PORT ALLEGANY — Port Allegany Area High School recently announced its senior awards.
Academics: Mia Ambuski — Ardagh English Award of $200, the Rotary Science Award of $200, the USMC Scholastic Excellence Award; Patrick Conklin — Rotary Math Award of $200; Dylan Falk — Rotary Social Studies Award of $200; Olivia Freer — Biology Award; and Hannah Hartman — Ardagh French Award.
Awards for those participating in the Arts — Senior Drama Award — Mia Ambuski, Tara Briggs and Dominick Button; Band — John Philip Sousa Award — AJ Edgell, Louis Armstrong Jazz Award — Ben Lawton; Senior Band Award — Jesse Wright, Band Front Award — Ariana Barnard and Hannah Troupe; Chorus — National School Choir Award — Tara Briggs, Fred Waring/Directors Award for Chorus; Senior Chorus Award — Olivia Freer, Kolby Hosterman, USMC Semper Fidelis for Musical Excellence — Mia Ambuski; Art Award — Olivia Postlewait, Imagin Keyser and Hannah Troupe.
Athletes of the year are Cailey Barnett, recipient of the David Lacher Memorial/Female Athlete of the Year and Howie Stuckey, recipient of the Thomas Taylor Memorial/Male Athlete of the Year. Cailey Barnett and Eli Petruzzi received the USMC Distinguished Athlete Awards; Joshua Conklin and Maleah Daniels received the Bob Davies/Lou Foy Student-Athlete Awards; Eli Petruzzi and Howie Stuckey each received Varsity Club Scholarships of $1,000.
Memorial Awards went to Mia Ambuski — Jean Marie Swanson of $8,000, Daisley Math Award of $200, Lloyd E. Eastman Memorial Award of $500; Jordan Card — John Thrash Memorial Award; Kayla Copp — Leo Coleman Award and VMI Roxie Taylor Volunteer Scholarship of $1,000; Olivia Freer — VMI Paul Maynard Scholarship of Courage — $1,000; Kolby Hosterman — Jean Marie Swanson Award of $8,000, Patricia Lloyd Award of $200, Lloyd E. Eastman Memorial Award of $500, The Pastor Randy Headley Memorial Award for Community Service of $500; Ben Lawton — Robert J. Edgreen Award of $1,000 a year for four years; Kalyn Naylor — VMI Roie Taylor Volunteer Scholarship of $1,000, Eli Petruzzi — The Gerald Stayer Memorial Football Award, the Patricia Lloyd Memorial Award and the Pastor Randy Headley Memorial Award for Community Service; Olivia Postlewait — Robert F. Edgreen Award of $1,000 for one year; Brandon Tinder — Raymond Charles Varney Scholarship of $3,000; and Jesse Wright — the Loren B. Wright Memorial Scholarship.
Olivia Freer was awarded the Hagan Award and Taylor Emerson received the PAEA Higher Education Award of $300.
Varsity Club Member Awards went to Cailey Barnett, 11; Jordan Card, 8; MaLeah Daniels — 10; AJ Edgell — 11; Emma Fox — 8; Shawn McNeil — 9; DJ Michelitsch — 9; Kalyn Naylor — 8; Eli Petruzzi — 11; Josh Rees — 10; Angela Smith — 8; Howie Stuckey — 15; and Montgomery Tanner — 10.
Certificates of Superior Achievement for attaining high honor roll status for each grading period of the school year went to Mia Ambuski, Patrick Conklin and Kolby Hosterman; Superior Academic Achievement Award for attaining High Honor Roll status every marking period for six years to school went to Mia Ambuski; Certificate of Excellence for attaining honor roll status for each grading period of the school year — Kayla Baxter, Dominick Button, MaLeah Daniels, Haley Darush, Taylor Emerson, Olivia Freer, Kolby Hosterman, Robert Landry, Joshua Messler, Kalyn Naylor, Anakin Nolan, Elijah Petruzzi, Ashley Skinner, Angela Smith and Ben Lawton; Certificate of Distinguished Excellence for attaining honor roll status every marking period for six years of school — Dominick Button, Joshua Conklin, Taylor Emerson, Benjamin Lawton, Kalyn Naylor, Angela Smith and Patrick Conklin.
