Scholarship Poetry Contest -

LIVE POETS SOCIETY of NEW JERSEY

P O Box 8841
Turnersville, NJ 08012

2007-2008

SCHOLARSHIP & REGIONAL WINNERS

2007-2008

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FIRST PLACE WINNER

(Spring-Summer 2008)

 

                    Meeting Poetry

 

                    I have been lucky. Fed certain slants of light with bottles of milk,

                    I listened to hoofbeats of Revere’s horse

 

                        to assuage the slippery terrors of darkness

                    and spent snowy evenings lingering in the woods

 

                    But I had not really met it yet

 

                    For one day it caught me, a thing of the swamp,

                    that creature you always feared would clasp its slimy hand about your tender ankle.

 

                    And it did – and down, down, into the darkness, catching glimpses all the way

 

                    hair like sawgrass

 

                                                                    taloned feet

 

                        clear blue eyes

 

                                              blowhole nestled between shoulder blades

 

                                                                                                                    light now gone

 

                                                        but smell it: rotting fish

 

                                                                                                        hear water woosh

 

                                slower… drifting

 

                                                                                another carcass, belly up?

 

        

                   No. I developed gills of my own. I can see in the dim light, now.

 

                   There are sharks, too.

                   I am swimming out to meet them.

                   Hannah Cyrus, ME, Orono High School

 

SECOND PLACE WINNER

(Spring-Summer 2008)

 

                              Thou Art Rophe    

 

                              she sat with her head bent in a dreary

                              garden enclaved with snow

                              her dress, unstained in pure white

                              had it not been for the hair of her dark curls

                              her frame would have been completely invisible

 

                              if one were to step so delicately close and quietly

                              the eternity of one tear slip its way down her soft cheek

 

                              and inside her heart beat with turmoil

                              of thoughts of he and the way he cried

                              the way he saw every single part

                              of everything she was

 

                              upon a rock a few feet away

                              or possibly hundreds upon thousands of years past

                              sat one lone man, his head bent

                              his appearance poor and disheveled

                              he sobbed into his weathered hands

                              so completely heaven and earth could be heard in tears

                              could this be my Rabboni? 

 

                              oh God, if it be so to Thee

                              please let this cup pass from me

                              Rachel Brandon, MN, Hillcrest Lutheran Academy

 

SECOND PLACE WINNER

(Spring-Summer 2008)

 

                              Septic of Lost Dreams

 

                              There once was life within the septic tank,

                              Its firm resolve was matched by none around,

                              But through the years, it slowly died and sank.

                              It went unnoticed, gone without a sound.

 

                              The signs of death fermented in its core.

                              Within this soup, sweet dreams were turned to waste.

                              Externally it looked just as before,

                              But filled with such a foul smelling paste.

 

                              It did not realize its futures bleak,

                              But let its innards fall to nature's scorn.

                              Escape from its grave tomb it did not seek,

                              But doom it found, and that which made it mourn.

                              And ignorance became its fortitude. Alone at last, lost in its solitude.

                              Storm Shriver, MI, Crawford AuSable HS

 

 

THIRD PLACE WINNER

(Spring-Summer 2008)

 

      A Letter to Normandy Lines

    

      My love,

      There in the haze, you staggered across a trench of torrid blood,

      Strands of strangled limbs clung on to tatters,

      Whispers of half-devoured hopes shriveling in omnipresent insanity.

      And the copper sky toppled onto the frothy seas,

      As you hovered above the watery tomb, and extended your hand toward the ivory wall,

      Blasting into brittle dust.

 

      I awoke

      Stiff in desolate cold, blinking away the aching storm,

      And sent new letters engraved with love, trimmed with the scent of rose,

      Reminiscent of forgotten twilights and mandolin songs.

 

      My love,

      There on the forsaken harbor, you parted with a rusty kiss; "Wait the horizon," you whispered

      And oh! how it pierced my heart as your silhouette faded into morning mist,

      A parting caress of a maroon shadow.

 

      I dropped

      A pebble into the carved stone well today; they say it frees the madness.

      It splashed into serene abyss, rings of black sweeping into endless spirals

      And then…like an impossible mirage,

      Light.

      Judy Wu, TX, Bellaire HS

 

THIRD PLACE WINNERS

(Spring-Summer 2008)

 

                    cross my heart

 

                    didn’t you bleed until you woke up new?

                    your celestial guts were found as earthly as plump tomatoes when pressed.

                    didn’t your friends have the cleanest feet?

                    you were the loose joint within the Body.

                    every bone tried to silence your eager pain.

                    didn’t you build the cradle that held free will?

                    i imagine your voice stirring my blood cells against my heart chambers

                    like ice against glass:

                    i imagine your face peeling away to show the infinite shadows and lights

                    of a pliable world.

                    didn’t you end your life with a question?

                    you were the melting golden child, you were feeling the loaded gun point of forever

                    at your temple.

                    weren’t you the abortive cut of a revolution, emasculating the bearer of seeds,

                    anlages waiting to release their coiled penes?

                    i remain with pieces of the truth glowing like lunar shine from within my psalm.

                    didn’t you weave through the folds of my mind the white sheet that sopped the

                    women’s tears?

                    didn’t Thomas and i have something in common?

