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LISD“A” HONOR ROLL – 2ND 6WEEKS

FOUR POINTS MIDDLE SCHOOL

SIXTH GRADE: Laila Ajam, Sana Ajam, Liliana Alpatova, Kareem Badawi, Holt Birchard, Madeline Bischoff, Dylan Black, Yasmine Boufares, Jude Brown, John Burnam, Giana Cantu, Jenna Chavez, Mia Craddock, Cooper Cutler, Wyatt Davis, Mariana Diaz, Alora Escamilla, Sviatoslav Friauf, Giulia Giammaria, Aiden Giroux, Esteban Gonzalez, Manyata Kakati, Victoria Kennedy, Jet Kenoyer, Colin Kubes, Preston Kuykendoll, Aurelia Melguizo, Nicholas Naden, Moukthika Nakerakanti, Olivia Powell, Hadley Rebtoy, Christopher Rinkevich, Jamison Smith, Milan Sunder, Carson Tan, Katelyn Tan, Jackson Taylor, Maritza Tomlinson, Aryk Tyagi, Addisen Werland, Mina Yoo

SEVENTH GRADE: Chase Zavelson, Katherine Abel, Brady Aman, Francisco Ardila, Surya Balaji, Preston Bean, Ianna Bishop, Aidan Borlet, Kate Branscomb, Ava Brown, Brooke Burke, Wyatt Calvert, Cadie Cantu, Maggie Cartwright, Navika Charu, Rachel Chon, Cate Cloran, Owen Conkey, Samantha Decker, Jordyn Dowell, Sydney Elkins, Alexander Eppele, George Farley, Brynley Gage, Hudson Haley, Layali Hassan, Lourdes Hernandez Peraza, Isabela Iglesias, Tyler Jackson, Deena Kallash, Ellie Kim, Kenzie Kudrick, Neha Kunka, Tyler Kwan, Phillip Lou, Daniel Marcano, Alexandra Martin, Noah Marumoto, Jacob Mayer, Gabriel Mcnevin, Manan Mishra, Aaniyah Mosley, Ninaad Nair, Sovie Nance, Lillian Nolan, James Park, Wyatt Paulson, Nandini Raju, Hudson Ratcliff, Lucas Roberto, Lindsey Saunders, Jadon Schnee, Nezar Shobassy, Cooper Sigler, Quinn Smith, Natascha Strenk, Trishna Uribe, Ricardo Urrutia Martinez, John Valenzuela, Emory Vandewalle, Ethan Walker, Sara Wallis, Mark Weston, Indie Whitaker, Raina Woo, Dana Zohny

EIGHTH GRADE: Charlotte Allen, Valeria Amaya-Chica, Madiha Anwar, Alyssa Arsenault, Mehdi Badawi, Blaine Becker, Sapna Bhatt, Annaliese Bischoff, Kaitlin Black, Audrey Boyle, Luke Brideau, Zachary Buck, Lily Burnett, Leya Bustami, Maya Bustami, Sara Bustami, Zachary Butler, Samantha Chee, Liang-Yu Chen, Adeline Chilek, Elle Cummings, Alistair Dawson, Natalie Dhar, Madeleine Engstrom, Erin Evans, Blake Fieleke, Blake Frazier, Sachin Gangireddy, Savannah Ginsburg, Jaden Goelkel, Anjali Gorti, Gage Gruett, Mihir Gupta, Rahul Gupta, Joshua Harris, Brooklynn Hawthorne, Noah Hines, Madison Howard, Juliana Huang, Kevin Huang, Courtney Imming, Judy Kallash, Isabella Keller, Angelina Kelley, Mckenna Kerns, Jake Kurian, Amelia Lo, Danica Lundgren, Carter Luppino, Triana Maddela, Abigail Mader, Zoya Manashia, Klarissa Marneweck, Catherine Marshburn, Zoe Matthews, John Mcalinden, Daniel Naor, Jordan Oliver, Lillian Orth, Price Payne, James Penver, Samuel Perry, Lauryn Pickerrell, Chase Piening, Paige Radloff, Sydney Rook, Ava Russell, Natalee Schmidt, Emma Schumann, Senate Shaw, Shresth Shivashankar, Bhavya Sinha, Sydney Spencer, Asha Thirunarayanan, Brooke Tjelmeland, Kirsten Tjelmeland, Jack Tran, Andrew Van, Nadia Verlinsky, Annabelle Wardrop, Jackson Whitcomb, Dibora Woldeyohannes, Amy Xu, Sophie Yang

