173 Students Named IL State Scholars At Oswego D308 High Schools

OSWEGO, IL — Between Oswego High School and Oswego East High School, 173 students graduating in 2024 were designated Illinois State Scholars, the district announced Thursday.

The 68 Oswego High and 105 Oswego East seniors join the nearly 16,000 students across the country who have been named State Scholars since the designation was first introduced in 1958. The award is non-monetary; each student receives a congratulatory letter and a certificate of achievement from the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, the state's college access and financial aid agency.

"We are very proud of the students from both high schools who have achieved this honor of being recognized as Illinois State Scholars," Andalib Khelghati, Oswego Community Unit School District 308 superintendent, said in a statement. "These students exemplify not only commitment and dedication to their academic success now and in the future, but they are also our future leaders."

The following Oswego High seniors earned the designation:

Hunter Ahrens, Abigail Aughenbaugh, Declan Auton, Austin Baumann, Emily Bensinger, Madison Bliss, Sarah Bohne, Hayden Bowman, Colin Brakeall, Natalie Braun, Lauren Broome, Izabelle Cano, Sophia Clinton, Gwendolyn Dehler, Madelyn DePaul, Anna Ebervein, Lilliah Engel, Griffin Fowler, Andrew Gabaldon, Grace Garretson, Amanda Glashagel, Trevor Goodbred, Presley Goodspeed, Joseph Griffin, Madelyn Hernandez, Jakhai Hudson, Emma Ivanov, Shelby Kiss, Thomas Knight, Braden Konick, Michael Kroll, Madison Langenfeld, Ryan Lipnick, Aidan Mackniskas, Jack Macinkus, Kasey Marcum, Kyle Marquardt, Julian Martinez, Breanna McGuire, Connor McMenamin, Marion Mensah, Olivia Mikelson, Abigail Miller, Noah Mottet, Hailey Mueller, Viane Nguyen, Daniel Overstreet, Nathan Parikh, Benjamin Pavlick, Aidan Poniatowski, Kaleb Pope, Natalie Raabe, Kate Rimington, Allison Rook, Blake Sanders, Avery Schlesinger, Michael Sewart, Prabhdeep Singh, Cora Sneller, Charles Snyder, Katherine Soderlind, Rachel Sorensen, Mohan Krishna Srinivasula, Ava Taviani, Olivia Thompson, Logan Tully, Ryan Walsh and Kelly Wong.

Here are the students from Oswego East named State Scholars:

Shayaan Ahmed, Lana Alnajm, Crystabel Appah, Natalie Arias, Ethan Ashcraft, Nadin Atarchi, Cale Augustine, Ranen Bariya, Gabrielle Batchen, Isabelle Beedles, Eeshana Bhuvanesh, Gannett Bishop, Elijah Bocacao, Hannah Bolte, Logan Boyles, Paul Bramstedt, Dylan Caracci, Clark Chen, Caitlyn Cohan, Jensen Coonradt, Avery Counihan, Lilianna Daniel, Debaditya Das, Ian Paul Divinagracia, Alicia Duran, Ahmed Faisal, Ruth Galat, Geetansh Gambhir, Josslyn Gaona, Kaitlyn Gresik, Aryanna Griffin, Anya Gulbrandsen, Lauren Gunty, Denise Gutierrez, James Harrison, Emma Hastings, Alexis Herrick, Alison Hobbs, Ian Paul Hofmann, Katelin Hong, Zander Hotchkiss, Aymaan Iqbal, Makenna Iverson, Ella Johns, Emily Kalish, Landon Kangas, Caleb Kenny, Emma Kincaid, Mihira Krothapalli, Noah Ku, Winston La, Caden Laos, Gregory Abe Lazatin, Ava Lenell, Olivia Maday, Austin Mathison, David McEachnie, Abigayle Mellas, Michael Mellas, Jonathan Mezera, Jackson Mila, Ayaan Mustafa, Uma Nagarathnam, Arya Pai, Jackson Pane, Saumil Patel, Sonali Patel, Swara Patil, Julianne Pearson, Amul Prakash, Kendall Prudik, Matthew Puntney, Megan Puntney, Emiliana Rausa, Katie Ries, Sebastian Rodarte, Alexander Romero, Gavin Rommen, Aayan Roy, Ava Saalfeld, Jessica Salins, Emma Schatz, Bennett Schultz, Olivia Schwab, Sanay Sethi, Pasha Sheikh, Srinidhi Sivasubramanian, Hailey Soriaga, Manya Srivastava, Nicole Stone, Avery Stults, Ashelyn Summers, Omer Syed, Kaushik Thangasaravanan, Anna Tran, Dhairya Trivedi, Chloe Turucz, Vennela Reddy Vakati, Jackson Walter, Kate Weiss, Shemaiah Wesby, Maxwell Wheeler, Sarah Zhang and Shirley Zhuang.