                    Haley Gentile, FL, Cape Coral High School

 

 

                            Refrigerator Note

 

                            I wrote December in Sharpie all over the windows

                            because I was hoping for Christmas,

                            but that's more than a little silly because your shoes outside

                            are so full of spring that the neighbors have complained.

                            I was also thinking that we could refrain

                            from talking about colonoscopies at the dinner table.

 

                            I know you are busy with work so maybe just disregard this.

 

                            David Martorana, HI, Iolani School

HONORABLE MENTIONS

(Spring-Summer 2008)

in random order

 

 

The Aphasia of a Tired Traveler – John Alsace, Chile, The International School Nido De Aguilas

La Mort d’une Etoile – Nadia Solomon, NJ, Hunterdon Central Regional HS

Glass Tree of Azintine – Liana Howard, GA , Lakeside HS

Greyhound Bus – Ashley Hull, MI, Royal Oak HS

The Birth of Passion – Karl M. Speer, VA, EC Glass HS

Dreams are the Shadows of Airplanes – Kelsee Rayner, CA, Rancho Buena Vista HS

untouchables – adrienne lanz, mn, perpich arts hs

Window Between Us – Julia Marley, MA, South Shore Christian Academy

Death of a House – Gwendolyn Garrett, VA, E. C. Glass HS

Among the Transparent – Amy Katherine Schneider, OR, Umpqua Valley Christian School

Skitzofrenica – Blake Baker, WA, Central Valley HS

Corruption of the Tree – Jennifer McCurdy, PA, Greenville

He – Christy Linder, PA, Living Word Academy

what it means – Sarah M. Nemire, MI, Portage Central HS

The One Who Sought the River – Jonathan Wisniewski, NJ, Hillsborough HS

The Tower – Alexis Sullivan, NJ, Wildwood Catholic HS

Flammable: Handle with Care – Ariana Moy, NY , Staten Island

Time – Stacey Gardner, GA, McIntosh HS

September Rain – Lucy Dawson, CO, Poudre HS

Bacardi 151 – Jennifer Yu, IN, Zionsville Community HS

Convolution - Michelle Site. FL, Hillsborough HS

The Scream of Frida Kahlo – Zoe Leavitt, MA, Wayland HS

In All Seriousness – Elayna Zammarelli, OR , Winston Churchill HS

Bread that Smiles When You Eat It – Natasha Mischenko, NY, Stuyvesant HS

Awkward – Zachery Gao, NJ, Parsippany Hills HS

Balm Equinox – Nolan Van Nacre, OH, Lucas HS

Hermitage – Anna Krayuskina, MI, Lahser HS

On Death, And The Four O’Clock Train – Colleen Rodman, CA, Paradise HS

Clover Pulp – Gabrielle Mogul, FL, Pine Crest School

Moby Dick-From Ahab’s Perspective – Sarah Sakai, WA, Providence Classical Christian School

Shade of Ebony – Janna Folks, VA, Spotswood HS

Song of the Soundless – Chloe Glenn, AZ , Prescott HS

Shattering Shutters in the Home of the White Picket Fence – meaghan harper, NY, Onteora HS

The Spider Web – Alex Tsu, CA, Saratoga HS

Opus One – Roxana Azimi , CA , Crystal Springs HS

Halitosis Multiplicity – Matthew Hedgpeth, MA, Worcester Academy

 

ALL OTHER CERTIFIED REGIONALWINNERS

(Spring-Summer 2008)

