{"id":822,"date":"2013-05-01T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2013-05-01T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T22:03:14","slug":"kennett-high-students-receive-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Kennett High students receive recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awards ranged from cheerleading to cosmetology<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Kennett High students have achieved recognition recently for accomplishments ranging from academic to cheerleading.<\/p><\/div>\n

Kennett High students have received accolades recently for accomplishments that include mentoring, cheerleading, medical assisting, swimming, cosmetology, and overall academic achievement, according to district new releases.<\/p>\n

Ashlee Luzetsky, Kennett\u2019s cheerleading captain who rooted for the Blue Demons three years, will join Kutztown University\u2019s cheerleading squad. But before starting college, she will also cheer for \u201cThe Super Bowl of High School Football.\u201d Not only did Ashlee make the cut as one of Kutztown\u2019s 36 cheerleaders, she is on the top team. \u201cI will cheer at all football games, some basketball games, and go to national competition in Orlando,\u201d she said.\u00a0 She starts practicing with the Kutztown team on May 11.\u201cAshlee is outstanding in all areas of cheerleading, but her strengths are in stunting and tumbling,\u201d said Kathy Nelms, Kennett\u2019s head cheerleading coach.\u00a0In June, Ashlee will represent Kennett High School as she cheers for the Big 33 Football Classic game between Pennsylvania\u2019s and Maryland\u2019s premier football players. She competed against cheerleaders from across Pennsylvania for a spot on the team.<\/p>\n

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Kennett High School senior Jeff Hauptschein was recognized on the national level for academic and athletic excellence. He received the Congressional Scholar Athlete Award, which was presented to him by U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan during a ceremony on April 3.<\/p>\n

Hauptschein, who was nominated for the award by the high school\u2019s counselors, staff and administrators, maintained a cumulative 3.9 GPA while swimming the backstroke, butterfly, and 100- and 200-meter events for Kennett\u2019s swim team all four years.\u00a0 He qualified for district competitions and has also been the Wilmington Blue Rocks\u2019 batboy for three seasons.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Kennett Education Association (KEA) held it 22nd Annual Scholarship and Awards Reception to recognize outstanding students for their academic merit and school citizenship.\u00a0 KEA, the professional organization of teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, school nurses and school social workers of the district, awarded over $7,000 to students for their outstanding academic achievements and school citizenship qualities.<\/p>\n

Receiving certificates and $50 book cards at the elementary level were fifth graders Katherine Lihou and Martin Cintora Lopez (Bancroft Elementary School), Emily Taylor and Maxwell Silverstein (Greenwood Elementary School), and Mary Tuley and Ian Dargitz (New Garden Elementary School).<\/p>\n

Recognized for their performance at Kennett Middle School were eighth graders Lydia Pebly and Zachary Hrenko, who received certificates and $100 book gift cards.<\/p>\n

High-school awards of $200 each for excellence over four years in their disciplines were seniors Alberto Beltran (Business Education), Elsa Koninckx (English), Amanda Mastronardo (Family and Consumer Science), Katte Alba Rodriguez (Fine Arts), David Beech (Music), Connor Roth (Social Studies), Anne Uhle (Technical Arts), Nupur Parikh (World Languages), and Zachary Bolten who won awards in each of two areas (Mathematics and Science).<\/p>\n

Association President Michael Kelly presented the evening\u2019s most prestigious award\u2013 a $5,000 scholarship \u2013 to senior Amanda Reindl, who will be pursuing a teaching career in elementary education at West Chester University.\u00a0 Reindl has volunteered through the high school\u2019s ROC program in Lauren Carroll\u2019s elementary classroom.\u00a0 As her mentor, Carroll cited Reindl\u2019s readiness to teach, enthusiasm for her lessons, and caring for her students.<\/p>\n

Two Kennett High School students recently won separate state competitions for medical assisting.\u00a0 In June, they head to their respective national competitions.<\/p>\n

Senior Brianna Thompson placed first in Pennsylvania in the annual SkillsUSA competition for medical assisting.\u00a0 She heads to Kansas City for the SkillsUSA Championship. Thompson plans to pursue nursing in college. Senior Stephanie Savage won first place for medical assisting at the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) state competition. She will travel to Nashville for the national competition.\u00a0 Savage will begin her nursing studies at Lancaster General School of Nursing this fall.\u00a0Both girls<\/p>\n

learned medical assisting from AnneMarie McCauley, health occupations teacher, at the Technical College High School at Pennock\u2019s Bridge Road. They both were also members of Kennett\u2019s track and field team.<\/p>\n

A Kennett High School junior won first place in a district SkillsUSA cosmetology competition for turning a classmate into an ice princess.\u00a0 Later at state competition, where she transformed her model into the lion from the \u201cWizard of Oz,\u201d Seleste Salinas Lopez placed fourth.<\/p>\n

Salinas Lopez and classmates in her cosmetology program at Technical College High School brainstormed fantasy make-up ideas for the competitions. Classmate Ana Zurita, a sophomore, served as her model. Salinas Lopez aspires to become a movie make-up artist, and Zurita would like to use her skills as a cosmetologist to help put herself through college to become a speech therapist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awards ranged from cheerleading to cosmetology Kennett High students have received accolades recently for accomplishments that include mentoring, cheerleading, medical assisting, swimming, cosmetology, and overall academic achievement, according to district new releases. Ashlee Luzetsky, Kennett\u2019s cheerleading captain who rooted for the Blue Demons three years, will join Kutztown University\u2019s cheerleading squad. But before starting college, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[807,806,803,804,805],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-schools","tag-ashlee-luzetsky","tag-jeff-hauptschein","tag-kennett-education-association-kea","tag-kennett-high-school-blue-demons","tag-seleste-salinas-lopez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}