Semifinalists: 2019 National
Merit Scholarship Program

MAHTOMEDI
MAHTOMEDI H. S.
300 Atkins, Thomas K.
742 Halverson, Abigail
200 Malinowski, William
160 Nelson, Emma K.

MANKATO

MINNESOTA
ANOKA
ANOKA H. S.
740 Bastian, Lauren L.
467 Goldenstein, Michael P.

APPLE VALLEY
APPLE VALLEY H. S.
201 LaBahn, Brady A.
EASTVIEW H. S.
456 Kotrba, John C.

BLAINE
BLAINE H. S.
712 Heinen, Camryn M.
121 Paquin, Clayton D.
455 Wagenfeld, Alexis J.
456 Wagenfeld, Brandon L.

BLOOMINGTON
THOMAS JEFFERSON H. S.
303 Maki, Charles J.
834 Martz, Ryan A.
742 Miller, Amelia M.
907 Phan, Isabella K.
000 Wammer, Emily K.
JOHN F. KENNEDY H. S.
457 Mallinger, Max C.

BRAINERD
BRAINERD H. S.
500 Schuld, Madeleine M.

BUFFALO
BUFFALO H. S.
836 Kuitunen, Emma R.
451 Otto, Mya L.

BURNSVILLE
BURNSVILLE H. S.
999 Trussell, William P.

MANKATO WEST H. S.
628 Guo, Lucas L.

EDEN PRAIRIE
EDEN PRAIRIE H. S.
451 Chen, Zixin
000 Cross, James L.
742 Han, Frank Y.
450 Jia, Jeffrey
550 Li, Crystal C.
185 Sidky, Sylvia
999 Yang, Patrick Y.
522 Yang, Tracey H.

MAPLE GROVE
PARNASSUS PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
162 Friess, Ryan R.

CHAMPLIN
CHAMPLIN PARK H. S.
450 Coenen, Andrew J.
455 Johnson, Kailey M.
628 Kroll, Vincent T.
303 Tverberg, Zachary C.

CHANHASSEN
CHANHASSEN H. S.
627 Brady, Tanner J.

CHASKA
CHASKA H. S.
470 Bartels, Rory C.

CIRCLE PINES
HOMESCHOOL
459 Lofstad, Jacob P.

COKATO
DASSEL - COKATO H. S.
628 Weckwerth, Eleanor C.

DELANO
DELANO H. S.
999 Wuerger, Gretchen E.

DULUTH
THE MARSHALL SCHOOL
457 Hahn, Max
559 Paulson, John E.

EAGAN
EAGAN H. S.
630 Duffy, Elisabeth M.
773 Huang, Kevin Y.
450 Hull, Emily M.

Park, Rachel M.
Rader, Maxwell J.
Rehm, William J.
Simning, Emme K.
Smith, Gabrielle E.
Sundem, Alison V.

MOORHEAD
MOORHEAD H. S.
302 Van Raden, Zachary J.

NEW BRIGHTON
IRONDALE H. S.
164 Carlson, Erica J.

NORTHFIELD
MENDOTA HEIGHTS
CONVENT OF THE
VISITATION SCHOOL
160 Leitner, Anna C.
000 Logeais, Bridget L.

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
OF MINNESOTA
200 Jackson, Jalen P.
185 McDaniel, Liam

NORTHFIELD H. S.
742 Bratland, Halvor
682 Hessian, Madelyn T.
999 Lawler, Elias W.

ORONOCO
MINNEHAHA ACADEMY
630 Cheng, Christina
901 Martin, Samantha
999 Mollison, Marcus A.

EDINA
EDINA H. S.
200 Abascallarson, Paul
742 Ding, Joshua F.
907 Hoedeman, Lucas A.
628 Holtmeier, Maria
303 Hou, Andrew F.
700 Kiely, Brendan J.
559 Kivimaki, Mark J.
712 Konety, Isha R.
999 Lawler, Madeline R.
999 Lonnquist, Anna
833 Mans, Henry B.
950 Molitor, Zachary A.
161 Northrup, Gillian A.
900 Randall, Elizabeth C.
830 Snyder, Anne J.

HENRY SIBLEY H. S.
459 Fischer, Vic C.
ST. THOMAS ACADEMY
467 Holmes, Peter P.
161 Kolar, Luke M.

MINNEAPOLIS
BLAKE SCHOOL NORTHRUP CAMPUS
000 Bernstein, Paige K.
000 Chang, Christopher
000 Dev, Sarina T.
000 Dombroski, Jade
000 Dombroski, Jordan B.
999 Gill, Thomas M.
000 Lee, Benjamin
000 Marmet, Zachary O.
000 Mortenson, Charles D.
000 Ronan, Nathaniel C.
000 Sell, Lily K.
185 Sinha, Sonal

ELK RIVER
ELK RIVER H. S.
162 Redepenning, Sydney G.