Renata Villarreal. CT, Newtown HS

Elizabeth Cooley, WI, Shorewood

Sevy Cushing, OR, Sandy HS

Marie Crosswell, AZ, North Canyon HS

Joseph Booheung Kim, OR, Southridge HS

Claire Rementilla, NJ, West Orange HS

Curie Lee, IL, Lincoln Park HS

Lauren Petrullo, NJ, Livingston HS

Nhan Van Le, FL, East Lake HS

Madeline Pickering, OR, South Eugene HS

Elaina Lenertz, IL, Neuqua Valley HS

Dana Schroeder-Davis, MN, Elk River HS

Salina Yuan, NJ, Holmdel HS

Yocheved Kolchin, NY, Hebrew Academy of Nassau County

James Bursley, PA, Mt.Lebanon HS

Ann Stromgren, NH, Portsmouth HS

Christina Bessacini, CA, Paraclete HS

Ryan Guinee, AR, Catholic HS for Boys

Laurie Cooper, VA, Salem HS

Theresa Lee, NY, Sewanhaka HS

Annie Johns, UT, Judge Memorial Catholic HS

Soleil Le, MA, Presentation of Mary Academy

Nicole Freeman, MA, Peabody Veterans Memorial HS

Amy Fehrenbach, PA, St. Mary's Academy

Dylan Demo,TX, Theodore Roosevelt HS

Kristi Troutman, NJ, Homeschool

Emma Harkins, MA, Wachusett Regional HS

Purbita Saha, NJ, Ramsey HS

Kia Tavernier, NY, Brentwood HS

Marc Slaughter, MN,Blue Sky Online Charter School

Spencer Sechler, OH, Howland HS

Sijie Chen, TX, James Bowie HS

Lauren Geldert, NV, Reed HS

Brandon Borrillo, MN, Mayo HS

Lydia Ruth Ferraro, WI, Kimberly HS

Kierra Chnate' Smith, TX, Hebron HS

Breanne Coates, CT, South Windsor HS

Olivia Fantini, MA,Concord Academy

Annie Schey, IL, John Henry HS

Stanley Luc, FL, Miramar HS

Ashley Kramer, TX, Stony Point HS

Nikki Look, CO, Douglas County HS

Joanna Arteaga, CA, Sierra HS

Pamela Plant, NC, Greensboro Day School

Jeremy Hacker, WA, Yelm HS

Megan Berardo, NJ, Matawan Regional HS

Derek Pyland, AR, Southside HS

Samantha Mohan, WA, South Kitsap

Caroline Kokubun, OR, Oregon Episcopal School

Erin Stark, IA, Vinton Shellsburg HS

Courtney Condren, AR, Arkansas Baptist HS

Ambrose Dobrozsi, OH, Homeschool

Cayla White, CA, Golden Valley HS

John Wheeler, GA, Woodward Academy

Paige Buyarski, WI, Oshkosh Lourdes HS

Kara Bischak, IN, Angola HS

Jillian Edge, CA, Mission College Prep HS

Megan Mack, MI, Ladywood HS

Simone Butler, NY, Bishop Loughlin Memroial HS

Kayleigh Finley, TX, Clear Creek HS

Marlena Sampson, CA, Moorpark HS

Neelam Grewal, CA,Silver Creek HS

Eileen Shi, CA, Westview HS

Michael Casiano, MD, Lansdowne HS

Lisa Ding, OR, Beaverton HS

Brianna Finley, CA, Poway HS

Marina Critchett, AK, Homer HS

Aaron Werstine, CA, Millikan HS

Elizabeth Hunt, GA, Ringgold HS

Jeanne Shearer, KY, Glasgow HS

Mariah Wilson, NY, Madrid Waddington Central School

Michelle Site, FL, Hillborough HS

Chelsea Smialek, MI, Gross Pointe North HS

Catherine,OR, Liberty HS

Devyn Brewer, FL, Pace HS

Mark Schroepfer, MN, Sleepy Eye Schools

Emily Zach, WA, Kingston HS

Kyle Danowski, WI, Franklin HS

Kyle Shute, MA, The Rivers School

Chelsey Stiefel, NY, Benjamin Cardozo HS

Josh Callum, MA, Braintree HS

Andrew Occiano, CA, Westview HS

James Siders, WV, Ripley HS

Jacqueline Loweree, TX, Hanks HS

Michelle Jurgensen, NJ, Paramus HS

Weiling Liu, PA, Council Rock HS North

Marissa Portinga, OR, Cleveland HS

Catey Bayse, NH, Phillips Exeter Academy

Zachary Wilson, LA, Destrehan HS

Samantha Leavy, PA, Christopher Dock Mennonite HS

Sarah Elizabeth Louis, NY, Doane Stuart School

Amy Monroe, NY, Ossining HS

Christina Dover, CO, Holy Family HS

Rasha Ahmed, CA, Newbury Park HS

Kelly Wilcox, CT, Portland HS

Hope Behnke, WI, Everest Senior HS

Stephanie Vecellio, CT, Lyman Hall HS

Ivonne Oladunni, FL, Plantation HS

Kathryn Ingall, GA, Lassiter HS

Ryan Sheehe, NC, West Brunswick HS

Jonathan Draxton, UT, Park City HS

Brianna Olson-Carr, HI, Hilo HS

Jonathan Mills, VA, Chancellor HS

Abigail Clauhs, SC, Wando HS

Brandy Crews, MT, Florence-Carlton HS

Timna Axel, IL, Buffalo Grove HS

Anahit Gulian, MD, James Hubert Blake HS

Daisy Alioto, MA, King Philip Regional HS

Linda Huang, IN, Penn HS

Amy Erickson, TX, L.C. Anderson HS

Nicole Fischer, CA, Saugus HS

Zoe Leavitt, MA, Wayland HS

Sasha Tarasev, MI, Pioneer HS

Patrick Butera, NJ, Mountain Lake HS

Alyssa Corcoran, MN, North HS

Elliot Sawyer, OR, International School of the Cascades

Travis Bates, IL, DeKalb HS

Astrid Burke, NY, Convent of the Sacred Heart

Matt Dlabich, MD, Kent Island HS

Rachel Rozman, MD, Wooton HS

Kariely Escobar, OR, Arts and Communications Magnet Academy

Adam Patarino, IN, Franklin Community HS

Kirsten Aguilar, CA, Sonoma Valley HS

Ashley Gibbons, VA, Holy Cross Regional Ceatholic School

Kevin Smith, NY, Bishop Grimes Jr/Sr HS

Kathleen Hong, MA, Burlington HS

J. A. Svercek, TX, Spring

Hannah Wittmeyer, CO, Poudre HS

Karina Tam, CA, San Mateo HS

Austin Atkins, NH, Prospect Mountain HS

Manda Tai, GA, South Forsyth HS

Hannah Graber, WI, Wauwatosa East HS

Stephanie Austin, CA, Ramona HS

James Benjamin Shepard, KY, Home Educated/Christian Educational Consortium

Tan Do, MN, South HS

Nicholas Bolt, NJ, Glen Rock HS

