Weston High School class of 2026 senior awards

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists : Pamela Hao and Jacob Zeng

National Merit Letters of Commendation: Aya Badlissi, Leah Berger, Mason Berry, Gabriel Bley, William Cahill, Annika Cai, Peter Chen, Cailyn Chien, Kirsten Choi, Sophia Chuyan, Andrew Cui, Vienna Dschung, Sofie Forsythe, Samuel Goykhman, Vivian Houston, Sasha Iskoz, Keion Jalinous, Nathaniel Ko, Rex Li, Jerry Liu, Margaret Liu, James Lundberg, Aidan Murphy, Christopher Nie, Thanai Papageorgiou, Adam Slater, Aimee Wang, Yuhui Wei, Ian Xie, and Tao Zhuang

ARDA CATALTEPE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: Sophia Chuyan

CHERYL ANNS. ANTOINE SCHOLARSHIP: Nevaeh Yancey

CLASS OF 1984 DORCHESTER-MATTAPAN-ROXBURY SCHOLARSHIPS: Laila James and D’Mani Williams

DANA W. CARTER AWARDS: Sophia Chuyan

ELLA McNUTT MORSE SCHOLARSHIP: Nevaeh Yancey

GINA FRIED MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: Florence Bangalie

HAMILTON and DELORES WYCHE SCHOLARSHIP: Florence Bangalie

HELEN V. ZOLLA AWARDS: Kirsten Choi and Sienna Niño

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WESTON/METCO AWARDS: Alexandra Kozinsky and Laila James

WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP: Luc Kvaratskhelia

ZHAOZEN WU SCHOLARSHIP: Declan Funk, Zoey Hipwood, and Sienna Niño

DRAMA AWARDS

Best Thespians Class of 2026: Logan Honeycutt, Laila James, and Duncan Oberg

Weston Friendly Society Prize: Leah Berger and Sebastián Smith

John G. Barclay Award: Himami Jamwal

Jonathan Reilly Memorial Award: Curtis Keene

PTO Award for Excellence in Business: Sofie Forsythe

BUSINESS AWARDS

PTO Award for Excellence in Business: Youshan Shu

PTO Award for Excellence in Accounting: Amil Poyau

DECA Award: Nathaniel Ko

YEARBOOK AWARDS

“Panorama” 2026 Awards: Carlie Marie Briere, Sophia Chuyan, Leanna Dinno, Savanna Ferrucci, Addison Trodden, and Aurelia Whitehouse

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AWARDS

Departmental Awards for Excellence: Excellence in AP Bio—Ava Badlissi; Excellence in Honors Forensics—Anne Moser; Excellence in Anatomy & Physiology—Samantha Malo; Excellence in Environmental Science—Isabella Fleming; Excellence in Advanced Engineering—Mason Berry

Departmental Letters of Commendation: Michelle Chen, Kirsten Choi. Natalie Feng, Savanna Ferrucci, Isabella Fleming, Owen Gold, Pamela Hao, Caitlyn Luzzi, Tanishka Singh, Addison Trodden, Solana Varela, and Tao Zhuang

PTO Award for Excellence in Science: Aya Badlissi

WELLNESS AWARDS

Excellence in Physical Education: Carlie Briere, William Dyball, Logan Honeycutt, Cadi Khan, Searcy Kilgallen, William Strik, Yuhui Wei, Aurelia Whitehouse, and Leo Zhou

Excellence in Family and Consumer Sciences: Florence Bangalie, Andrew Pettinato, and Chujun Yin PTO Award for Excellence in Wellness Education: Ryuji Nawa

WORLD LANGUAGE AWARDS

Departmental Awards for Excellence: French—Tanishka Singh; Latin—Aidan Murphy; Mandarin— Alexandra Kozinsky; Spanish—Sawyer Jacobson

Departmental Letters of Commendation: French—Jessica Bourne, Samantha Malo, Aimee Wang; Mandarin—Michael Lin, Ryuji Nawa; Spanish—Carlie Briere, Cameron Cort, Tanner Guardino, Searcy Kilgallen, Samantha Malo, and Luke Secher; Latin—Sasha Iskoz and Anthony Ohanian

PTO Award for Excellence in Foreign Language: Curtis Keene

Polyglot Awards: Bianca Bilis, Nicolas Carrillo, Matteo Harris, Ryan Hinckley, Curtis Keene, Thomas Kickham, Maya Rosen, Zoe Smallman, Sebastián Smith, Scarlett White, and Sienna Zerola