FAIRMONT
FAIRMONT H. S.
600 Green, Jebediah L.

BRECK SCHOOL
000 Boyer, Ethan M.
000 Johnson, Jacob A.
943 Miller, Lucia I.
185 Peterson, Thomas M.
450 Putnam, Samuel G.
000 Trautman, Lana C.

FINLAYSON
EAST CENTRAL
SECONDARY SCHOOL
451 Feist, Craig A.

CANNON FALLS
CANNON FALLS H. S.
453 Pearson, Graham K.

000
000
000
000
000
000

FOREST LAKE
FOREST LAKE H. S.
881 Werner, Rebekah R.

HOMESCHOOL
000 Lundin, Gabriel C.

HASTINGS

SOUTH H. S.
700 LaFave, Desmond E.
792 Manolis, Sophia M.

HASTINGS H. S.
999 Ketcham, Claudia A.
742 Nielsen, Brian T.

SOUTHWEST H. S.
465 Kemling, Isabella L.
303 Pekala, Mark F.

HERMANTOWN
HERMANTOWN H. S.
450 Harris, Andrew J.

WASHBURN H. S.
950 Woychick, Lucas C.

HOLDINGFORD
HOLDINGFORD H. S.
950 Ruprecht, Ava C.

MINNETONKA
HOPKINS H. S.
257 Buttress, Samuel H.

HOPKINS
BLAKE SCHOOL
773 Vojta, Grace G.

MINNETONKA H. S.
000 Alfieri, Alexi T.
000 Anundson, Cameron D.
000 Brandt, Connor M.
000 Cannon, Christine E.
000 Crabb, Alistair E.
000 Ditto, Hannah R.
000 Ell-Egermeier, Curt J.
000 Hendrickson, Annika L.
000 Heyman, Blake M.
000 Hilgemann, Christian A.
000 Kachkovsky, Nicholas A.
000 Kasprick, Matthew R.
000 Krishna, Parthiv N.
000 Levy, Joshua D.
000 Lu, Frank
000 Matteson, Dean R.
000 Mirman, Ethan S.
000 Morgan, Alexander N.
000 Ode, Jacob S.
000 Otolski, Jacob J.

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS
SIMLEY H. S.
999 Borchard, Benjamin J.

LAKEVILLE
LAKEVILLE NORTH H. S.
451 Carow, Anna M.
999 Puhek, Anna L.
LAKEVILLE SOUTH H. S.
999 Epinette, Hayden C.
999 Schobel, Maxwell P.

LONG LAKE
ORONO H. S.
161 Case, Jordan C.
000 Muth, Jacob M.
000 Pearson, McKenzie C.

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HOMESCHOOL
000 Gisi, Katherine A.

OWATONNA
OWATONNA H. S.
300 Pfeifer, Jacob R.

PLYMOUTH
PROVIDENCE ACADEMY
000 Heaney, Caitlin A.
000 Mahoney, Michael D.
000 McIntee, Connor J.
164 Munger, Gabriella I.
999 Vetter, Harrison
ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG H. S.
451 Aoki-Sherwood, Benyoshi G.
WAYZATA H. S.
999 Ahluwalia, Anika
836 Anderson, Noah
450 Andzelevich, Daniel A.
790 Bobgan, Nicholas M.
791 Bumgardner, Nathan J.
162 Chanda, Shreya
162 Chandan Reddy, Chintam
833 Chen, Geoffrey M.
830 Chen, Stephen R.
903 He, Sophia
450 Hyde, Andrew J.
454 Khadilkar, Neil M.
999 Koehler, Audrey E.
712 Kulkarni, Anish R.
628 Mukherjee, Neal
900 Perrigo, Isabella
160 Qu, Matthew T.
904 Ram, Shreya
628 Sagong, Eun
870 Shirodkar, Ruhi
303 Theiste, Ethan C.
451 Yu, Frank
185 Zafari, Sanaz
301 Zeng, Caroline

RICHFIELD
RICHFIELD H. S.
821 Toensing, Lauren N.

