There are 213 Greater Cincinnati students among 16,000 named semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Corp.'s 47th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

        Among them were nine seniors at Summit Country Day School, about 11 percent of the school's graduating class of 81. Cincinnati Public Schools had 18 semifinalists from three schools.

        St. Xavier High School, with 27 semifinalists, had the greatest number of any Tristate high school, followed by Sycamore, with 15, and CPS' Walnut Hills, with 14.

        The students represent less than 1 percent of the nation's high school seniors. The number of semifinalists in each state is proportional to its percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

        The students are eligible to compete for 8,000 Merit Scholarship awards, worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring. The students were among 1.2 million teens enrolled in 20,000 high schools who entered the 2002 program by taking the 2000 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

        About 90 percent of the semifinalists will be named finalists based on submission of SAT scores and a detailed scholarship application that each student and a school official jointly submit. It includes an essay by the student, information about participation and leadership in school, community activities, and a recommendation from the principal.

        The semifinalists:

OHIO
       

Butler County

       

        • Cincinnati Christian: Stephanie Smith

        • Edgewood: Adam Burley

        • Fairfield: Sarah Johnson, Allison Schaaf, Elizabeth Sheyn

        • Bishop Fenwick: Mark Thomas, Benjamin Williams

        • Hamilton: Kevin Lloyd

        • Lakota East: Andrew Dean, Margaret Penner, Chenwei Wu

        • Lakota West: Noha Elmouelhi, Eric Laugel, Amir Manji, Eric Schwartz

        • Ross: David Shane

        • Talawanda: Anne Arlinghaus, Betsy Gates, Nicholas Matteo, David Miller, Jonathan Saas
       

Clermont County

        • Amelia: Lauren Freedman

        • Glen Este: Nasheed Hossain

        • Milford: Benjamin Kilbarger, John Lamar
       

Clinton County
       

        • Wilmington: Joseph Lohrum
       

Hamilton County

        • Anderson: Mark Berghausen, Katherine Dennis, Nathaniel Downs, Amanda Johnson, Robin Maslowski, Valeri Ralph, Alyson Zureick.

        • Cincinnati Country Day: Katherine Cordes, Janna DeVries, Jane Dimmitt, Allison Greenberg, Charles Kulwin, Emily Smith.

        • Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy: Cameron Cooper, Amanda Edwards.

        • Clark Montessori: Sarah Martina

        • Colerain: Elizabeth Noelcke

        • Elder: Mark Byrnes, Michael Neumann, Michael Ott

        • Finneytown: Caroline Roberts

        • William Henry Harrison: Elizabeth Brogden

        • Indian Hill: William Dewitt, Tyler Merritt, Lisa Schilling, Tegan Strickland, Stuart Wulsin

        • Loveland: Roman Elking, Benjamin Lucas

        • Madeira: Hongyi Hu, Zachary Orjuela, Katrina Schrode, Andrew Tohline

        • Mariemont: Stephen Carley, Charles Kranitzky, Victoria Thoman

        • McAuley: Kimberly Vogt

        • McNicholas: Anthony Calabrese, Kate Kloppenborg, David McClellan, John Murphy, Matt Reinhart, Tim Severyn, Heather Splain, Michael Wegman, Charles P. Young

        • Moeller: Abhijit Mehta, David Tull

        • Mount Notre Dame: Hanna Hoffman

        • North College Hill: Rick Umbach

        • Northwest: Tanya Thompson

        • Oak Hills: Leah Fosco, Lauren Kuley

        • Princeton: Jenna Aprahamian, Matthew Brockmeier, Maria Foley, Jennifer George, Holly Joachimi, Kara Kuresman, Sandra Sprong, Jason Strauss, Elliott Wood

        • School for Creative and Peforming Arts: Eliza Buhrer, Kathryn Cosse, Evan Kuhlman

        • Seven Hills Upper School: Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jason Edelstein, Nathaniel Filardo, Charles Fletcher, Mark Hines, Rachel Hoffheimer, Diana Huntress, Addison Lanier, Carina Peschiera, Randall Rubinstein, Philip Vogel

        • St. Ursula Academy: Emily Leonhardt, Christina Palazzolo, Colleen Skau

        • St. Xavier: Andrew Benedetti, Michael Burch, Joshua Cepluch, Daniel Chambers, Christopher Connelly, Nathan Denning, Michael Derge, John Duffner, Stephen Hernick, Kevin Hess, Andrew Jeon, Nathan Camps, Brian McCall, Marc Mergy, Christoffer Molnar, Clayton Morris, David Mustard, Anthony Robertson, Bryon Rosen, Robert Schrimpf, Andrew Schwieter, Andrew Smith, John Sweeney, Christopher Wait, Kevin Walsh, Bryan Wilson, Micah Zeller

        • Summit Country Day: Lydia Balmos, Jason Carreon-Chua, Steven Long, Lauren Manning, Tracy Moore, Don Regensburger, Daniel Reynolds, Steven Stickle, Caroline Wells.

        • Sycamore: Theodore Berry, Carolyn Bills, Chris Domas, Rachel Lee, Fima Macheret, Megan Powers, Eugene Pyatigorsky, Michal Rosenn, John "Kenny' Schoeni, Shubha Singh, Andrew Suszko, Jeffrey Warshaw, Nathalie Williams, Zachary Yoscovits, Shiyi Zhao.

        • Turpin: Andrew McCalmont, Jim Reilly

        • Ursuline Academy: Deborah Dryer, Andrea Kelley, Jessica Love, Shamantha Reddy, Bridget Schoeny

        • Walnut Hills: Alex Bennett, Daniel Cissell, Leah Frank-Finney, Rebecca Gafvert, Isaac Glassman, Evan Kereiakes, Sam Lachterman, Jessica Lewis, Tristan Linck, Jonathan Lipps, Lesley Messer, Ryan Moulton, Isaac Rethy, Audrey Stewart

        • Wyoming: Nicholas Fritzhand, Elinor Kasting, Andrew Kersten, Megan Meyer, Alexis Schmitt, Michael Schroer, Scott Shimp.
       

Warren County
        • Little Miami: Katya Harfmann

        • Mason: Brian Altherr, Llya Borodulin, A. Kiley DePolo, Daniel Story, Loriann Wootten

        • Springboro: Mary Saluke, Melanie Thomasson
       

Home schooled
        Hillary Bussell, Cincinnati; Alexander Law, Loveland; Adrielle Heath, Wilmington

KENTUCKY

        • Beechwood: Evan Brothers

        • Bishop Brossart: Justin Franzen

        • Covington Latin: Alexander Hall, David Johnson

        • Highlands: Samuel Christy

        • Holmes: Laura Berry, Stephanie Dziczek

        • Lloyd Memorial (Erlanger): Timothy Cooper

        • Newport Central Catholic: Christina Blust, Chris Kaiser

        • Notre Dame Academy: Caitlin Shaughnessy

        • Ryle: Christopher Krabbenhoeft, Charles McCloud, Nathan Pinney, Athena Wong

        • Scott: William Pennington

        • Villa Madonna Academy: Patricia Gaunder

INDIANA

        • Connersville: Cordelia Boersma

        • Franklin Community: Matthew McMillion

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