CANYON RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

SIXTH GRADE: Robyn Alabastro, Daniel Aleman, Asa Alexander, Stephen Anton, Santiago Arriaga Macouzet, Molly Atkinson, Ahyaan Azam, Mirabelle Bailie, Brianne Bauman, Elisha Brooks, Madison Brooks, Emma Brown, Paige Brown, Nathan Buchine, Savannah Buchner, Mia Bullard, Claire Caldwell, Ava Cazares, Joaquin Chavez, Cynthia Chen, Rick Cheng, Matthew Cinfio, Emily Cooper, Emma Dandria, Emily Danner, Parker Davis, Victor Edstrom, Mya Edwards, Chase Elmer, Rocco Fabozzi, Hannah Farrell, Juliet Fellers, Giulianna Francis, Alyssa Frazier, Vinny Garcia, Jack Garner, Joshua Goldfinger, Grant Gorakhpurwalla, Franklin Griffith, Ankit Gupta, Ethan Ha, Bryce Hampton, Grayson Hardegree, Mary Hausmann, Isabella Hernandez, Alexis Heroux, Madeline Hodges, Ethan Hoenig, Alexander Hoffmann, Caroline Hunter, Kenya Inzunza Mexia, Isabella Jackson, Hanny Jarbouh, Jaden Judd, Rishi Katta, Marissa Kawamura, Alexander Killmar, Connor Kim, Daniel Kim, Parker Kingsley, Sanvi Kishore, Miles Kritzer, Arnav Kumar, Lea Bjerke Laborie, Grayson Lanyon, Evelyn Lehman, Junyi Li, Marshall Linenberger, James Lombard, Drew Lum, Caleb Luong, Tatum Mann, Kai Mccullough, Drew Mcspadden, Lauren Miltonberger, Deanna Zahirah Mohd Faisal, Kori Montoya, Dylan Mooney, Raegan Moore, Jack Mudlaff, Emma Nearing, Gavin Patel, Yiming Peng, Emma Perrey, Jack Peterson, Lacey Philpot, Claire Pitstick, Shreya Poladia, Seth Priebe, James Quattro, Derek Reynolds, Paige Richards, Jaedyn Rivera, Logan Roberts, Lucy Schaefer, Jacob Schmitt, Ella Shahinian, Grace Sheppard, Katherine Simpson, Avni Singh, Claire Song, Scotlyn Stamos, Madeline Sterns, Chase Suthar, Grant Teodecki, Miles Teodecki, Thomas Throckmorton, Charles Trujillo, Chukwuziri Udezue, Alexis Van Wyk, Clarissa Villarroel, Vivian Vo, Jiahui Wang, Kate Warren, Lawrence Weigelt, Ella Welton, William Whitworth, Milo Williams, Calvin Winterbottom, Emily Wolkind, Alexander Wong, Ansel Wong, Eddie Wright, Ryan Wuestefeld, Raameen Zaidi, Jeffery Zheng, Elise Zhou, Olivia Zook, Yuchen Zuo

