2016 Regional Finalists
These 250 students have advanced to our final stage of selection, regional interviews. We look forward to sharing the names of our 150 Coca-Cola Scholars in late February!
| ARIZONA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper | Barghols | Pusch Ridge Christian Academy High School | Tucson | AZ |
| Amanda | Flores | Westview High School | Avondale | AZ |
| Michelle | Howard | Sabino High School | Tucson | AZ |
| Rohini | Nott | BASIS Chandler High School | Chandler | AZ |
| Jessica | Peebles | Desert Vista High School | Phoenix | AZ |
| Jonathan | Wedwick | Ironwood High School | Glendale | AZ |
| ARKANSAS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angela | Wang | Central High School | Little Rock | AR |
| David | Xiang | Central High School | Little Rock | AR |
| CALIFORNIA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anastasios | Angelopoulos | Polytechnic School | Pasadena | CA |
| Jorge | Avelar-Lopez | Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy | Oakland | CA |
| Snigdha | Banda | Notre Dame High School | San Jose | CA |
| Dahkota | Brown | Argonaut High School | Jackson | CA |
| Diana | Chao | Claremont High School | Claremont | CA |
| Ruoxi | Chen | Sage Hill High School | Newport Coast | CA |
| Shannon | Chen | Palos Verdes Peninsula High School | Rolling Hls Ests | CA |
| Sarah | Douglas | San Marcos High School | Santa Barbara | CA |
| Ruwanthi | Ekanayake | Palos Verdes Peninsula High School | Rolling Hls Ests | CA |
| Jesus | Franco | South Gate Senior High School | South Gate | CA |
| Durga | Ganesh | Lynbrook High School | San Jose | CA |
| George | Hou | Arcadia High School | Arcadia | CA |
| Joy | Hsu | Oxford Academy High School | Cypress | CA |
| Anjini | Karthik | St. Francis High School | Mountain View | CA |
| Isha | Kumar | Quartz Hill High School | Quartz Hill | CA |
| Kalvin | Lam | Evergreen Valley High School | San Jose | CA |
| Varun | Mandi | Troy High School | Fullerton | CA |
| Luz | Memije | Lakeside High School | Lake Elsinore | CA |
| Pierce | O'Donnell | Laguna Blanca High School | Santa Barbara | CA |
| Nanette | Park | Centennial High School | Corona | CA |
| Anastasia | Pyrinis | Newbury Park High School | Newbury Park | CA |
| Swetha | Revanur | Evergreen Valley High School | San Jose | CA |
| Alexander | Rounaghi | Laguna Beach High School | Laguna Beach | CA |
| Maya | Varma | Presentation High School | San Jose | CA |
| Jade | Wong | Glen A Wilson High School | Hacienda Heights | CA |
| COLORADO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohika | Nagpal | Niwot High School | Niwot | CO |
| George | Pandya | STEM High School | Highlands Ranch | CO |
| Eric | Paricio | Smoky Hill High School | Aurora | CO |
| Arely | Parra Lopez | Windsor High School | Windsor | CO |
| Harriet | Pryor | Aspen High School | Aspen | CO |
| CONNECTICUT | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley | Gong | Newtown High School | Sandy Hook | CT |
| Sean | Hackett | Guilford High School | Guilford | CT |
| Shangda | Xu | Cheshire High School | Chelsea | CT |
| DELAWARE | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin | Fickes | Charter School of Wilmington | Wilmington | DE |
| DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian | Contreras | School Without Walls High School | Washington | DC |
| Saloni | Rao | Woodrow Wilson Sr High School | Washington | DC |
| FLORIDA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shrey | Agarwal | Strawberry Crest High School | Dover | FL |
| Stephanie | Blas-Lizarazo | G Holmes Braddock High School | Miami | FL |
| Madeline | Bookout | Gulf Breeze High School | Gulf Breeze | FL |
| Manzhen | Chen | Intl Baccalaureate Bartow HS | Bartow | FL |
| Cali | Chussid | David Posnack Jewish Day High School | Davie | FL |
| Maria | Estrada | Coral Gables Sr High School | Coral Gables | FL |