Kyrstin Allison, WA, Squalicum HS

Gilbert Marquez, CA, Segerstrom HS

Ellie Shorey, OH, Hathaway Brown School

Lydia Bron, CT, Parish Hill HS

Jessica Dudoff, NH, Amherst

Stephen Wong, TX, CrowleyHS

Katie Longofono, KS, Topeka West HS

Alexis Arrabito, WA, Everett

Erik Alexander, VT, Lyndon Institute

Jess Delaney, VA, Lebanon HS

Alicea Becker, OR, South Medford HS

Michael Ring, NV, Incline HS

Rebecca Sheehan, KY, Notre Dame Academy

Kimberly Cocuzza, PA, Stroudsburg HS

Lindsay Aspin, NJ, North Hunterdon HS

Gabrielle Mogul, FL, Pine Crest School

Kathryn Lewis, OH, home school

 

 

 

 

 

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Elizabeth Cooley, WI, Shorewood

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST PLACE WINNER

                                                    (Fall-Winter 2007)

 

HOME : In Memory of Dr. Stephen Glosecki

 

While the carcinogenic monster ravaged

your physical body,

like a child clutching his sweet mother’s hand,

you caged your heart and fortified your soul.  your spirit gleamed, the

shield behind an infinite love for life— your sword.

And from behind the hospital curtains,

we heard the valiant battle, the clash of armor,

mingled with reeking formaldehyde.

 

I want to kiss the strange, unsullied beauty

in comfort. the cold slithers in through the cracks,

and another’s hearth becomes my cradle.

 

On a lonesome, dimly lit subway,

we strangers stand two feet apart. eyes shift

from the once shiny floor

to the jagged glass lights above.  One cries for the past,

one yearns for the future.

with hands in pockets, gripping an outdated map,

he says, I’m going home.

I say,

I’ll see you there.

Cynthia Huynh, AL, The Altamont School

SECOND PLACE WINNER

                                                         (Fall - Winter 2007)

The Fruits of War

 

loading guns with apple bullets automatic,

biting into decimated unripe flesh.

swollen plum stains

spreading on jaws and hips as bones are broken.

strawberry eyes, dried and burning, gaze

at orange-slice flames in window boxes and doorframes.

black cherry bombs burst and discolor the sky,

shattering and raining knotted stems and pits

left strewn upon the raspberry-soaked corpses

living and dead;

across the blueberry ocean

mindless masses imagine shiny wax victory.

Allyson Galle, MI, Berkley High School


 

SECOND PLACE WINNER

                                                (Fall - Winter 2007) 

Artifacts

 

I.

 

Patches of sepia lay scattered across my bedroom floor in pigments of faded birthday cards and

greetings from Peru –  in brownish gray hues of what once was, and what could have been--        

for me – had not the cannon balls been fired through the windows

 

These are the remnants of the days before secession.

 

There are poodle skirts and Go-Go boots and plastic-shrouded sofas, there are Christmas trees

and coffee cakes and Sunday raviolis, and there is merriment, so abundant, that not even the

most discerning of ears could perceive the advancing rebel armies above the clatter of the wine.

 

II.

 

With each uncovered layer, dust is lifted, is liberated off lampshades –

off tablecloths and China cabinets

 

With each inverted revolution, color saturates, it permeates the walls – colors condense and unify

 

With each back flip of sand, shattered fragments of glass now crystallize, lucid, the Renaissance.

 

And this is my Enlightenment: An Eightfold Path obstructed through a film of black and white –

Impalpable, intangible – to me.

 

III.

 

Torrents of sepia are gushing from the floor, and the walls bear no asylum, as each crevice has

borne witness to the wedding invitations: sent, received, R.S.V.P.-ed by all

 (Before the postal routes were severed)

 

I hear the shots heard 'round the table that forced my would-be comrades to disperse

I scrub the blood stains off the floor to no avail.

 

IV.

 

And now the walls have paled, the seats have cleared – glass is broken once again.

The blinds are shut, the doors are locked – it's safe to say – we're in the Dark Ages.

 

Marcella Kocolatos, NY, Archbishop Molloy High School

 

 

 


 

THIRD PLACE WINNERS

                                                                         (Fall - Winter 2007)

Anesthesiologist

 

Glancing once through pale stained glass, I look into me, viciously,

Washing out stains under strident water.

Cleaning every crevice, but not clean enough; I hold me under.

We’re no longer together, her and I. I aggrandized; she appreciated finer things.

I couldn’t hold her weary head off her broad shoulders.

I let her die on a marble cross next to me, at her side.

I prayed, I still pray, but it comes for me.

Porcelain-cross, ready for the test. Here comes the anesthetic breath.

It comes a tax collector

Well-dressed, hiding in the dark alcoves

Of my now, more than ever, dying brain, unholy soul.