SEVENTH GRADE: Dominic Abele, Makinzee Aguilar, Mira Ahmed, Lara Alcantara, Jose Aleman, Kai Anderson, Shelly Areepitak, Mary Bahrami, Alexus Bauguess, Yene Belete, Ellie Bergquist, Arjun Bhatia, Kristina Bishop, Colten Blau, Sienna Blau, Maile Boswell, Brooke Boykin, Kaitlyn Boykin, Weston Bried, Elayna Brokhoff, Abigail Brooks, Benjamin Chase, Matthew Chien, Ava Chozick, Ava Chu, Ryan Deelstra, Austin Deng, Matthew Draeken, Gabriela Duran Diaz, Hunter Dwyer, Brandy Eaton, Christian Edington, Sophia Ellis, Mary Erwin, Isabella Espinal, Isabella Fernandes, Campbell Fernandez, Emma Flanary, Brendan Fournier, Aashna Garg, Stella Gatke, Aaron Gordon, Siena Hannabery, Cooper Hildebrand, Brock Hinojosa, Jessica Hoang, Cadynce Hooker, Jack Huerkamp, Luke Huerkamp, Ethan Huey, Ann Jackson, Elizabeth Jackson, Aidan Jones, Alexa Jung, Anna Kameneva, Anvitha Kandula, Michelle Kim, Samuel Kim, Maycie Kritzer, Anthony Kunz, Avery Larusso, Sofia Latorre Duque, Jiwoo Lee, Austin Lewis, Maximilian Lipton, Shayda Loucks, Tyler Lowe, Gianna Ludlow, Abigail Mack, Myreen Malik, Vaishant Mannepalli, Vatsal Mannepalli, Connor Manske, Lucas Martinez, Jordan Mccalister, Finnegan McDevitt, Daniella Miranda, Jamie Moe, Sabrina Mohanty, Nour MoralesBurnett, Reece Morgan, Spencer Motes, Annabelle Murray, Genevieve Murray, Anjali Narayanan, Samuel Newton, Abigail O’Brien, Jason Panoff, Pierfrancesco Papi, Sebastien Patel, Sophie Paul, Caroline Peden, Carter Penrose, Davis Penrose, Evan Penrose, Mariana Perez-Isaza, Olivia Petr, Samuel Preston, Sneha Pulickal, Hei Qin, Aisha Rashid, Madeline Roberts, Vegas Ryan, Brenna Saenz, Baelen Schultz, Catherine Schwenker, Hannah Seal, Sophie Seewald, Kaavya Shah, Riccardo Shin, George Sierant, Avari Simmons, Chloe Skogstad, Madison Slack, Sydney Slack, Finn Snyder, Kjell Snyder, Kaiden Soto, Ashley Starling, Gonzalo Suarez, Sally Sullivan, Tanya Tekkale, Ethan Trinh, Anyston Tyson, Noya Vainbrand, Chance Van Stavern, Ava Vanna, Lukas Vega, Kendall Wilson, Emma Winans, Emma Wood, Trent Workman, Selena Xu, Yuxiao Yang, Myameen Zaidi, Lucas Zatopek