| Talia | Fradkin | Palm Beach Virtual School | Riviera Beach | FL |
| Megan | Galbreath | Cape Coral High School | Cape Coral | FL |
| Nicole | Odzer | Pine Crest High School | Ft Lauderdale | FL |
| Jillian | Ortner | University High School | Orlando | FL |
| Dalton | Price | Spruce Creek High School | Port Orange | FL |
| Kriyana | Reddy | Intl Baccalaureate Bartow HS | Bartow | FL |
| Madison | Thompson | Gulf Breeze High School | Gulf Breeze | FL |
| Grace | Wickerson | Pine View School | Osprey | FL |
| Leah | Winstanley | Champion Preparatory Academy High School | Apopka | FL |
| GEORGIA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliza | Antonowich | Norcross High School | Norcross | GA |
| Stephen | Blackburn | Eagles Landing Christian Acad | Mcdonough | GA |
| Catherine | Chang | Johns Creek High School | Johns Creek | GA |
| Amira | Daugherty | Dekalb Early College Academy High School | Stone Mountain | GA |
| Yun Ke | Du | Johns Creek High School | Johns Creek | GA |
| Brandon | Hardy | Columbia High School | Decatur | GA |
| Agni | Kumar | Milton High School | Alpharetta | GA |
| Raahina | Malik | Fayette County High School | Fayetteville | GA |
| Grant | Mercer | Harrison High School | Kennesaw | GA |
| HAWAII | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexa | Anderson | Kalaheo High School | Kailua | HI |
| Michael | Chen | Punahou High School | Honolulu | HI |
| Paulina | Reyes | Leilehua High School | Wahiawa | HI |
| Lina | Zou | Kalani High School | Honolulu | HI |
| IDAHO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winston | Lie | Capital High School | Boise | ID |
| Kristin | Nesbitt | Meridian High School | Meridian | ID |
| ILLINOIS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luccas | Borges | Lincoln Park High School | Chicago | IL |
| Eamon | Bracht | Lyons Township High School | La Grange | IL |
| Kathryn | Dierksheide | York Community High School | Elmhurst | IL |
| Tushar | Dwivedi | Neuqua Valley High School | Naperville | IL |
| JoeShawn | Head | Lindblom Math and Science Academy | Chicago | IL |
| Jerry | Limon | Phoenix Military Academy | Chicago | IL |
| Haripriya | Mehta | Maine West High School | Des Plaines | IL |
| Sally | Nijim | Willowbrook High School | Villa Park | IL |
| Sabrina | Vera | William H Taft High School | Chicago | IL |
| INDIANA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayesha | Awal | Lawrence North High School | Indianapolis | IN |
| Sneha | Dave | Center Grove High School | Greenwood | IN |
| Scott | Forsythe | Eagle Academy High School | Huntington | IN |
| Abigail | Hancock | Harrison High School | West Lafayette | IN |
| Vikas | Maturi | Carmel High School | Carmel | IN |
| Shelby | Miles | Franklin Community High School | Franklin | IN |
| Christina | Randall | Center Grove High School | Greenwood | IN |
| Laine | Rumreich | Lawrence North High School | Indianapolis | IN |
| Shi | Tuck | Ben Davis High School | Indianapolis | IN |
| IOWA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornelia | Hayes | East Marshall High School | Le Grand | IA |
| Mary | Li | West High School | Iowa City | IA |
| Emily | Montelius | Thomas Jefferson High School | Cedar Rapids | IA |
| Sruthi | Palaniappan | Linn-Mar High School | Marion | IA |
| Hailey | Schmitz | Nashua Plainfield High School | Nashua | IA |
| KANSAS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick | Botros | Homeschool High School | Wichita | KS |
| Carley | Eschliman | Olathe South High School | Olathe | KS |
| David | Lie-Tjauw | Olathe North High School | Olathe | KS |
| Gracie | Schram | Blue Valley North High School | Overland Park | KS |
| KENTUCKY | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megison | Hancock | Paducah Tilghman High School | Paducah | KY |
| Xinlan | Hu | duPont Manual High School | Louisville | KY |
| Catherine | Martini | Villa Madonna Academy High School | Covington | KY |
