Salpointe Celebrates Our Award-Winning Students

The Carmelite Medal honors one male and one female student from the senior class who best exemplifies the true meaning of a Salpointe Catholic education. These honored students have consistently demonstrated the Carmelite charism of prayer, community and service.

Our female winner is Kailey Krogstad. 

Our male winner is Nathanial Higgins.

Each year Salpointe recognizes those graduating seniors who have maintained a 4.0 weighted GPA over the first seven semesters of high school. These 2026 honorees are part of the largest group of scholars in Salpointe’s history:

• Evangelina Alvarado
• Ava Ashley
• Elizabeth Barrett
• Amelia Bartfalvi
• Emery Callahan
• Sarah Camp
• Aleksandra Carrillo
• Krista Coppel
• Paul Deeb
• Alma Dojaquez Barreras
• Kallista Favre
• Laura Fellinger
• Marques Flores
• Presley Frank
• Reyes Gardner-Figueroa
• Carolina Gonzalez
• Carolina “Caro” Gonzalez
• Jordan Greer
• Eli Hanna
• Alexis Hanus
• Mireya Hernandez
• Caitlin Hurley
• Ezekiel Johnson-Anaya
• Andrew Kisso
• Colt Koontz
• Giuliana Lara
• Liliana Lara
• Sophia Ledyard
• Boden Lewis
• Maximiliano Lopez
• Axel Martinez
• Cam Martinez
• Joshua Meisner
• Nicole Monge
• Danica Moore
• Naya Moukabary
• Timothy Multhup
• Rita Munozcano
• Nicolette Padilla
• Michaela Post
• Chase Puntenney
• Camila Ramirez
• Ivanna Salas Almada
• Julianna Soto
• Paulina Sugich Aguilera
• Ashlyn Swanson
• Liana Tang
• Matilda Thompson
• Grady Urbanski
• Gisella Valencia
• Shay Vinayak
• Joseph Wagovich
• Thomas Walsh
• Jack Watson
• Brant Williamson
• Michelle Yap
• Rowdy Yates
• Claire Zeiller
• Monet Zuniga

Fall 2025

Students with semester GPA of 4.0 or above

2025 Fall Distinguished Honor Roll

Fall 2025

Students with semester GPA of 3.5 or above – all A’s, B’s and one C or fewer

2025 Fall Excellent Honor Roll

Fall 2025

Students with semester GPA of 3.0 or above – all A’s, B’s and C’s

2025 Fall Honor Roll

2026 Arizona Regional Choir

• SCHS Advanced Chorus earned an “Excellent” rating at the ACE Fall Choral Festival
• SCHS Advanced Chorus earned an “Excellent” rating at the NAU Jazz Madrigal Festival
• Lily Baker ’29, Rosalie Lunghard ’29, Rene Mazon ’27, and Claudia Niragira ’28 were selected to sing in the Statewide UA High School Honor Choir
• Isaac Ahumada Fuentes ’28 (3rd chair Tenor), Lily Baker ’29 (23rd chair Soprano) , Rosalie Lunghard ’29 (11th chair Soprano), and Rene Mazon ’27 (20th chair Bass) were selected to sing in the AMEA Regional Honor Choir

2026 Salpointe Regional Band

• Carlo Kendall
• Sophia Lee

2026 Salpointe Louis Armstrong Award Recipient

• Alon Deon ’26

2026 Salpointe Leonard Bernstein Award for Orchestra

• Carlo Kendall ’26

The Lancer Jazz Band received an Excellent at ABODA Regionals and qualified for All-State

2025 Salpointe Outstanding Performing Artist

• Ben Teller

2025-2026 Monty Awards – Southern Arizona Musical Theatre Awards

• Best Musical Direction

2026 Salpointe Outstanding Visual Artists

• Chase Puntenney
• Jillian Hartshorne
• Tariana Trosin
• Liliana Lara
• Lydia Colombi
• Isabel Favela
• Carly Keller
• Cristiano Morales

2026 Overall Fine Arts Award Recipient

• Chase Puntenney

District 6 Congressional Art Competition – Honorable Mention

• Chloe Wright
• Sally Hicks

2025 STEM Showcase Award

“ZBMM Attendance System” by Tyler Boldery ’25, Chloe Zhang ’25, Marisa Madrid ’25, and Lahire Molina ’25 won the showcase competition with their design of a attendance system that is less time-consuming allowing teachers to make their classroom time more effective.

The 2025 Global Seal of Biliteracy provides an internationally recognized certification in over 100 languages, allowing individuals to demonstrate their language proficiency across educational and professional settings worldwide. This distinguished credential is especially valuable for those pursuing higher education, international careers, or positions that offer language-based compensation.

Salpointe is honored to acknowledge the following students who have earned recognition from this prestigious global organization:

• Jadir Beltran
• Ernesto Bojorquez
• Valeria Campos
• Camila De Cima
• Daniella Fimbres Barcelo
• Ramon Garate
• Dalia Garcia
• Lisa Mada
• Renee Martinez
• NoeJoel Matus
• Gabriel Maytorena
• Lahire Molina
• Rubi Montaño
• Tamara Morales
• Santiago Perez
• Ricardo Platt
• Andres Ramos
• Julianna Roman
• Kali Schulte
• Arianna Silva Montaño
• Paulina Sugich Aguilera
• Marco Torres
• Laura Toruga
• Sofia Valdes
• Shailyn Valencia
• Daniela Verdugo

The Valencia Award honors the life of Carlos Valencia ’06 and is presented each year to to a member of the junior class who possesses great courage and strength, especially in difficult times. Much like Carlos, the recipient goes about life in a selfless manner, understands the true meaning of community and inspires us to think beyond ourselves.

Salpointe proudly presented the 2025-26 Valencia Award to Tony Jin ’26.

Salpointe proudly presented the 2025-26 Glinski Award to Elijah Valencia ’27.

2025 John Hughes Spirit Award

• Zachary Oschmann

2025 Junior Athletes of the Year

• Macee Johnson
• Axel Martinez

Senior Athletes of the Year

• Alison Even
• Emma Veliz
• Leonel Gutierrez-Lopez
• Nathanial Higgins

The Glinski Award commemorates the life of John Glinski ’68, who battled cancer as a student athlete and inspired his classmates with his strength and dedication. This award is presented each year to an exceptional junior football player who shows academic promise, has firm moral convictions and possesses a thirst for life.

The Gary Gillette most Inspirational Athletes of the year Memorial Awards

• Naomi Schoenhage
• Dominic DePinto