EIGHTH GRADE: Alexander Abazari, Arvin Adhami, Nazaf Ahmed, Megal Alla, Braydon Angie, Tanvi Anugu, Kyley Atkinson, Isabella Banse, Reagan Barkley, Praneel Basu, Elek Bauman, Leigh Blakeney, Aarushi Boppidi, Sydney Borick, Lucas Botbol Agusti, Madelyn Bowman, Casey Caldwell, Isabel Cargol, Devon Chau, Theodore Chau, Anya Chawla, Courtney Clarke, Avery Clevlen, Sydney Couch, Kayla Crowe, Michael Dahl, Lucy Draper, Vikram Dutta, Benjamin Emanuel, Emma Fanning, Joao Vitor Fayad, Sophie Fennell, Andres Fernandez, Lexy Figueroa, Kiersten Fink, Natalia Flores, Ella Forshee, Benjamin Frollo, Afnan Gabir, Caitlin Garrett, Bryleigh Garza, Gaige Geraci, Jeffery Gunawan, Aaron Gutierrez, Olivia Hammond, Leonard Handing, Lauren Hargreaves, Cooper Harty, Leon Hegelich, Duncan Hemelstrand, Cecilia Hofmeister, Cameron Hong, Alyssa Hoy, Brooke Ibarguen, Rory Jacops, Sameeksha Jayaprakash, Sierra Jeff, Sugeeth Jinkal, Kaitlyn Jones, Svea Jones, Haley Judd, Manav Karonde, Aashir Khawaja, Jason Kim, Yejoo Kim, Emilia King, Ethan Kristoff, Gracie Lee, Xavier Leffler, Emmi Leonard, Junhao Li, Samuel Li, Claire Logeman, Connor Lucas, Paige Marquez, Britney Mccarley, Lucille Mcelmurry, Eden Mcspadden, Uma Menon, Drew Mestemaker, Zara Mickelson, Nicole Miltonberger, Aiden Monahan, Kayley Mooney, Mark Moreno Toscano, Rishika Mudundi, Kiana Munoz, Ellen Nash, Nehashri Natarajan, Aisha Nguyen, Michael O’Connor, Timothy O’Connor, Kayla Odom, Shaunak Pandey, Aanya Paruthi, Nicholas Perez, Luke Pitstick, Jayden Polansky, Isabel Proffitt, Yulia Prokazova, Kylie Pucong, Albert Qiao, Henry Ralian, Vaishali Raman, Joseph Ray, Noah Reitman, Lucas Requena, Rachel Reynolds, Jackson Ritter, Jaea Rivera, Neva Rognes, Brooklyn Romero, Isabela Rotondaro, Brandon Runhaar, Noah Sabbavarapu, Reese Sandal, Alexa Sandoval, Fabiana Santucci, Ethan Sarwar, Lucy Schmeil, Ella Scott, Nicholas Shahinian, Ryan Shields, Srila Shrestha, Taran Siruvuri, Jase Skoglund, Ryker Skoglund, Alexander Song, Madison Sparta, Lars Spinetta, Ava Stallard, Abigail Stancey, Katherine Stanton, Ella Stapleton, Nicholas Stephens, Grant Stevenson, Gavin Stubbings, Lauren Tin, Hannah Trinh, Adelle Tupusheva, Stephen Tushentsov, Emma Tydeman, Lyra Williams, Poet Williams, Andrew Wilson, Michael Wustrau, Paris Yang, Bennett Yi, Jordyn Young, Matthew Zaza, Sophia Zhang

Denison enjoys head coach spot for Vandegrift Swim & Dive

Lisa Denison, Vandegrift head swim and dive coach, talks to A Spaulding, a VHS freshman, before his 100 freestyle race. YVONNE WONG

By CODI FARMER, Vandegrift Voice

A wave of excitement rushed over her after receiving a phone call from head coach Drew Sanders just days before the school year started in August, offering her the position as head swim coach. Amidst the celebration of this new position, the phone rang again. Unsure of what to expect, she was greeted with principal Charlie Little on the other line, and an offer to teach business as well. Lisa Denison, one of the new business teachers and the head swim coach, faced some unusual circumstances with her new job on campus.

“I literally was hired two days before school started, which is not the best way to start out a new job,” Denison said. “But it’s just the situation we were in. Everybody’s been amazingly helpful.”

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FPMS Gateway students create a foot orthosis

By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

Seventh grade Gateway students at Four Points Middle School were approached earlier this school year with the task of creating a foot orthosis for children with cerebral palsy.  

“Students had to stick to a strict budget and a limited material supply to insure that they were not wasting money or materials,” said Sherry Grace, FPMS Gateway teacher.

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December 29 2019 Issue

LISD Trustees, Superintendent find common ground

2020-21 calendar, new courses  approved at board meeting  

Leander Independent School District Superintendent Bruce Gearing shares conversations had by the administration regarding performance objectives for the District Improvement Plan with the LISD Board of Trustees at the Dec. 12 board meeting. APRIL S. KELLEY

By APRIL S. KELLEY, Hill Country News

The Leander Independent School District Board of Trustees approved new course proposals, adopted the academic calendar for the 2020–21 school year, talked budget, and received a construction update at the Dec. 12 board meeting.  

Also the LISD board and Superintendent Bruce Gearing are finding some common ground when it comes to their collaborative effort to redefine performance objectives for Goals 1-7 of the District Improvement Plan that was approved at a prior meeting in November. 

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