I am now, more than ever, alone. I am buried under rivers in harsh blues,

I will run forever through the deep veins of the world. Sick of this empty set,

The endless torch-passing marathon existence. Saying under breath,

“Your story is old and falls cadaverously

Like acid rain onto young tulips.”

The carpenter goes from door to door,

He knocks and enters through, I feign my uncertainty

That there are no deaths, just endless rest.

A Gentleman has come to see you.

Brian Guetti, NJ, Highland Park High School

 

left.

 

the desert is cold at night, when there is no sun. your hair matches the sky.

they didn’t know, and now they are dead. and you whisper, and you whisper.

we search through the shadowed sand for broken glass; it is quiet. a spider

rests on a rock, waiting for me as you weep. you are smiling as a single tear

traces a path over your skin. i follow you and we find no water, only a mirror.

broken. still broken. i take your hand and i am the moon, i have never been

paler. and we blend, but silently, as i watch your eyes become dim. still cold.

you are cold but i feel your blood still, within you. don’t be dead. the desert is

cold at night.

                                                   fragile things, once written, become even

                                                  more brittle and will crack if you dare to

                                                  breathe. only whisper.

Kyrene Teipel, MI, Armada High School

 

busted

 

mama asks about my lip.

busted, bleeding, torn.

there's a quiet.

i ask her about romance.

she asks who?

i blush,

because lips shouldn't smile that big

and bust on their own.

Alahnna Cruz Balmeo, CA, Scripps Ranch High

HONORABLE MENTIONS

(Fall - Winter 2007) 

in random order

 

I Was Called Dog – Sarabeth Stitt, GA, Starr’s Mill High School

(Sarabeth won 1st Place in last year’s Fall - Winter contest)

Descent in Return - Desislava Kalcheva, CA, University City High School

Crimson Lily – Elizabeth M. Dalla Betta, CO, Galileo Homeschool

Innocence – Katie Lewis, CO, Mountain Vista High School

‘Salem Fallacy – Jake Lawrence, IL, Crystal Lake

Will Dine (Again) – Fruhlein Chrys, CA, Santa Clara High School

Butterfly, The Psyche of War – Winnie Jeng, MI, Novi High School

I want to release your name from my diary… - Voncille Younan, CA, Valhalla High School

Belle Glade Penitentiary, 1985 – Annie Bass, CT, Educational Center for the Arts

Fatherland – Daryl Seitchik, NJ, Millburn High School

three 15 – L E, NC, Southern High School

When death calls – Nikki Starrett, MA, Pingree School

Growing Up – Brittany Reeve, CA, Notre Dame High School, San Jose

Soap – Thomas Wright, NJ, Deptford High School

a single word… - Danielle Japhet, PA, Sun Valley High School

The delicate warfare – Caryn Dreibelbis, GA, Junior Rabun Gap Nacoochee School

strawberry lover – Amber Hartzell, PA, Whitehall High School

To Truly Love You – Alisa Benjamin, IN, Bishop Chatard High School

she lives in the treetops – Monica Navarro, CA, Escondido Charter

when alone – Elsinore Smidth-Carabetta, CA, Marin Academy

Hwaer Cwom Mearg?: Hwaer Cwom Mago? - Andrew Hauge, KS, Bishop Carroll Catholic High School

[in the classroom] – Alex Reed, Al, Spain Park High School

Merely Ambitions – Aishia Martinez, NJ, Emerson High School

Lifetimes – Alison Stagner, MO, Kirkwood High School

How the Black Burqa Shimmers in the Night – Usman Hameedi, NY, Banneker Academy

The Candle’s Livid Wick – Katharine Mabry, TX, Canyon Creek Christian Academy

Mother – Sarah Moses, WA, Kelso High School

Metamorphosis from Good to Evil – Eric Hopkins, FL, Mariner High School

Under the Mushroom Cloud – Mikhail Zaidi, GA, Centennial High School

I confess and take your burden for my own… - Alexandra Ghaly, FL, Palm Harbor University High School

Fall In Sanity – Sarah Barber, NY, Wallkill Senior High School

In Praise of Truth – Sinclair Cohen, CA, Las Lomas High School

Untitled #53 – Jesse Jones, TN, Farragut High School

Three Hundred and Ten Kings - Emalie Soderback, WA, Edmonds-Woodway High School

Studying alone in a cold Starbucks on Huntington Drive at 10:27 p.m. – Marty Fong, CA, Clark Magnet HS

but Occam! I am starved! – Jessie Ge, SC, Spring Valley High School

Cotton Appendectomy – Melissa Waldo, MO, Joplin High School

to grow into my happy skin… - Hillary Bishop, CO, Mountain Vista High School

The Woodcutter – Ronak Shah, IN, Pike High School

Undemanding Perfection  -- Estella Yee, OR, Sprague High School

Hypothermic – Lisa Brigandi – NY, Liverpool High School

Awakened – Maura Housley, WV, Martinsburg High School

 

 

 

All Other Certified Regional Winners

Fall-Winter 2007

 

