Schools
More Than 200 Seniors Honored in Ceremony
The high school hands out awards and scholarships for a variety of different achievements.
More than 200 of the high school's seniors were recognized Monday, receiving awards and scholarships for both school, and non-school, related activities and organizations at the annual ceremony.
Students at were invited to attend the ceremony, but were not told what they were set to receive. They found out with the audience during the ceremony, and programs were handed out the end with all the award-winners.
"We are very very proud of this group of students," said BRHS principal James Riccobono.
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NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FINALISTS
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- Srinivasa Bhattaru
- Michael Chu
- Kira Jacobson
- Seung Yeon Lee
- Wendy Liu
- Carly O'Connell
- Julia O'Connell
- Shane Patel
- Kevin Qi
- Amy Song
- Kevin Sun
- Katherine Wullert
- Daniel Zhang
- Rachel Zhao
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP COMMENDED STUDENTS
- Kristy Accetta
- Lucy Ayers
- Janet Cai
- Brian Caluri
- Lavanya Chakrapani
- Allison Chau
- Katherine Chung
- Saumil Dave
- William Forster
- Abhinav Gabbeta
- Julia Guazzo
- Rachel Han
- Martin Kim
- Kaveesh Kutty
- Ryan Lakritz
- Karras Lambert
- Danielle MacMath
- Derek MacMath
- Surabhi Menon
- Nicholas Montano
- Prashanth Palvannan
- Christopher Rathnam
- Jonathan Rodernanr
- Troy Sewell
- Kathryn Tkach
- Michael Tzeng
- Amanda Vo
- Sherry Wu
- Henry Xiang
- George Xu
- Debra Yan
- April Yin
- Connie Zhao
- Denice Zhu
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
- Wendy Liu
NATIONAL MERIT SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
- Shane Patel—National Merit James E. Casey Scholarship
- Kevin Sun—National Merit Maw E. Beverle Scholarship
- Katherine Wullert—National Merit Telcordia Scholarship
NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
- Rosemary Saal—Outstanding Participant
SOMERSET COUNTY ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Kevin Sun
KlWANlS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Kevin Sun
SOMERSET COUNTY SCHOOL NURSE'S ASSOCIATION FUTURE NURSE SCHOLARSHIP
- Lydia Carra
UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY
- Antonio Amavisca
JOSEPH SICOLA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Jake Wilgocki
CHRIS WARD MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Sara Marin
- Samantha Sherman
PERFECT ATTENDANCE FOR FOUR YEARS AT BRHS
- Mary Shannon Carroll
- Peter Chiu
- Jake Chou
- Rachel Horowitz
- Nicholas Montano
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS SCHOLASTIC EXCELLENCE AWARD
- Megan Carroll
- Sarah West
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS DISTINGUISHED ATHLETE AWARD
- Kathleen Fanning
- Connor Smith
ARMY RESERVE NATIONAL SCHOLAWATHLETE AWARD
- Haley Alvarez
- Robert Grill
WENDY'S HIGH SCHOOL HEISMAN AWARD
- Julianna Davis
- Jake Ruskan
THE SOMERSET COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Angela Philipsheck
TRAINMASTER'S SCHOLARSHIP
- Angela Philipsheck
BALLIET SCHOLARSHIP
- Angela Philipsheck
ROB FELLOWS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Angela Philipsheck
WEGMANS SCHOLARSHIP
- David Achinstein
- Nicole Castro
- Michael Horan
- Jason Rosen
- Connor Smith
ROBERT M. FOGARTY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Eric Zinnikas
BRIDGEWATER WOMEN'S CLUB BELVA LOCKWOOD HUGHSON MEMORIAL
- Jessica Sergio
BRIDGEWATER WOMEN'S CLUB
- Sarah Bartolett
THIRD REFORMED CHURCH
- Seung Yeon Lee
COUNSELING & THERAPY SERVICES
- Megan O'Connor
COUNSELING & THERAPY SERVICES HONORARIUM
- Alison Reda
SYAGE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
- Stephen Wallace
RARITAN REPUBLICAN CLUB
- Kathryn Gausz
DOLFE BARBERI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Steven Morgan
ETHICON, INC.
