Scholarship
Ellee Perry: Aaron M. Rick Memorial Scholarship, Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship, Booster Club Scholarship, Financial Plus Credit Union, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Richard Donnocker Memorial Scholarship, Tyler (TC) Carson Memorial Scholarship
Sariah Polier: Ottawa American Legion, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Wyatt Reding: Marines - Enlistment
Kaylie Reilly: Foundation Student of the Month
Isabella Ruiz: Alexander Guy William Muir Scholarship, IL State Scholar, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Ralph Nelson Memorial Scholarship, William J. Reagan Fine Arts/Chemistry Award
Oliver Ruvalcaba: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Lilliana Samolitis: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Aubrey Sanders: Mary Ewers Fine Arts Scholarship, Ottawa Masonic Lodge Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, St. Olaf Campus Housing Scholarship, St. Olaf Cassler Music Scholarship, St. Olaf Dean’s Scholarship, St. Olaf Grant, Vickie Hess Elementary Education Scholarship
Sara Shelton: Austen Gleason Memorial Scholarship, Ferracuti - Importance of the Trades
Garrett Shymanski: Booster Club Scholarship
Bianca Sipula: Financial Plus Credit Union, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Christina Snook: Ali Stevenson Memorial Scholarship, Beck’s Hybrid Collegiate Scholarship, Compeer Financial Scholarship, Constellation La Salle Co Clean Energy Scholarship, Eileen Fesco Zonta Club Scholarship, Foundation Student of the Month, IACAC Scholarship, IL State Scholar, Jim Gayan Memorial Charitable Scholarship, Ottawa Masonic Lodge Scholarship, Ottawa Noon Rotary Award, Ottawa Sunrise Rotary Award, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Malikhai Stayton: Booster Male Athlete Senior Letterman Award
Melanie Stisser: A Good Life (Kerry Condron) Memorial Scholarship, IL Scottish Rite Masonic Health Care Scholarship, IL State Scholar, James W. O’Brien Memorial Scholarship, Kate Rowe Wielgopolan Memorial Scholarship, Ottawa Masonic Lodge Scholarship, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Ralph Nelson Memorial Scholarship
Hayden Swett: OTHSEA Teacher’s Centennial Scholarship
Jack Thiry: Marine Semper fidelis Award for Musical Excellence, Music Award - 3rd Place
Matthew Towne: Bud Sand Memorial Scholarship, Financial Plus Credit Union, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Olivia Trovero: IL State Scholar, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Conner Vedder: 2024 Career Fair Scholarship, Vactor Manufacturing Inc Scholarship - Engineering
Sullivan Walker: Ali Stevenson Memorial Scholarship, Booster Club Scholarship, Dr. Robert O Lewis Memorial Scholarship, IL Sheriffs’ Association Scholarship for La Salle Co, IL State Scholar, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship, Sons of American Revolution Award, U of I College of Medicine Scholars Program, US Silica Scholarship
Tatum Wesbecker: Foundation Student of the Month
Samuel White: Financial Plus Credit Union, Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship
Maya Zeman: IL State Scholar
Alexander Zenke: Phil Schoch Memorial Scholarship