| Caleigh | Propes | Lone Oak High School | Paducah | KY |
| Amanda | Tu | duPont Manual High School | Louisville | KY |
| Kendall | Yount | Frankfort Christian Academy | Frankfort | KY |
| LOUISIANA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverly | Brown | St. Scholastica Academy High School | Covington | LA |
| Stoney | Mclarty | Calvin High School | Calvin | LA |
| MARYLAND | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angela | Chin | Charles Herbert Flowers High School | Springdale | MD |
| Pranav | Ganapathy | Centennial High School | Ellicott City | MD |
| Eric | Zhao | Meade Senior High School | Ft Meade | MD |
| MASSACHUSETTS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan | Chiu | Wellesley High School | Wellesley | MA |
| Katie | Curran | Sturgis Charter Public High School | Hyannis | MA |
| Dominik | Danko | South High Community High School | Worcester | MA |
| Hina | Patel | Waltham Senior High School | Waltham | MA |
| Timothy | Sullivan | Burlington High School | Burlington | MA |
| MICHIGAN | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francine | Barchett | Grace Christian High School | Watervliet | MI |
| Christopher | Chen | Troy High School | Troy | MI |
| Jonathan | Haynes | Midland High School | Midland | MI |
| Alden | Kane | Univ of Detroit Jesuit High School | Detroit | MI |
| Shreya | Menon | Skyline High School | Ann Arbor | MI |
| Alan | Sun | Detroit Country Day School | Beverly Hills | MI |
| Rosanna (Rose) | Wong | Detroit Country Day School | Beverly Hills | MI |
| MINNESOTA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rewan | Abdelwahab | Southwest High School | Minneapolis | MN |
| Neehar | Banerjee | Mayo High School | Rochester | MN |
| MISSOURI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denton | Diggins | Bronaugh R-Vii High School | Bronaugh | MO |
| John | Curley | Missouri Military Academy High School | Mexico | MO |
| Meghana | Bharadwaj | Lafayette High School | Wildwood | MO |
| Noa | Rose | Whitfield Private High School | St. Louis | MO |
| Nicole | Shah | Greenwood Laboratory High School | Springfield | MO |
| NEBRASKA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michaela | Marcy | Loomis High School | Loomis | NE |
| Elizabeth | Yost | Lincoln High School | Lincoln | NE |
| NEVADA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | Rathbun | Advanced Technologies Academy High School | Las Vegas | NV |
| NEW JERSEY | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann-Marie | Lee | West Essex Senior High School | North Caldwell | NJ |
| Hannah | Lee | Holmdel High School | Holmdel | NJ |
| Mark | Pino | Mainland Regional High School | Linwood | NJ |
| Kevin | Stephen | St. Josephs High School | Metuchen | NJ |
| NEW MEXICO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priyanka | Jain | La Cueva High School | Albuquerque | NM |
| NEW YORK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine | Hua | Brooklyn Technical High School | Brooklyn | NY |
| Sonak | Kolar | North Rockland High School | Thiells | NY |
| Sean | Konz | Rondout Valley High School | Accord | NY |
| David | Li | Commack High School | Commack | NY |
| Xerxes | Libsch | Regis High School | New York | NY |
| Veronica | Liu | Niskayuna High School | Niskayuna | NY |
| Rose | Reiken | White Plains High School | White Plains | NY |
| Kameron | Sedigh | Kings Park High School | Kings Park | NY |
| Maxwell | Silverstein | Paul D Schreiber High School | Port Washington | NY |
| Sunpreet | Singh | Hillcrest High School | Jamaica | NY |
| Zainab | Tahir | Hillcrest High School | Jamaica | NY |
| Julian | Ubriaco | Kings Park High School | Kings Park | NY |
| Augusta | Uwamanzu-Nna | Elmont Memorial Jr-Sr High School | Elmont | NY |
| Elizabeth | Varghese | Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK HS | Plainview | NY |