- Natassia Aravind
- Shalini Chalikonda
- Abhinav Gabbetta
- Priya Jain
- Rohit Rangroo
- Amy Song
FRANK AND AUDREY DITTMAN SCHOLARSHIP, AND LEONARD AND ADELE BLUMBERG SCHOLARSHIP
- Janet Cai
- Lydia Carra
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION STUDENT RECOGNITION
- Srinivasa Bhattaru
- Megan Carroll
- Kevin Sun
- Amanda Vo
- Katherine Wullert
- Daniel Zhang
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Kimberly Costanzo
JAMES C. KELLY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Olympia Sciortino
ANDREW J. AND DOLORES C. HUDEC MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- William Neil Stone
- Emily Woznick
HINDU TEMPLE AND CULTURAL SOCIETY BRIDGEWATER EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Brendon Lichtig
- Sherry Wu
SGT. LARRY WORTH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP BRIDGEWATER POLICEMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOC. LOCAL #174
- Sara Semple
- Daniel Sperling
BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP POLICE HONOR GUARD SCHOLARSHIP
- Sara Semple
DANIELLE FEDORTION MEMORIAL
- Christopher Alaimo
- Collin Melton
- Thomas Rinaldi
- Melissa Silverman
ST. CLAIR FAMILY SPEECH AND DEBATE AWARD
- Prashanth Paivannan
- Kevin Sun
BRIDGEWAY SENIOR HEALTH CARE SCHOLARSHIP
- Lydia Carra
HARRIS COHEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Julia Guazzo
- Benjamin Silber
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN BOARD OF EDUCATION
- Kevin Sun
- Katherine Wullert
MICHAEL E. DOLEGIEWITZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Marissa DaSilva
- Daniel Sutter
RARITAN POST WAR CLUB SCHOLARSHIP
- Asia Caiazzo
- Brittany D'Agostino
- Jessica Lattanzio
- Karla Restrepo
BRADLEY GARDENS SCHOOL PTO BERNICE FRANCHINO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Meaghan McCarthy
MARY ZSUFFA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Danielle MacMath
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL #5959, THE JOSEPH P. MARINACCIO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Dana Hayes
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL #5959
- Collin Melton
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL #5959
- Morgan Patullo
- Austin Perry
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS OUR LADY OF THE HILLS COUNCIL #5959 MICHAEL E. KANE MEMORIAL AWARD
- Morgan Patullo
ANDREW J. HABERLE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Dayna Smith
CORNELIUS AND GLADYS HOBBS SCHOLARSHIP
- Tashima Dally
BEACON AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT
- Angela Philipsheck
BEACON AWARD FOR SERVICE
- Jessica Lattanzio
MILLINGTON SAVINGS BANK
- Jasmine Buess
- Andrew Grant
ALEXANDRA & RONALD VITALE EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP
- Kathleen Fanning
RYAN WILLIAM FLEDERBACH SCHOLARSHIP
- Forde George
DR. JOSEPH P. McGARRY SCHOLARSHIP
- Kathryn Gausz
HARRY ROBINSON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Morgan Hofacker
SOMERVILLE ELKS LODGE B.P.O.E. 1068 HIGH SCHOOL OUTSTANDING SENIOR OF THE YEAR AWARD
- Lucy Ayers
- Martin Kim
SANFORD ORTHODONTICS SCHOLARSHIP
- Tanner McWain
THE EPIC AWARD
- Kathryn Guasz
- Lydia Carra
- Allyson Gruber
- Kaitlyn Quinones
PROWLER AWARD
- Syjil Ashraf
LITERARY MAGAZINE AWARD
- Jasmine Chen
- Meaghan McCarthy
DRAMA AWARDS
- Michael Bayruns
- Gabriela Ber
- Kristen Ferris
- Nufar Herzberg
- Rotem Herzberg
- Timothy Higgins
- Danielle McMath
- Derek McMath
- Aerin McCurdy
- Carly O'Connell
- Julia O'Connell
- Anna Rabkin
- Tara Simpson
- Brett Taggart
- Julia Velmer
- Jonathan Wojcik
- Katherine Wullert
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT SERVICES AWARD
- Nicholas Pepe
