Lakeside School leads in scholar competition

Once again, Seattle's private Lakeside School led the area in the number of students named as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship's prestigious scholarship program.

Lakeside had 23 semifinalists, followed by Seattle's public Garfield High with 17 and Bellevue's public Newport High with 15.

Students qualfied for the honor by scoring in the top 1 percent of high-school juniors in each state who took the preliminary SAT.

Area semifinalists, by city, are:

Auburn

Auburn Adventist Academy: Jonathan Campbell

Auburn High School: Joseph Gehrett, Cory Schillaci, Tyler Scott

Auburn Riverside High School: Benjamin Huston

Bainbridge Island

Bainbridge High School: Sarah Gould, Nissa Kahle, Roarke Kamber, Anna McGrath, Jessica Pool, M. Joe Reynolds, Patrick Saunders, Jonathan Swanson

Commodore Options School: Matthew Sciacca

Bellevue

Bellevue High School: Adam Brown, Ryan Farber, Emily Fassler, Stephen Flavall, Max Hurwitz, Sergey Levine, Hillary Preston, Kathy Wei, Robert Whitehead

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart: Cassidy Russell, Elyse Whitney

Interlake High School: William Hancock, Nina Timberlake

Newport High School: Karianne Bergen, Tara Brito, Arielle Furtado, Hannah Hemmaplardh, Seth Hendrickson, Michelle Kwon, Andrew Laufmann, Advay Mengle, Eric Nguyen, Chelsea Stewart, Alexander Tran, Shannon Watanabe, Vincent Wu, David Yu, Cathy Zhang

Sammamish High School: R. Andrew Kreek

Bothell

Bothell High School: Brian Fouhy, Taylor Laflam, Andrea Norman

Burien

John F. Kennedy Memorial High School: Christine Carroll, Brian Lilleness

Clyde Hill

Bellevue Christian School: Madeline Cheng, Jason Ericson, Christopher Lumry, Ann Sleight

Des Moines

Mount Rainier High School: Lauren Hughs

Edmonds

Edmonds-Woodway High School: Emma Brewster, Karl Dray, Tom Giratikanon, Channing Jones, Sergey Karayev, Tony Kim, Jeanna Lee, Chen Xie, Neriah Yoo

Enumclaw

Enumclaw High School: Andrew Son

Everett

Cascade High School: Emma Breysse

Everett High School: Olivia Covert

Mariner High School: Jessalynn Uchacz

Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School: Mark Dechadenedes, Katherine Robinson, Peter Sadowski, Ben Snyder

Federal Way

Decatur High School: Alyssa Harding

Issaquah

Issaquah High School: Allison Carlisle, Nicole DeCamp, Andrew Hafenbrack, Linda Mummy

Kenmore

Inglemoor High School: Sarah Caley, Jesse Engreitz, David Linders, David Martin, Nina McMurry, Nicholas Schram, Daniel Sito, Arita Thatte, Joshua Tom, Rachel Wilkowski

Kent

Kentridge High School: John-Paul Parikh.

Tahoma High School: Andrea Ball, Juliet Rothenberg

Kirkland

International Community School: Ivan Lee, Alexander Wu

Juanita High School: James Pflager

Lake Washington High School: Rachel Ogimachi

Lake Stevens

Lake Stevens High School: Justine Sherry

Lynnwood

Meadowdale High School: Conner Peretti

Marysville

Marysville-Pilchuck High School: Jill Houghton

Mercer Island

Mercer Island High School: Ramona Barber, Edward Carden, Elizabeth Devleming, Michelle Lam, Evan Miller, Lizzy Rieke, Olivia Rosane, Kai Swenson, Katherine Vedder, Sarah Vogel, Noah Younger

Mill Creek

Henry M. Jackson High School: Bridgette Hannifin, Robert Manhas

Mountlake Terrace

Mountlake Terrace High School: David Blanchard

Mukilteo

Kamiak High School: James Chin, Steven Johnston

Redmond

Family Learning Center: Jason Padvorac

The Overlake School: Jeff Alger, James Chappell, Lisa Gaetjens, Benjamin Greenberg, Desmond Rawls, Elizabeth Trower

Redmond High School: Chaz Rosenberg, Sara Turner, Terry Wang

Renton

Oliver M. Hazen High School: Sandra Ray, Brian Smith, Yang Yang

Liberty High School: Michael Posch, Joseph Volk

Charles A. Lindbergh High School: Janette Siu

Sammamish

Skyline High School: Joseph Phillips

Seattle

Ballard High School: Gregory White

Bishop Blanchet High School: Anne Alpers, Brynn Lydum, Theresa Portzer

Garfield High School: George Allison, Rachel Anderson, Zachary Baron, Emily Boardman, Jacob Bornstein, Harry Cheadle, Lydia Depillis, Joycelyn Eby, Bernard Johnson, Linley Kirkwood, Hunter Landerholm, Sarah Lawson, Julia Marks, Edward Monrad, Hanh Nguyen, Nathan Pflueger, Jessica Tollenaar-Olive

Nathan Hale High School: Sean McCarthy

Holy Names Academy: Lauren Hanson, Megan Maass, Ellen McDonnell, Kathryn Sobotta

Lakeside School: Owen Bennion, Benjamin Bishop, Oliver Brady, Jennifer Chin, Emily Chu, Erin Coltrera, Susanne Everill, Alexander Fenner, Gina Fridley, Amir Ghazvinian, Gabriel Grant, Kyle Haddad-Fonda, Sanderson Hull, Claire Kelly, Marcel Knudsen, Patrick Leahy, Evan Purcell, Jane Ridgeway, Liza Shoenfeld, Alex Siegel, Siobhan Thomas-Smith, Logan Vincent, Leah Wener-Fligner

The Northwest School: Stephen Ebrey, Elana Feldman, Paul Fields, Rebecca Fish, Aaron Loux, Joseph Wanderer

O'Dea High School: Colin Heye, Elliot Kraber, Ryan Samsel

Roosevelt High School: Michael Kimmel, Prithvi Shankar

Sealth High School: Jesse Shaver

Seattle Academy: Kayla Hagen, Stefan Vraspir

Seattle Preparatory School: Jonathan Moe-Lobeda, Mark Pasquier, Erin Riley, Louis Russell

Transition School for Early Entrance Program: Jeremy Chan, Ruth Navarre, Mindy Szeto, Karman Tandon, Risa Wong

University Preparatory Academy: Elizabeth Snell

Shoreline

Shorecrest High School: Vivan Lin

Shorewood High School: Elizabeth Edwards, Morgan Shaw

Snohomish

Snohomish High School: Kaitlin Crowley

Vashon

Vashon Island High School: Helen Huizenga

Woodinville

Home School: Hannah Mead

Woodinville High School: Aaron Beppu, Genevieve Peaslee, Carl Romao