| NORTH CAROLINA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hannah | Chen | Walter M Williams High School | Burlington | NC |
| Holly | Holder | North Lenoir High School | La Grange | NC |
| Chandra | Manivannan | Panther Creek High School | Cary | NC |
| Jalen | McGee | Hillside High School | Durham | NC |
| Megan | Miller | Western High School | Elon | NC |
| Alycia | Parker | Roxboro Community High School | Roxboro | NC |
| Tejal | Patwardhan | North Carolina Sch Sci & Math High School | Durham | NC |
| Shivraj | Sandhu | Fike High School | Wilson | NC |
| Rebecca | Sullenger | Carrboro High School | Carrboro | NC |
| Zachary | Walker | Leesville Road High School | Raleigh | NC |
| NORTH DAKOTA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian | Saum | Central Cass High School | Casselton | ND |
| OHIO | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | Ball | Granville High School | Granville | OH |
| Sahithee | Batchu | Dublin Coffman High School | Dublin | OH |
| Caleb | Cole | Pickerington High School Central | Pickerington | OH |
| Grace | Ehemann | St. Ursula Academy High School | Cincinnatti | OH |
| Riley | Evans | Miami Trace High School | Washington Ch | OH |
| Allison | Kao | Shaker Heights High School | Shaker Heights | OH |
| Vishnu | Nistala | Mentor High School | Mentor | OH |
| Morlan | Osgood | Loveland High School | Loveland | OH |
| Kavya | Ravichandran | Hathaway Brown High School | Shaker Heights | OH |
| Sarah | Senkfor | Hawken High School | Gates Mills | OH |
| OKLAHOMA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | Coronado | Southeast High School | Oklahoma City | OK |
| Moin | Nadeem | Jenks High School | Jenks | OK |
| Raghavendra | Pai | Edmond Memorial High School | Edmond | OK |
| OREGON | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhavin | Gupta | Westview High School | Portland | OR |
| Meghana | Mysore | Lake Oswego High School | Lake Oswego | OR |
| Nadya | Okamoto | The Catlin Gabel High School | Portland | OR |
| Makenna | Pennel | Triangle Lake High School | Blachly | OR |
| Alexander | Zhang | Lincoln High School | Portland | OR |
| PENNSYLVANIA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calvin | Chan | Upper Dublin High School | Ft Washington | PA |
| Grace | Jin | North Allegheny Sr High School | Wexford | PA |
| Mahima | Kumara | State College Area High School | State College | PA |
| Sophia | Lee | North Allegheny Sr High School | Wexford | PA |
| Amy | Li | Upper Dublin High School | Ft Washington | PA |
| Samuel | Lindsay | Peters Township High School | McMurray | PA |
| Ashwin | Reddy | North Allegheny Sr High School | Wexford | PA |
| Guanlin | Ren | North Allegheny Sr High School | Wexford | PA |
| Siona | Sharma | Seneca Valley Sr High School | Harmony | PA |
| Harrison | Smith | Taylor Allderdice High School | Pittsburgh | PA |
| Sreeroopa | Som | Fox Chapel Area High School | Pittsburgh | PA |
| Kathryn | Wang | Central Bucks High School South | Warrington | PA |
| Michael | Zhang | Conestoga High School | Berwyn | PA |
| RHODE ISLAND | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cassandra | Lin | Williams School The | New London | CT |
| Grace | Miner | East Greenwich High School | East Greenwich | RI |
| SOUTH CAROLINA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krishna | Gorrepati | Spring Valley High School | Columbia | SC |
| SOUTH DAKOTA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manaal | Ali | Harrisburg High School | Harrisburg | SD |
| Austin | Lentsch | T F Riggs High School | Pierre | SD |
| Allyson | Monson | Clark High School | Clark | SD |
| TENNESSEE | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly | Champagne | Gatlinburg-Pittman High School | Gatlinburg | TN |
| Sterling | Fisher | Gatlinburg-Pittman High School | Gatlinburg | TN |
| Andrew | Harwell | Richland High School | Lynnville | TN |