STUDENT SERVICES SCHOLARSHIP
- Jessica Lattanzio
- Adam Pyle
DEPARTMENT OF STUDENT SERVICES TRANSITION SCHOLARSHIP
- Thomas Bell
JUDITH CAHALL SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Jenna McBride
- Hui Zheng
BONNIE MECH MEMORIAL BUSINESS AWARD
- Corinna LaMorte
- Kelsey Opalack
THE JOAO JOSE "JOHN" SANTOS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION AWARD
- Julia Guazzo
ALBA ABBOTT MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Nancy May
NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
- Ryan Le
- Brendon Lichtig
- Troy O'Conner
- Morgan Patullo
- Matthew Slodziak
- Daniel Sperhg
STUDENT COUNCIL AWARDS
The Council Achievement Award
- Emanuel Goldberg
- Matthew Jacobs
- Danielle McGrady
- Michelle North
The Distinguished Excellence Award
- Sarah Bray
- Keefer Wurmstich
The John Basilone Leadership Award
- Lydia Carra
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN WORLD LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
Excellence in Chinese
- Carly O'Connell
- Julia O'Connell
Excellence in French
- Sherry Wu
Excellence in German
- Jennifer Wachtel
Excellence in Italian
- Katherine Wullert
Excellence in Latin
- Danielle Prongay
Excellence in Spanish
- Saumil Dave
STEUBEN SOCIETY AWARD
- Michael Tzeng
F. KIRBY MAPLES MEMORIAL AWARD
- Antonio Amavisca
ALAN D. MITTLEMAN MEMORIAL AWARD
- Kevin Sun
ANTHONY RICCIARDI MEMORIAL AWARD
- Brandon DeMauro
JOHN HENNINGER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR GERMAN
- Troy Sewell
JOHN HENNINGER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR WORLD LANGUAGES
- Cherry Zamudio
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Srinivasa Bhattaru
- Zachary Fischer
WILLIAM APSLEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
- Samantha Sherman
SANOFI-AVENTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CHEMISTRY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
- Troy Sewell
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT EXCELLENCE IN CHEMISTRY
- Prashanth Palvannan
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT EXCELLENCE IN BIOLOGY
- Daniel Zhang
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT EXCELLENCE IN PHYSICS
- Zachary Fischer
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
- Jonathan Rodemann
SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Jenna McBride
- Danielle Prongay
- Kevin Sun
- Katherine Wullert
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION OLD WHITEHOUSE—GENERAL FRELINGHUYSEN COLONEL LOWREY CHAPTER GOOD CITIZEN AWARD
- Gregory Dahl
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
- Robert Grill
- Megan O'Connor
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Shane Patel
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONSISTENT ACHIEVEMENT AND EFFORT IN ENGLISH
- Sara West
BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Overall Business Education Program
- Evan Rallis
Academic Intern Program
- Yadira Santana
Accounting Program
- Erika Yeung
Computer Program
- Eric Zinnikas
THE IMAGE SYSTEMS GROUP SCHOLARSHIP
- Kevin Sun
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES DEPARTMENT
Awarded for excellence in all Areas
- Kimberly Tran
Awarded for excellence in Fashion Design
- Casey Sobel
Awarded for excellence in Family and Child
- Jessica Sergio
Awarded for excellence in Foods
- Nicholas Zamora
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
AutoCAD
- Tara Roth
Wood Technology
- Dylan Ash
ART DEPARTMENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING OVERALL ACHIEVEMENT IN FINE ART
- Tessa Lewis
- Daniel Hopkins
MUSIC DEPARTMENT AWARD
- Kira Jacobson
NATIONAL SCHOLAR CHORAL AWARD
- Gabriela Ber
CHORAL DIRECTOR'S AWARD
- Kevin Shoemaker
