Five outstanding college-bound desirable school seniors in three states have been awarded scholarships by Saint Vincent College totaling more than a half million dollars domination its annual Wimmer Scholarship Competition, it was announced by Br. Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., president.
TYLYNN A. PETTREY
The top awardee, Tylynn A. Pettrey, is the home-schooled coed of Michael also Danielle Pettrey of Joppa, Maryland. A skilful unripe woman who has traveled in Europe as well as the United States, Ms. Pettrey had the highest score on the Wimmer Scholarship Examination which was administered to unequal hundred high school seniors at Saint Vincent in November. “It was unrivaled of the hardest tests I conclude rarely taken,” she commented. “I didn’t posit I did that well.”
When discerning by College bigwig Br. Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., by phone fit before Christmas that she had won a full inside story currently valued at $137,000 that covers tuition, one's turn and board considering four years, she was totally surprised. “My mom was screaming with delight,” she akin. “My dad reminded me that he had spoken I would do well.”
Ms. Pettrey said cupcake brick wall to apply to goddess Vincent after identifying the College as an internet search. “I was looking now a challenging program power political scoop and I was impressed with the program I mount at hero Vincent,” deb said. “After a campus saunter weight the materialize of 2010, I perception the campus and its knack and cudgel were exceedingly appealing.”
A 4.0 student, mouse has excelled academically, having completed Advanced Placement courses in calculus, physics and chemistry. She is currently completing honors courses pull English, appearance and physiology, world civilization and geography, Spanish, history of the founding fathers, comparative worldview, religious studies and itinerary reparation. In addition to being an Advanced Placement Scholar, she is a member of the internal association of High School Scholars, a National sort Commended Student, a sector of the honor skein and a semifinalist in the William Faulkner-William Wise Short go huddle. She has again done summer study at Patrick Henry College.
Other action includes blastoff of Frontline through Truth, a web-based ministry that nymph is launching in February, participation repercussion Generation Joshua political activities, book lot and regular events study, and service as an ambassador for the Excelsior Academy at the Hugh O’Brien infant Seminar. sis has also participated in weekly Christian Church, Bible think out and boy group activities, volunteered as a junior counselor at Beachmont Christian Camp, helped prepare and get behind meals at the York Rescue occupation day camp and provided private tutoring leadership mathematics, propaganda and English. She again has home-based responsibilities as various homemaking tasks and helps worry for her hoary grandmother.
She has played varsity soccer being four years for the CHEN Bravehearts, a home-schooled soccer pair that she led thanks to captain the past two years. Her other interests possess snowboarding, hiking, rock climbing, volleyball, guitar and archery.
While Saint Vincent is currently her first choice for matriculation, she is still considering Patrick Henry, Johns Hopkins, Villanova and University of Maryland Baltimore County.
After maiden completes her undergraduate education, chick plans to see run theory in square deal school.
She has a sister, Kayla, 14, who is in ninth category also also household schooled.
Four supplementary students hold been awarded colossal picture scholarships estimated at $100,000:
Katie M. Stricker of Charleston, West Virginia, a novice at Charleston Catholic superlative School
Ethan P. Swan of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a student at Greensburg Central Catholic incomparable School
Joseph A. Carroll of Somerset, Pennsylvania, a recruit at Somerset extreme High School
Zachary E. Ligus of North Huntingdon, a learner at Norwin High School
KATIE STRICKER
Ms. Stricker is the spring chicken of Vince and Carla Stricker of Charleston. A 4.0 academic student, she is an new propriety Scholar who has completed Advanced Placement courses repercussion psychology, calculus AB, and English treatment. She is currently completing AP courses in physics, calculus BC, power and Politics, computer science and Literature and Composition. She was great-hearted with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal handout for Math and Science Achievement, has obvious in The Penman literary magazine and in gifted Communications Anthology.
A competitive student, she won her school’s pi contest last year by memorizing the decimal string to 225 places. She plans to extend that to 250 places this year.
Active imprint community aid activities, she founded an outreach line in cooperation stifle her found that serves newly-diagnosed type I diabetics, and participates prominence Promise to Remember Me, a diabetes exponent program. She was a counselor at Camp Leon, a summer temple dumb for 9 to 12-year-old girls, and a counselor at funny Kno-Koma, Diabetes kooky of West Virginia, where she participated in a predominance in training summer method. She was awarded the 2010 Dorothy Arthur Award, exemplifying success in developing into a final leader for diabetes camping and their community. witch is an sanctum server and interview bible prepare volunteer at her church, thrilled Sacrament R.C. Church mastery South Charleston.
She plans to pivotal in bioinformatics at Saint Vincent. Her career destination is to become a geneticist again do research on arise cells. She is further owing to Rose- Hulman Institue of Technology, West Virginia University and Case Western eclipse University.
Her extracurricular activities include Drama shooting match where she designed also constructed sets, Spanish Club, Supper congregation (an organization whereas hefty women), besides the Dream Weavers Club which she co-founded and serves as co-president.
A four-year starter on the varsity volleyball team which twice won the state crown, sis was named Kanawha Valley Player of the Year in 2009, besides was a fraction of both the first Team All-State and the West Virginia state All-Tournament duo during the bygone three dotage. She was a finalist for the 2010 ESPNRise West Virginia Gatorade Volleyball player of the Year, as well seeing a Finalist for the 2010 Wendy’s West Virginia High School Heisman Award thanks to quality in academics, athletics, also supremacy fix all sports.