Oscar Salguero, VA, Briar Woods High School

Jennifer Beeman, TX, Memorial High School

Raisa Soriano, CA, Natomas Pacific Pathways Preparatory

Sarahbeth Stitt, GA, Starr’s Mill High School

Shamita Punjabi, CO, Arapahoe High School

Gita Rao, TX, Plano Senior High School

Mahaela Dokken, WA, Sequim High School

Kimberly Tighe, NH, Salem High School

Sarah Malik, NY Levitown High School

Gabriela Algarroba, FL, Seminole High School

Azya Rhodes, UT, Sky View High School

Diana Qiu, CO, Palmer High School

Eric Hendries, WI, Bay Port High School

Heather Perry, OH, Streetsboro High School

Ashley Duckworth, GA, Rome High School

Michelle Charles, NY, Sacred Heart Academy

Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, MI, The Roeper School

Lea Sheyman, MI, Groves High School

Nicole Welk, PA, Solanco High School

Brittany Reeve, CA, Notre Dame High School, San Jose

Briahna Hansen, AR Little Rock Christian Academy

Maria Naccarato, WA Central Valley High School

Sydney Pipkin, HI, King Kekaulike High School

Jacquise Longino, CA, Gahr High School

Jenny Ayumi Kai, NY, Queens High School for the Sciences at York College

Victor Minden, CA, Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School

Logan Leatherman, TX, Fort Worth

Sara Graciano, PA, Fox Chapel Area High School

Alexandra Joy Lin, CA, Crystal Springs Uplands School

Caryn Dreibelbis, GA, Junior Rabun Gap Nacoochee School

Mikhail Zaidi, GA, Centennial High School

Lana Moy, IL, Fremd High School

Laurel Stern, CA, Santa Cruz High School

Kindra Weisbrod, CO, Poudre High School

Sally Robertson, MN, Highland Park Senior High School

Nick Farruggia, PA, Hempfield Area High School

Corinne McClure, WA, Arlington High School

Angelica Ostaszewski, IL, University High School

Edward Moon, NJ, LPS Alumni & Volunteer

Monica Navarro, Ca, Escondido Charter High School

Nikkole Hughes, WA, Spanaway Lake High School

David Jenkins, MI, Grandville High School

Gabriela Santiago, IL, Eureka High School

Tammy Lang, CA, Hope Christian Academy

Steven Porter, IN, Lakeview Christian School

Ronak Shah, IN, Pike High School

Emma Moore, NY, The Doane Stuart School

Erika Carpenter, CA, Julian Charter PV

Eric Choate, AZ, Arizona School for the Arts

Jasmyn Hendricks, FL, Durant Senior High School

Aishia Martinez, NJ, Emerson High School

Nikkie Starrett, MA, Pingree School

Matthew Walsh Bade, OR, Cleveland and Jefferson High School

Winnie Jeng, MI, Novi High School

Sarah Barber, NY, Wallkill Senior High School

Desi Kalcheva, CA, University High School

Ryan Collins, IN, Ben Davis High School

Claudia Goncalves, NY, Archbishop Molloy High School

Jennifer Patel, OH, Padua Franciscan High School

Elizabeth Lawrensen, IA, MOC-Floyd Valley High School

Dana Schroeder-Davis, MN, Elk River High School

Jonathan Rinehart, AR, Bryant High School

Lauren Laguna, NY, Croton Harmon High School

Leni Fang, CA, Alhambra High School

Rob Butchayo, TX, Klein Collins High School

Karla Holloway, CA, La Canada High School

Jordan Workman, WV, Home-Schooled

Kelsey Brown, FL, Riverview High School

Daryl Seitchik, NJ, Millburn High School

Laura Yeakey, IL, Glenbard North High School

Sarah Jedd, NH, Kearsage Regional High School

Matthew Farina, OK, Tishomingo High School

Leslie Puett, CA, Bayshore Preparatory Academy

Garla Vangrove, CO, Woodland Park HYS

Amanda Adcox, TN, Davidson Academy

Christina Hart, TX, Clarksville High School

Amelia Kent, WA, Everett High School

Danielle Brockmann, NC, Weddington High School

Szu Joyce Chiu, TX, Dulles High School

Ben Youngblood, AZ, Gilbert High School

Mike Gerbino, NY, Irondequoit High School

Erika Murillo, FL, Southwest Miami Senior High School

Kelsey Mills, OR, Ashland High School

Kristyn Robledo, CA, Sultana High School