| Ayushi | Sinha | Girls Preparatory School | Chattanooga | TN |
| TEXAS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esther | Brown | Bellaire Senior High School | Bellaire | TX |
| Saheel | Chodavadia | Mcneil High School | Austin | TX |
| Christian | Cole | Shelton High School | Dallas | TX |
| Kimberly | Collins | Douglas Macarthur High School | San Antonio | TX |
| Juan | Cruces | Ingram Tom Moore High School | Ingram | TX |
| Sarita | Damaraju | W B Ray High School | Corpus Christi | TX |
| Azim | Dharani | Hebron High School | Carrollton | TX |
| Javier | Escobar | Cathedral High School | El Paso | TX |
| Kimberly | Herrera | Irma Rangel YWL High School | Dallas | TX |
| Grace | Knight | Bishop Thomas K Gorman H S | Tyler | TX |
| Catherine | Latour | All Saints Episcopal High School | Lubbock | TX |
| Hannah | Le | Cypress Creek High School | Houston | TX |
| Paul | Lie | Lubbock High School | Lubbock | TX |
| Jinjie | Ling | Bellaire Senior High School | Bellaire | TX |
| Conrad | Liu | Glenda Dawson High School | Pearland | TX |
| Farhan | Mohiuddin | Harmony High School | Sugar Hill | TX |
| Victoria | Songyang | Carnegie Vanguard High School | Houston | TX |
| Raymar | Turangan | The Colony High School | Colony | TX |
| Nikit | Venishetty | Plano East Senior High School | Plano | TX |
| Tiffany | Wang | John H. Guyer High School | Denton | TX |
| Karen | Yang | John Foster Dulles High Sch | Sugar Land | TX |
| UTAH | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony | Cheng | Hillcrest High School | Midvale | UT |
| Sierra | Hart | Mountain Heights Academy High School | West Jordan | UT |
| Heather | Mills | Woods Cross High School | Woods Cross | UT |
| Musa | Taha | Cottonwood High School | Murray | UT |
| Michael | Xiao | Lone Peak High School | Highland | UT |
| VERMONT | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noa | Saunders | South Burlington High School | South Burlington | VT |
| VIRGINIA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence | Early | Clover Hill High School | Midlothian | VA |
| Zoe | Jones | Hampton Christian Academy High School | Hampton | VA |
| Quintin | Lassiter | Warwick High School | Newport News | VA |
| Wyatt | Pontius | Potomac Falls High School | Potomac Falls | VA |
| Reshini | Premaratne | Governors Sch Govt Intl Stds | Richmond | VA |
| Matthew | Sun | Thomas Jefferson HS Sci & Tech | Alexandria | VA |
| WASHINGTON | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie | Chen | Interlake High School | Bellevue | WA |
| Arjun | Kumar | Skyline High School | Sammamish | WA |
| Mason | Meyer | Glacier Peak High School | Snohomish | WA |
| Swetha | Shutthanandan | Richland High School | Richland | WA |
| Emily | Tan | Hanford High School | Richland | WA |
| Julia | Todderud | Asotin High School | Asotin | WA |
| Mayukha | Vadari | Redmond High School | Redmond | WA |
| WEST VIRGINIA | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline | Leadmon | Hurricane High School | Hurricane | WV |
| WISCONSIN | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William | Jang | Eau Claire Mem High School | Eau Claire | WI |
| Jason | Lin | Eau Claire Mem High School | Eau Claire | WI |
| Ananya | Murali | Shorewood High School | Shorewood | WI |
| WYOMING | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zariah | Tolman | Burlington High School | Burlington | WY |
Scholars List
Our 2024 Coke Scholars
These 150 high school seniors will each receive a $20,000 college scholarship and join a family of 6,900+ alumni who are leading positive change in their communities and around the world.
Our 2024 Regional Finalists
These 250 students have advanced to the next stage of selection in the Coca-Cola Scholars Program!
Our 2024 Semifinalists
1,514 high school seniors have been selected from 103,800+ submitted applications from across the country to advance to the next stage of our selection process!