CHORAL MUSIC AWARD
- Kelysey Bryden
- Michelle Librojo
- Danielle MacMath
- Troy Mapa
- Victoria Richardson
- Maggie Shun
- Julia Velmer
- Katherine Wullert
- Debra Yan
BRHS OUTSTANDING SOLOIST AWARD
- Tara Simpson
NATIONAL SCHOOL ORCHESTRS AWARD
- Seung Yeon Lee
ORCHESTRA AWARD
- Julie Battikha
- Devika Baxi
- Janet Cai
- Michael Chu
- James Copti
- Ryan Lakritz Kaitlin Schwartz
- April Yin
THE CONNIE TARANTINO MUSIC MEMORIAL AWARD
- Allison Chau
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN DISTRICT PTO SCHOLARSHIPS
- Christopher Alaimo
- Robert Barrows
- Julie Battikha
- Jasmine Buess
- Robert Brannigan
- Sarah Bray
- Kelsey Bryden
- Brittany Buckmire
- Janet Cai
- Theodore Cambilis
- Jacqueline Cardile
- Monica Castle
- Joyce Chang
- Allison Chau
- Michael Chiang
- Brandon DeMauro
- Charlotte DiMatteo
- Martin Dion
- Kaitlyn Doherty
- Kristen Ferris
- Mark Fritzen
- Cristian Gam boa
- Rachel Han
- Shruthi Harve
- Daniel Hopkins
- Kathleen llsley
- Matthew Kunsman
- Trevor LaMountain
- Wendy Liu
- Derek MacMath
- Natale Mazzaferro
- Scott McClymont, Jr
- Collin Melton
- Surabhi Menon
- Nicholas Montano
- Ngoc Nguyen
- Trang Nguyen
- Michelle North
- Kristen Pallatta
- Morgan Patullo
- Kyle Paustian
- Veda Pejaver
- Alyssa Posner
- Kevin Qi
- Anna Rabkin
- Alison Reda
- Ashley Sabol
- Samantha Sherman
- Michael Sobczak
- Lisa Tkach
- Annie Truss
- Jessica Venturelli
- Rebecca Zhou
- Yaping Zou
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL PTO HONORARIUMS
- Natassia Aravind
- Michael Avellan
- Daniel Bearnarth
- Katherine Caola
- Mary Shannon Carroll
- Shalini Chalikonda
- Muneeza Chaudhry
- Sarah Cooke
- Hillary Cornick
- Anthony Cuuola
- Caroline Davis
- Julianne Davis
- Jack Dimmit
- Melanie Dodds
- Jake Esposito
- William Forster
- Kevin Fu
- Abhinav Gabbeta
- Lynn Germaske
- Alexa lannelli
- Priya Jain
- Onofrio Lopreiato
- Miranda Ma
- Sara Marin
- Christina Meola
- Steven Morgan
- Scott Murray
- Sakal Narula
- Tara Ozeransky
- Purandhri Pandya
- Parth N, Patel
- Rohit Rangroo
- Jake Ruskan
- Amy Song
- Kathryn Tkach
- Jordan Weinstein
- Jane Yan
- Connie Zhao
- Rachel Zhao
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL PTO SELECT HONORARIUMS
- Islam Anous
- Mickal Avant
- Kelsey Bray
- Chelsea Brown
- Nicholas Dante
- Danielle LaJeunesse
- Cora Levine
- Lauren Loiselle
- Sean Lyons
- Alison Martinez
- Nancy May
- Jessica Nagle
- Valeria Rojas
- Katherine Van Riper
- Lauren Yutko
COUNCIL OF SCHOOLS HONORARIUMS
- Evan Carson
- Bianca Caseiro
- Lidia Cirianni
- Michael Giordano
- Nichotas Gothier
- Kenneth Goydan
- Elizabeth Kowalsky
- Sairam Kripsagar
- Andrew Lee
- Simone Lee
- Megan Musz
- Pooja Nair
- Evan Newbold
- Kenny Nguyen
- Michael Pannullo
- Raymon Villanueva
- Lorezelle Yanga
BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL PANTHER ATHLETIC CLUB AWARDS
- Haley Alvarez
- Brian Barr
- Kelsey Bray
- Julianne Davis
- Jack Dimmit
- Stephen Eesley
- Kathleen Fanning
- Christine Germaski
- Lynn Germaski
- Matthew Jacobs
- Wendy Liu
- Andrew Lyman
- Scott McLymont Jr.
- Troy O'Connor
- Tara Ozeransky
- Christopher Scott
- Samantha Sherman
- Benjamin Silber
- Daniel Sutter
- Annie Truss
HRINKOIGALIDA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
- Scott McClymont
EISENHOWER PTO SCHOLARSHIP
- Kaitlyn Teeling
CARMELO SCIORTINO "PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE" SCHOLARSHIP
- Melanie Greco
- Matthew Jacobs
- Olympia Sciortino
- Benjamin Silber
- Keefer Wurmstich
POP WARNER SCHOLARSHlP
- Albert John Bartocci
- Hayley Ortmann
- Tara Ozeransky
- Kristen Pallatta
- Ashley Sabol
- Conner Smith
- Kaitlyn Teeling
- Tyler Thomas
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