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BH Board Honors Students for Athletic, Academic Achievements

More than 100 students were honored by the Berkeley Heights Board of Education last Thursday at Columbia Middle School.

At the Berkeley Heights Board of Education meeting last Thursday, numerous students were called up, one by one, to be honored for their accomplishments during the 2011-2012 School Year.

The students honored for their accomplishments are as follows:

2012 Science Olympiad - “Write It Do It” - 2nd in State

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  • Samuel Muriello
  • Michael Russell           

2012 Science Olympiad - “Remote Sensing” - 3rd in State

  • Aaron Sleopi
  • Zachary Friedlander            

Merck State Science Exam

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  • Danielle Rosenthal – Advanced Integrated Test – 1st in County

Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)

11th - 12th grade team

3rd in State, All Divisions

  • Brittin Boening
  • Scott Buchanan
  • Vivian Chu
  • Alison Kao
  • Margaret Orton
  • Aaron Slepoi
  • Theodore Weber
  • Jason Yang

Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)

9th - 10th grade team

2nd in the State, All Divisions

  • Alex Beinstock
  • William Radin
  • Uday Manchanda
  • Andrew Savino
  • Mukta Phatak
  • Michael Mark Watson
  • Kira Prabhu
  • Laura Young

Berkeley Heights Veterans of Foreign Wars “Voice of Democracy” Essay Contest

Local Winners

  • Danielle Amatucci 
  • Emily Harriott
  • Cornelia Wacaster

Berkeley Heights League of Woman Voters “Citizenship” Award

  • Lauren Santullo

New Jersey Future Business Leaders of America    

  • Dennis Bienstock – 1st Place “Help Desk”
  • William Reis – 1st Place “Business Procedures”

ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam - Latin 2

  • Emily Harriott - Gold Summa Cum Laude             
  • Emily Xu - Silver Maxima Cum Laude
  • Dylan Sayasith - Silver Maxima Cum Laude
  • Kelly Endres - Silver Maxima Cum Laude
  • Alec Dougherty - Silver Maxima Cum Laude
  • Helen Zhang - Magna Cum Laude

ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam - Latin 3

  • Ariana Chuba - Gold Summa Cum Laude               
  • Camelia Hegarty - Silver Maxima Cum Laude   
  • Mark Korn - Silver Maxima Cum Laude
  • Ian Fan - Silver Maxima Cum Laude  
  • William Bunyaner - Magna Cum Laude
  • Ian St. Clair - Magna Cum Laude
  • Jonathan Drori - Magna Cum Laude

ACL/NJCL National Latin Exam - Latin 4

  • Zachary Friedlander - Gold Summa Cum Laude  
  • Zachary Friedlander – National Latin Exam Committee – Maureen O’Donnell Memorial Award (Four Consecutive Years Gold Summa Cum Laude)
  • Nicholas Rubino – Silver Maxima Cum Laude                           

IACE - Italian

  • Nicole Calegari - Summer Program in Narni, Italy  

Individual Union County Champion

  • Amanda Amezquita – Girls’ Spring Track – Pole Vault & Pole Vault Relay
  • Anthony Bucci – Boys’ Winter & Spring Track – 3200 Meter Run
  • Michael Drummond – Boys’ Spring Track – High Jump Relay
  • Ryan Hoy – Wrestling – 132 lbs.
  • Elijah Kay – Boys’ Winter Track – High Jump & Boys’ Spring Track – High Jump Relay
  • Rendyll Moorman – Boys’ Spring Track – High Jump Relay
  • Erica Stevenson – Girls’ Spring Track – Pole Vault Relay
  • Laura Tierney – Girls’ Tennis – Second Singles

 Individual Union County & District XII Champion

  • Jonathan Mele – Wrestling – 113 lbs.

NJSIAA Sectional Champion

  • Christian Guerrero – Boys’ Spring Track – 4x400 Meter Relay
  • Elijah Kay – Boys’ Winter Track & Boys’ Spring Track – High Jump
  • Michael Murphy – Boys’ Spring Track – 100 meter dash & 4x400 Meter Relay
  • Zakaria Rochdi – Boys’ Spring Track – 4x400 Meter Relay  
  • Brian Simone – Boys’ Spring Track – 4x400 Meter Relay

NJSIAA Group 2

  • Anthony Bucci – Boys’ Spring Track – 3rd Place in 3200 Meter Run
  • Christian Guerrero  –  Boys’ Spring Track  –  2nd Place Intermediate Hurdles
  • Elijah Kay  – Boys’ Spring Track  –  3rd Place High Jump
  • Rendyll Moorman  –  Boys’ Spring Track  –  Champion – High Jump
  • Michael Murphy  –  Boys’ Spring Track  –  Champion – 100 Meter Dash, 2nd Place 200 Meter Dash, 3rd Place 400 Meter Run