Seal of Biliteracy with Distinction: Aya Badlissi, Leah Berger, John Cutter, Efe Erdogan, Samuel Goykhman, Sofia Graupera, Daqi Guo, Sawyer Jacobson, Curtis Keene, Nathaniel Ko, Matthew Longacre, Caitlyn Luzzi, Ryuji Nawa, Christopher Nie, Sebastián Smith, Yu Qi Wang, Yuhui Wei, Chi Kuan Wu, lan Xie, Chujun Yin, Alejandro Zapata-Lucio, and Anya Zhou

Seal of Biliteracy: Luca Andrea, Gabriel Bley, Carlie Briere, Massimo Buchbinder, Ece Erdogan, Sofie Forsythe, Pamela Hao, Sasha Iskoz, Keion Jalinous, Curtis Keene, Nathaniel Ko, Alexandra Kozinsky, Michael Lin, Yinzhe Liu, Jerry Liu, Margaret Liu, Samantha Malo, Riley Ortega, Yohan Pareek, Maya Rosen, Adam Slater, Yilin Sun, Yang Sun, Linda Wang, and Jonthan Wu

MATHEMATICS AWARDS

American Invitational Mathematics Exam Qualifier: Margaret Liu

NEML Top Senior Scorer: Pamela Hao

Departmental Letters of Commendation: Sophia Chuyan, Savanna Ferrucci, Zoey Hipwood, Samantha Malo, Alex Palmer, Nicholas Polymeros, Anne Rassiger, Zoe Smallman, Solana Varela, and Finlay Wickman

Martha Zelinka Award for Excellence in Mathematics: Savanna Ferrucci

PTO Award for Excellence in Mathematics: Yuhui Wei

PTO Award for Excellence in Computer Science: Duncan Oberg

PTO Award for Excellence in Statistics: Aidan Murphy

ART AWARDS

Eleanor Magee Callow Arts Award: Tanishka Singh

PTO Awards for Excellence in Art: Anne Moser

Striving Artist Award: James Lundberg and Tao Zhuang

Greason Award: Anya Zhou

Photography Award: Nicolas Carrillo

Ceramics Award: Sasha Iskoz and Nicholas Polymeros

Graphic Design Awards: Aurelia Whitehouse

Video Production Awards: Cameron Cort and Aidan Murphy

Departmental Letters of Commendation: Annika Cai, Vivienne Dutot, Declan Funk, Alexandra Kozinsky, Luc Kvaratskhelia, Samantha Malo, Solana Varela, Yu Qi Wang, and Finlay Wickman

ENGLISH AWARDS

Departmental Letters of Commendation: Carlie Briere, Mary Brown, Cailyn Chien, Cameron Cort, Owen Gold, Samuel Goykhman, Andrew Hanson, Owain Hawkes, Ryan Hinckley, Zoey Hipwood, Kierra Jackson, Anne Moser, Christopher Nie, and Nicholas Polymeros

Wildcat Tracks Award: Anne Rassiger and Zoe Smallman

Dedication and Growth Awards: Samantha Malo and Tylanni Nawana

Aspiring Writer Awards: John Cutter and Yu Qi Wang

PTO Awards for Excellence in English: Curtis Keene

English Department Awards: Pamela Hao, Yinzhe Liu, Caitlyn Luzzi, and Thanai Papageorgiou

MUSIC AWARDS

Eastern District Senior Festival Awards: Leah Berger, Rose Callanan, Kirsten Choi, Owen Gold, Curtis Keene, Alexandra Kozinsky, Kate Krueger, Rex Li, and Yinzhe Liu

Massachusetts All-State Festival Awards: Leah Berger, Rose Callanan, Kirsten Choi, Alexandra Kozinsky, Kate Krueger, Rex Li, and Yinzhe Liu