Jamie Mead, TX, Wall High School

Yifei (Effie) Kong, PA, Harriton High School

Trevor Worthey, NY, Corning-Painter Post West High School

Max Taggart, UT, East High School

Marty Fong, CA, Clark Magnet High School

Casey Cazer, NY, Canandaigua Academy

Maggie Roby, OH, Johnstown-Monroe High School

Alexandra Ghaly, FL, Palm Harbor University High School

Ariel Walgraeve, MI, Henry Ford II High School

Kirbie Lapins, VA, Fauquier High School

Samantha Leef, TX, Grapevine High School

Damilola Amoo, CT, Central High School

Eric Hopkins, FL, Mariner High School

Maura Housley, WV, Martinsburg High School

Daisy Favela, CA, Hoover High School

Maddison Stapleton, OR, David Douglas High School

Bridget Hansen, IL, McHenry

Lewis Mundt, MN, Osakis High School

Nicole Zok, CA, Dos Pueblos High School

Brittney Blevins, CO, Arvada West High School

Brigid Hoffman, SD, St Thomas More High School

Kelsey Beth Pilon Carpenter, CA, Sequoia High School

Sterling Crain, FL, West Shore Jr/Sr High School

Brendan Gibbons, CO, Grand Junction High School

Marina Bradaric, NE, Lincoln Southwest

Clanisha Marchman, CO, Palmer High School

Kate Winderman, TX, St Agnes academy

Jennifer McCurdy, PA, Commodore Parry High School

Olivia Douglas, KY, DuPont Manual High School

Brandon Kai Oberle, SC, Oberle Classical Institute

Laura Howard, GA, Davidson School of Fine Arts

Andy Rajski, NC, Wayne Early Middle College High School

Danling Yu, WI, Jerome Case High School

Amber Hartzell, PA, Whitehall High School

Fruhlein Chrys, CA, Santa Clara High School

Elsinore Smidth-Carabetta, CA, Marin Academy

Alisa Benjamin, IN, Bishop Chatard High School

Storm Shriver, MI, Grayling High School

Rachel Loya, PA, Penn Hills Senior High School

Hilary Browning, OR, South Salem High School

Alex Reed, AL, Spain Park High School

Ricky Mula, TN, Sullivan South High School

Elizabeth Hawkins, CA, Campolindo

Amelia Farber, OR, Ashland High School

Rochelle Germond, FL, Sarasota High School

Lisa Brigandi, NY, Liverpool High School

Angela Marchand, MI, Whitmore Lake High School

Rachel Barnard, FL, Booker High School

Victoria Doose, SC, Charleston County School of the Arts

Joelle Crystal Willsey, NY, West Irondequoit High School

Brittany Watson, TX, Marcus High School

Steven Cassidy, CO, Pueblo West High School

Lisa VanArsdale, CO, Air academy High School

Megan MacDonald, VA, King George High School

Katie Lewis, CO, Mountain Vista High School

Beth Hunt, GA, Ringgold High School

Rebecca Bobbitt, SC, Swansea High School

Danielle Japhet, PA, Sun Valley High School

Sara Lugina Srygley, MI, Grand Blanc High School

Hillary Jenny, WI, South west High School

Perla Solorzano, AZ, La Joya Community High School

Annacrizelda Funtelar, VA, Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for Arts & Technology

Cory Hughes, IL, Lincoln-Way Central High School

Nadine Levyfield, CA, Eagle Rock High School

L. E. NC, Southern High School

Candice Halford, AR, Manila High School

Elizabeth Tombers, IN, Highland High School

Yael Green, CA, School of the Arts

Hillary Bishop, CO, Mountain Vista High School

Steve Schmidt, NY, Saranac Central High School

Jessie Contour, CA, La Costa Canyon

Faith Thompson, PA, Yough Senior High School

Jonathan Joiner, GA, South Gwinnett High School

Katharine Mabry, TX, Canyon Creek Christian Academy

Jacklyn Ngo, NC, Renaissance School at Olympic High

Abigail Mills, FL, International Community School

Jessie Ge, SC, Spring Valley High School

Ally Lever, CA Los Alamitos High School

Liana Howard, GA, Lakeside High School

Estella Yee, OR, Sprague High School

Jesse Jones, TN, Farragut High School

Kimberly Miller, CT, Conard High School & the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