Blue Devil Invitational Champion  –  Scotland Preston

Girls’ Varsity Softball Team – Union County Champions

  • Emily Beisser
  • Stephanie Cataldo
  • Monica Chien
  • Alexandra Fetter
  • Colleen Frank
  • Kelly Goense
  • Carolynne Goldbeck
  • Megan Kingsley
  • Jenna Kulback
  • Jessie Merone
  • Paige Murphy
  • Payton Murphy
  • Abigail Pires
  • Jordan Robbins
  • Grace Sanzalone
  • Jennifer Vislocky
  • Kacie Worswick

Milestone

  • Logan Kelley – Boys’ Basketball – All-time leading scorer/GLHS Record 1,324 Career Points
  • Stephanie Pinto – Girls’ Lacrosse – 119 Career Goals
  • Alyssa Polimeni – Girls’ Basketball – 1115 Career Points

GLHS Record

  • Joshua Boyle — Boys’ Winter Track – Sprint Medley
  • Anthony Bucci – Boys’ Winter Track – Distance Medley & Boys’ Spring Track – 4x800 Meter Relay
  • Olga Caballero – Girls’ Spring Track – 4x100 Meter Relay
  • Anthony Carannante –Boys’ Winter Track – Distance Medley
  • Aidan Donadio – Swimming – 100 yd. Breaststroke
  • Michael Drummond – Boys’ Spring Track – Long Jump Relay/High Jump Relay
  • John Friedlander – Boys’ Spring Track – 4x800 Meter Relay
  • Christian Guerrero – Boys’ Winter Track – 4x400 relay/Sprint Medley & Boys’ Spring Track – Long Jump/Long Jump Relay/Intermediate & High Hurdle/Intermediate Hurdle Relay/4x100,4x200,4x400 Meter Relays       
  • Caroline Henderson – Swimming – 200 yd. Relay
  • Ronald Jordan – Boys’ Spring Track – Intermediate Hurdle Relay/4x100, 4x200 Meter Relays
  • Elijah Kay – Boys’ Spring Track – High Jump Relay        
  • Autumn Ledgin – Swimming – 200 yd. Relay
  • Jennifer Leonard – Swimming – 200 yd. Relay
  • Dylan Levine – Boys’ Winter Track – 4x400 relay/Sprint Medley/Distance Medley & Boys’ Spring Track – 4x800 Meter Relay
  • Rendyll Moorman – Boys’ Spring Track – High Jump/High Jump Relay/Long Jump Relay       
  • Michael Murphy – Boys’ Winter Track – 4x400 Relay/Sprint Medley & Boys’ Spring Track – 100 & 200 Meter Dash/4x100,4x200,4x400 Meter Relays/Intermediate Hurdle Relay    
  • Rachel Nilan – Girls’ Spring Track – 4x100 Meter Relay
  • Grace O’Brien – Girls’ Spring Track – 4x100 Meter Relay
  • Abigail Pires – Swimming – 200 yd. Relay
  • Michelle Reedy – Girls’ Spring Track 4x100 Meter Relay
  • Zakaria Rochdi – Boys’ Spring Track – 4x200 & 4x400 Meter Relays
  • Andrew Romeo – Boys’ Spring Track – 4x100 Meter Relay
  • Brian Simone – Boys’ Winter Track – 4x400 relay/Distance Medley & Boys’ Spring Track – 4x400 & 4x800 Meter Relays

2012 National Merit Scholarship Program “Finalist” 

  • Alison Kao

2012 National Merit Scholarship Program “Commended Student”

  • Diane Alexander
  • Scott Buchanan
  • Melanie-Marie Cuccioli
  • Megan Kingsley
  • Arabella Pluta-Ehlers
  • Madelyn Reese
  • Brendan Schneider
  • Matthew Silverman
  • Kerry Stahlin
  • Daniel Sullivan
  • Logan Turner
  • Yiching Wu

Wallenberg Foundation of New Jersey Scholar

  • Nicolas Gomez

2011 Union County Superintendents’ Roundtable “Outstanding Scholar”

  • Scott Buchanan
  • Logan Turner         

Union County School Counselors’ Association “We Care” Scholarship

  • Peter Dolshan 

Perfect SAT Score

  • Scott Buchanan - Math
  • Alison Kao - Reading & Writing
  • Arabella Pluta-Ehlers – Writing
  • Danielle Rosenthal - Math & Writing
  • Yiching Wu – Math

2012 Union County Administrators’ “Student Recognition

  • Max Louis Menaker

2012 “All-State Chorus”

  • Steven LaMaita
  • Shannon Morgan
  • Mukta Phatak
  • Alessia Santoro

Morris Museum Juried Art Show

  • Grace Boyle - “Fresh Perspectives”

2012 Teen Arts Touring Exhibit

  • Lillian Barreto - “Sculptural Piece”
  • Amanda Berlinski - “Digital Photo Transfer”
  • Laura Young - “Solarized Painting” 


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