ROCHESTER
CENTURY H. S.
450 Boie, Brooks A.
200 Goradia, Anjali J.
600 Jin-Lee, Helen Jiayi
166 Mai, Michelle
450 Nathan, Jared H.
600 Odell, Grace K.
628 Shen, Breanna Q.
741 Zhang, Tracy X.
LOURDES H. S.
628 Boes, Samuel A.
000 Deick, Andrew F.
254 Nowakowski, Teresa C.
JOHN MARSHALL H. S.
162 Sztajnkrycer, Luke S.
MAYO H. S.
712 Dunbar, Isabella N.
907 Geng, Yuxuan
628 Kanwar, Ardaas S.
999 Kumar, Sandhya K.
451 McLellan-Cassivi, Claire J.
710 Wilder, Ingrid P.
160 Williamson, Katherine

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Minnesota (continued)
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628

Yang, William
Yao, Marcus Z.

ROSEMOUNT
ROSEMOUNT H. S.
303 Alberts, Olivia F.
450 Quan, Michelle C.

SARTELL
SARTELL H. S.
451 Hindka, Yash
720 Mechelke, Megan A.

SAVAGE
PRIOR LAKE H. S.
628 Aruldas, Rachel A.
628 Becken, Aidan J.
160 Cohn, Alexis G.
904 Mong, Carter J.

943
200

Wasson, Rachael L.
Zhu, Diana

NOVA CLASSICAL ACADEMY
843 Quinn, Ashling C.
160 Van Sloun, Margaretha R.
ST. PAUL ACADEMY AND
SUMMIT SCHOOL
450 Bergner, Adelia G.
303 Fink, Isaac A.
166 Gisser, Isabel C.
999 Hlavka, Margaret F.
450 Jaeger, Thomas E.
303 Konar-Steenberg, Gabriel
999 Moen, Maximilian R.
000 Morse, Chloe S.
740 Polley, Michaela A.
999 Pomerantz, Jonathan E.
720 Sandeen, Lucile
999 Seifert, Gabriella J.
906 Singh, Kieran P.
303 Thakkar, Nitya B.
904 Welsh, William T.
161 Yoo, Gemma H.

SCANDIA
HOMESCHOOL
999 Norcross, Aria L.

SHAKOPEE
SHAKOPEE H. S.
160 Panda, Snigdha

SHERBURN
MARTIN COUNTY WEST H. S.
454 Bachenberg, Abigail A.

SPRING LAKE PARK
LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL
000 MOONEN, CHARLES A.

ST. CLOUD
CATHEDRAL H. S.
772 Schreifels, Aleksey R.

ST. LOUIS PARK
BENILDE - ST. MARGARET'S
SCHOOL
451 Parece, Nathan
ST. LOUIS PARK H. S.
999 Krebs, Yonit S.
870 Lee, Alexis A.
628 Ostrovsky, Jack R.
950 Rusley, Beck A.

ST. MICHAEL
ST. MICHAEL - ALBERTVILLE
SCHOOL
000 Lish, Jacob D.

ST. PETER
ST. PETER H. S.
462 Burgess, Yana J.

STILLWATER
STILLWATER AREA H. S.
254 Banks-Hehenberger, Abigail R.
303 Maloney, John M.
466 Roll, Elias S.
628 Walker, Keenan

WACONIA
WACONIA H. S.
160 Martel, Alina A.

WOODBURY
EAST RIDGE H. S.
450 Hallstrom, Jonas L.
450 Liu, Christopher
303 Restad, Leah M.
171 Severude, Christine E.
164 Tao, Alexis M.
MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY
162 Li, Anna X.
WOODBURY H. S.
999 Adomavicius, Andrius
870 Chan, Kayla
628 Checka, Nidhi
163 Li, David B.
170 Li, Jenny J.
904 Maier, Luke C.

ST. PAUL
CENTRAL H. S.
160 Le Meur, Sophie A.
990 Ostergren, Mary I.
999 Solakhava, Mikhalina
830 Zarkower, Jasper B.
832 Zielske, LeighAnna I.
HIGHLAND PARK H. S.
741 Alden, Nathaniel A.
619 Harrelson, Isabel A.
457 Lipstein, Alexis A.
MOUNDS PARK ACADEMY
454 Manicka, Ajay Y.
250 Peterson, Henry G.
MOUNDS VIEW H. S.
450 Cao, Michael
185 Chen, Lucy
628 Gao, Sophie J.
832 Huberty, Mason S.
123 Kim, Eliot J.
166 Li, Rebecca Y.
454 Moller, Nathaniel P.
451 Neafus, Thomas E.
999 Pak, Michael T.
303 Palmer, Eric K.
999 Shen, Ming
300 Su, Grace D.
453 Swensen, Erik D.
185 Syed, Maha
185 Vijayakumar, Aarthi V.
301 Vijayakumar, Abhishek
600 Wang, Michelle J.

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