National School Choral Awards: Leah Berger and Owen Gold

National School Orchestra Award: Kirsten Choi

John Philip Sousa Award: Rose Callanan

“Semper Fidelis” Awards for Musical Excellence: Rex Li and Solana Varela

Louis Armstrong Jazz Award: Yinzhe Liu

AP Music Theory Award: Alexandra Kozinsky

PTO Award for Excellence in Music: Sofia Graupera and Curtis Keene

Letters and Bars: Band Letters—Nathaniel Ko, Sehbu Parsekian, Oren Waxman; Band Bars—Rose Callanan, Andrew Cui, Tanner Guardino, Rex Li, Yinzhe Liu, Austin Marill, and Solana Marill; Orchestra Letters—Sebastián Smith; Orchestra Bars—Kirsten Choi, Sophia Chuyan, Sofia Graupera, and Luca Vezza; Chorus Letters—Sofie Forsythe, Alexandra Kozinsky, Jiacee Ng, and Sienna Niño; Chorus Bars—Leah Berger and Curtis Keene

HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES AWARDS

Global Citizenship Award: Vienna Dschung

Vera and Andrew J. Laska Scholarship: John Cutter

Historian Award: Nathaniel Ko

Horace S. Sears Award: Sofia Graupera

League of Women Voters’ Award: Zoe Smallman

PTO Award for Excellence in History/Social Studies: Mary Brown

Departmental Letters of Commendation in History/Social Studies: Aya Badlissi, Massimo Buchbinder, Sophia Chuyan, Natalie Feng, Isabelle Fleming, Sophie Forsythe, Owen Gold, Samuel Goykhman, Kierra Jackson, Searcy Kilgallen, Anne Moser, Thanai Papageorgiou, Sehbu Parsekian, Nicholas Polymeros, Sebastián Smith, Solana Varela and Henry Yang

THE WESTON COMMUNITY LEAGUE

French — Rose Callanan

Latin — Maya Rosen

Literary Studies — Leah Berger

Mandarin — Yang Sun

Spanish — Pamela Hao

Germeshausen Achievement Awards in Science — Natalie Feng and James Lundberg

Community Service/Citizenship Awards — Curtis Keene and Sophia Wei

FINE ARTS AWARD: Sofie Forsythe

MENSCH AWARDS: John Cutter, Ryan Hinckley, Kierra Jackson, Nathaniel Ko, Youshan Shu, and Zoe Smallman

MIKE MAHONEY AWARD: Samantha Malo

MSAA STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Tylanni Nawana

PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS: Anne Rassiger and Addison Trodden

2026 Wildcat Pride Athletic Awards

William Calvert Newell Award: Thanai Papageorgiou and Peter Walp

Andrew Pastor Memorial Awards: Peter Chen and Sienna Zerola

Kevin Rowe Ski Award: Evelyn Fine, Noah Jacoby, and lan Xie Payson Corbiere Memorial Award: Anne Moser

Joseph Naughton Memorial Awards: Jessica Bourne, Amil Poyau, and Oscar Torres Hobey Baker Award: Caleb Curran Nancy Healey Award: Isabella Fleming

Ash Baird Memorial “Go Fight Win” Award: Searcy Kilgallen

Tucky Gee Memorial Award: Nathaniel Ko

Peter Condakes Memorial Awards: Leo Kirk and D’mani Williams

Marie Butera Memorial Award: Carlie Briere

Robert Chruz Awards: Owen Gold, Thomas Kickham, and Addison Trodden

United States Army Athletic Awards: Matteo Buchbinder, Cameron Cort and Theodore Dreyer

United States Marine Corps Athletic Awards: Matteo Buchbinder, Thomas Lamb, Aidan Murphy, and Nevaeh Yancey

Stephen G. Howard Memorial Awards: Benjamin Gardner, Owain Hawkes, and Ryuji Nawa

Peter J. Foley ICE Awards: Riley Huml and Lucas Scully-Power

John Monz Awards: James Moser and Tylanni Nawana

Claude Valle Awards: Savanna Ferrucci and Andrew Pettinato

Father Graf Awards: Matteo Harris and Zoe Smallman

John S. Proctor Awards: William Goldstein, Kate Krueger, and Alex Palmer

Theodore Chandler Awards: Ryan Hinckley, and Solana Varela

The “Westie” Sportsmanship Awards

Florence Bangalie

Bianca Bilis

Nicolas Carrillo

Leanna Dinno

Vivian Houston

Thomas Keller

Sehbu Parsekian

Anne Rassiger

Oren Waxman

Mary Brown

Tanner Guardino

Avery Lehman

Lorenzo Tanzi

Andrew Cahill

Andrew Hanson

Matthew Longacre

Alexa Theriaque

William Cahill

Zoe Hipwood Riley Ortega

Linda Wang