Krystin Gollihue, NC, Croatan High School

Jake Lawrence, IL, Crystal Lake High School

Melissa Waldo, MO, Joplin High School

Scott Simpson, GA, Norcross High School

Melissa Sidran, CA, The Athenian School

Caitlin Killough, NY, Shenendehowa High School East

Tabitha Gorena, TX, Creekview High School

Hannah Wilson, CO, Lakewood High School

Victoria Hogan, CA, Trabuco Hills High School

Shila Chowdhury, NY, Herbert H. Lehman High School

Scott Mobley, CA, Mill High School

Ceton Tate, NJ, Henry Hudson Regional High School

Rebekah Albano, DE, Cape Henlopen High School

Lisa Levin, CA, San Diego High School of international Studies

Jessie Gilliam, CA, Paso Robles High School

Casey Muir, AL, Hayden High School

Sara Sass, PA, Radnor High School

Alaina Turse, NJ, Kingsway High School

Nora Heaton, IL Palatine High School

Tyler B. Adkins, NC, FCDS

Fernando Jimenez, CA, Whittier High School

Erin Schoeneman, AL, Spain Park High School

Katrina Gingerich, OH, A Beka Academy

Ori Gold, CA, Homestead High School

Hannah Chupp, TX, Coram Deo Academy

Ivan Plis, MD, Bel Air High School

Randi Ruble, MI, Portage Northern High School

Hannah Katibah, HI, St. Joseph High School

Usman “Y” Hameedi, NY, Banneker Academy

Tiffany Johnson, NC, Parkland High School

Victoria (Tori) Davis, TX, Hyde Park Baptist High School

Thomas Wright, NJ, Deptford

Rica Bhasin, PA, Moon Area High School

Courtney Kemp, OR, La Grande High School

Rachel Czwartacky, NY, Hunter College High School

Aaron Kyle Schrag-Toso, AZ, Tucson High Magnet School

Austin Cox, TX, Marcus High School

Casey Pings, WI, Franklin High School

Sarah Moses, WA, Kelso High School

Ashley Lawson, TX, Humble High School

Sara Miller, KS, St. Francis Community High School

Casey Reed, CA, Chadwick School

Emalie Soderback, WA, Edmonds-Woodway High School

Daniel Scheffler, MA, Saint John’s High School

Andrew Hauge, KS, Bishop Carroll Catholic High School

Kathryn McDonald, MS, Our Lady Academy

Ashley Dos Santos, CT, South Windsor High School

Annie Bass, CT, Educational Center for the Arts

Leah Wilson, AZ, Mohave High School

Nadia Shamout, CA, Santa Susana High School

Brittney Ray, GA, Brunswick High School

Kaitlyn Mc, Dowell, MD, Centennial High School

Theodore Potts, AZ, Derr Valley High School

Mollie Kuebler, OH, Little Miami High School

Yasmin Sevilla Mannan, USVI, St. Croix Country Day School

Kalie Pechacek, NC, Northeast Guilford High School

Sarah Westfall, TN, Chuckey Doak High School

Marissa Emery, MD, Milford Mill Academy

Katie Quisenberry, MI, Homeschool
Ashley Byszkowski, MI, Rochester Senior High School

Daniella Gauthier, AZ, Cienega High School

Kathleen Ferry, NJ, Shawnee High School

Melisa Sue Conser, CA, El Toro High School

Michal Leah Isenberg, VA, Patrick Henry High School

L. M. Kent, Homeschool

Laura Libby, AZ, Canyon del Oro High School

Westrey Page, CO, Chatfield Senior High School

Sameer Desai, TX, Plano Senior High School

Nikki Fisher, CA, Sonoma Valley High School

Amanda Holmes, GA, Stockbridge High School

Chelsea Gilstrap, TX, Klein High School

Katrina Slabaugh, UT, Mountain Crest High School

Nikki Look, CO, Douglas County High School

Ellen Ly, CA, Saddleback High School

Natalee Ranii-Dropcho, PA, Pine-Richland High School

Marcel Franjieh, MA, Foxborough Regional Charter School

Eva Nichols, AZ, Catalina Foothills High School

Michelle Slater, CT, Newington High School

Morgan Fillyaw, TN, Walker Valley High School

Nicholas Pierce, CO, Legacy High School

Di Di Wei, CO, Lakewood High School

Sharon Lewis, VT, Fair Haven Union High School

Kathryn Gardner, NJ, Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science

Dacota O’Malley, NC, Southwestern Randolph High School

Alyssa Kropp, VT, Burr and Burton Academy

Anne White, OR, Bend Senior High School

Alison Stagner, MO, Kirkwood High School

Rebecca Ricks, CA, Burroughs High School

Kristina Calvin, AK, Sitka High School

Sinclair Cohen, CA, Los Lomas High School

Sophia Lee, NJ, West Windsor Plainsboro High School

Mokshasree Atluri, MI, International Academy

Brittany Pirtle, GA, Davidson Fine Arts

Domenica Robinson, NY, Liverpool High School

Maricris Ampril, FL, Archbishop McCarthy High School

Bailey Cardinal, NJ, Scotch Plains Fanwood High School

Debora Ayala, CA, Belmont High School

Clinton Taylor Gibson, CA, Santiago High School

Morgen Ayers, TX, A&M Consolidated High School

Justin Trotter, NE, Bellevue East High School

Stephanie Brooke Morris, GA, Upson-Lee High School

Jessica Irene Tieman, IL, Lincoln Community High School

Rachel Hoile, OK, Watonga High School

Alisha Kundert, TN, Fred J. Page High School

Setana Idriss, PA, Abraham Lincoln High School

Theodore Voss, IL, Chicago Christian High School

Voncille Younan, CA, Valhalla High School

Samantha Young, Co, Northglenn High School

Kristen McGannon, NY, Brockport High School

Rachel Martin, TN, Sullivan Central High School

Alison Howard, FL, Jensen Beach High School

Jose Becerra, CA, Moreno Valley High School

John M. Wise, NM, Cibola High School

Sarah Fowler, MN, Perpich Center for Arts Education

Janny Dinh, CA, Cleveland High School

Jamie Lauren Nelson, UT, Riverton High School

Sarah Van Sise, PA, Pocono Mountain West High School

Elizabeth Mercer, WA, Federal Way High School

Lacy Dyer, WY, Burns Jr/Sr High School

Sarah Lintag Upham, HI, Admiral Arthur W. Radford High School

Caitlin Ogram, PA, Unionville High School

Kaycie Fellows, CA, Torrance High School

Elizabeth M. Dalla Betta, CO, Galileo Homeschool

Sarah Kwaak, FL, Englewood High School

Megan D’Andrea, FL, North Marion High School

 

 

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