The Academic Reception is an annual fall event to recognize students who have attained High Honors or the Scholar of Distinction designation in academics for all three trimesters of the previous academic year (2024-25). In order to qualify, High Honors students must have earned a grade point average (GPA) of 3.6667 or higher on a 4.0 scale. Scholars of Distinction must have earned a GPA of 4.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale.

This year's event took place on Wednesday, August 27. The program opened in prayer, led by Dan Woods, Dean of Student Life, Industrial Technology Teacher, and 2025 Lunde Award Recipient. The guest speaker was Ricky Margarit, '08, partner Ernst & Young LLP. 

President Dr. David Sorkin and Principal Heidi Foley led the presentation of the 2025 Academic Awards. Over 200 students were honored at this year's reception.

Congratulations to the following Stars!

Scholars of Distinction Recipients:

First name	Last name
Antonio	Amigon
Reese	Block
Josephine	Brown
Bryn	Burbach
William	Cariveau
Kacia	Caron
Alyssa	Chamberlain
Emme	Couillard
David	Ha
Dresden	Hortsch
Daniel	Kelly
Joan	Lako
Quan	Le
Diana	Llapa
John	McCartan
Lucas	Meyer
Kayla	Miller
Zane	Mir
Maria	Olson
James	Parish
Benjamin	Randolph
Quinn	Rich
Isabel	Scrafford
George	Sill
Leo	Stebbins
Olivia	Tri
Teagan	Walton
Dominic	Wood
First name	Last name
Andrew	Carlson
Emma	Danberry
Brynne	DeBrule
Madeline	Gonnella
Julianna	Hitchcock
Claire	Holton
Katie	Jung
Caroline	Keegstra
Georgia	Klapste
Will	Knutson
Katelyn	Lewis
Leonardo	Medrano-Ayala
Claire	Meyer
Alexis	Millenacker
Diep	Nguyen
Audrey	Opitz
Nolan	Pelzel
Annaliese	Raasch
Jacob	Ritz
Benjamin	Sarakaitis
Ava	Willette
Linnea	Ziegler
First name	Last name
Mary	Aitchison
Nelli	Amigon
Thomas	Bayrd
Melissa	Biltz
Andrew	Cusick
Vincent	DeNio
Isabel	Devine
Lucy	Farrell
Jordan	Hackel
Cassandra	Hedrick
Oliver	Heitzman
William	Jastrow
Johnny	Kahlert
Emma	Kinara
Natalie	LaMere
Adam	Liesch
Tola	Mroz
Genevieve	Nelson
Julia	Parish
Gianna	Peichel
Andrew	Poirier
Sasha	Reuter
Taylor	Scrafford
Keegan	Spence
Ayla	Stock
Theodore	Toulouse
Joshua	Wolf
Veronica	Zempel

 

High Honors Recipients:

First name	Last name
Joseph	Ackerman
Ryan	Akerson
Abigail	Berlute
Ashlynn	Bland
Caroline	Brumbaugh
Cole	Cheeseman
Kari	Chimbo
Mariana	Christiansen
Marco	De Leon
Henry	DePoint
Mia	Elm
Elizabeth	Foley
James	Fortier
Samuel	Guilliatt
Aidan	Hainey
Di	Han
Carolyn	Heindl
James	Heymans
Thomas	Hopkins
Blake	Hurst
Brock	Hurst
Adeline	Judson
Kolton	Kaiser
Anders	Kuykendall
Katharine	Manley
Lila	Martin
William	Mattson
Isla	McLellan
Brynn	Nepstad
Ellen	Neuharth
Blake	Nixon
Anna	Osterbauer
Grace	Ott
Lydia	Padratzik
Gabriel	Perron
Dylan	Poirier
Diya	Ramphal
Sergio	Rivera Ruiz
Cristopher	Romero
Ella	Rosenberg
Grace	Savatdy
Pearl	Simons
Nina	Slingsby
Erin	Spence
Brenden	Swartout
Jacob	Szopa
Kaitlin	Telep
Cole	Thuringer
Rogan	Vanbellinger
Linfei	Wei
William	White
Cici	Xie
First name	Last name
Aaron	Biniam
Isabella	Blanco-Abundez
Angela	Dang
Bennett	Dayee
Campbell	Holmes
Siqing	Jin
Evan	Johnson
Tate	Kaufenberg
Quinn	Kelly
Britton	Kinney
Nadia	Kirschbaum
John	Kmiec
Peter	Koenig
Caroline	Krings
Beckett	Lind
Dermot	Merrill
Eleanor	Moe
Avery	Mullin
Valerie	Paine
Elizabeth	Payne
Alison	Perez Duran
Leo	Poehling
Ella	Poidinger
Sarah	Ramos
Crystal	Salgado Quiroz
Jessa	Schultz
Benjamin	Smith
Kathryn	Steinle
Lilia	Steinle
Grant	Tauer
Joseph	Walsh
Xochitl	Zamora-Amaro
First name	Last name
Isaac	Ahern
Laina	Baker
Brianna	Bland
Isla	Brace
Graham	Burbach
Sawyer	Carlson
Abigail	Chamberlain
Tristan	Duggan
Addison	Dwyer
Luisa	Eichten
Benjamin	Gannon
Joseph	Hainey
Grace	Hoffman
Hazel	Hortsch
Solomon	Katter
Lillian	Kelly
Kamrynn	Klingelhut
Parisienne	Lee
Allison	Lima
Mia	Lund
Selena	Marquette
Thomas	Marsalek
Sonja	Marth
Rosa	Martin
Michael	McCollar
Sophie	Nelson
Stefan	Pereira
Abel	Solomon
Noah	Stebbins
Georgianna	Thelen
Tyson	Tollefsrud
Grace	Tomback
Joanna	Urbanz
Fiona	Wilson
Charles	Wodele
Charlotte	Wood