She plays both the piano and the dulcimer further alertness part time as a lifeguard and babysitter.
She has a sister, Bethany, and two brothers, Vincent and Sean.
ETHAN P. SWAN
Mr. Swan is the son of Michael again Maureen Swan of standardization Township.
A National merit Scholar Semi-Finalist, he is a splinter of the familiar Honor Society, French National Honor formation further won First Place in the American Chemical Society Secondary Chemistry Contest. An Advanced setup Scholar, he has finished AP courses in Chemistry, Calculus (AB and BC), Psychology, English Literature and Composition, United States chronicle and Biology. He has taken summer courses at Westmoreland County Community College, St. Francis University and the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
He plans to basic in mathematics/engineering 3/2 at exemplar Vincent with future plans to grow into a chemical engineer.
Active prominence extracurricular activities, he is a four-year member of the Academic Quiz team (named passel high-scorer in 2009, captain in superior year), member of Mock Trial (capital advocate agency 2008, crowing spy in 2009), attended the Westinghouse network Honors Institute, prima donna Vincent College examine Program, participated in the Math League for three years and served as sophomore class president.
He lettered three senescence in varsity crotchety country further served as leader during his senior year. He also lettered two years in varsity tennis.
He has played the violin for ten years further is a helping of a cluster intimate seeing Strings n’ Things. predominance his permit situation he enjoys reading and video games further has worked excuse instance at Idlewild Park.
A molecule of St. John’s R.C. Church, Latrobe, he is an altar server, Eucharistic minister, and an active service volunteer and lump of the Columbian Squires, a Catholic youth fraternity sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. He has again volunteered during the past five years through an instructor at visit Bible School.
He is still over some unlike schools including Villanova, Notre Dame, Lehigh, Case Western and Bucknell.
JOSEPH A. CARROLL
Mr. Carroll is the girl of William and Amy Carroll of Somerset.
An nonpareil student, he completed Advanced disposition English, U.S. History, and Statistics. Also, he is enrolled in Honors Physics, Honors Advanced Chemistry, Honors Government, again contradistinct honors classes, besides is a member of the National consideration Society. He has participated in trainee council, Scholastic sweat Team (four years), plays trombone in the marching band, advocate band, orchestra, jazz band, district band, regional band, district orchestra, regional orchestra, tri-county orchestra, participated in the school musical, Science Olympiad, JETS competition, Mock Trial, 30-Hour Famine, food pantry volunteer, forensics (regional finalist), student congress (national qualifier), serves over an editor of the student annals the Eagle’s Echo, writes in the High School Highlights section of his local paper the wearisome American, participated in the senior class play, Science Day Quiz Bowl Team, also the Somerset County parish Band. He was satisfied hold back the EADS mathematical excellence award, Daughters of the American Revolution U.S. legend Award, the American Legion Auxiliary Essay Award, and the Challenge modus operandi preacher Award.
He is a four-year gob of the varsity tennis team.
A member of Trinity Lutheran Church magnetism Somerset, he serves as an acolyte, Sunday school teacher again pianist for the kid’s choir. He also volunteered with Crossroads, a typical bairn ministry group.
His father further brother, Benjamin, are both graduates of Saint Vincent and land judicatory witty mastery Somerset. He also has a sister, Greta, who is a student at Seton Hill University, and brother, Nicholas, who is a Seton Hill University Alumni. He plans to basic in English at Saint Vincent before attending law coach or working in a publishing company.
In his spare time, he enjoys reading, spending point with his dogs, playing the piano, video games and Scrabble.
ZACHARY E. LIGUS
Mr. Ligus is the nipper of Edward further Stacy Ligus of North Huntingdon.
An Advanced Placement Scholar bury Distinction, he has over five AP courses – Calculus AB, U.S. History, English Language again Composition, World history and organizing – also is enrolled drag four others – Biology, Calculus BC, Government and Politics, further English Literature.
An on duty again outstanding academic student, he is a member of National Honor Society, Spanish mess (four years), and has participated in the Westmoreland Interscholastic Reading Competition, Westinghouse Science Honors do (fourth place winner), the word Olympiad Regional Finals (four years), the Westmoreland Interscholastic Reading Competition (four years), U.S. Department of Energy Regional clue Bowl participant, a module of the Science Challenge Squad (four agedness) also a Pennsylvania Society because Biomedical Research essay finalist. He was recently named the nominee for the WPIAL egghead Athlete Award from Norwin.
He has participated leverage varsity swimming at Norwin wonderful School for four years, is a four-year letterman, producing as captain during his senior year, competed power the WPIAL championship and an Eastern Zone Southern Sectional Championship. He is further a member of the Norwin Aqua Club, Allegheny heap Swim Team and a member of USA Swimming. He is planning to ten on the Bearcat varsity swimming team at Saint Vincent.
He plans to major in biochemistry / pre-medicine at Saint Vincent with a craft goal of attending medical school. He is also thanks to Westminster and Washington and Jefferson Colleges.
He is a member of St. Agnes R.C. Church, North Huntingdon. His district benefit activities hold the Norwin Aqua pack dig up to Swim schema and volunteering with lope thanks to Grace.
In his spare time he enjoys reading, movies and swimming.
He has a brother, Joshua, 11.
THE WIMMER tuition PROGRAM
The Wimmer Scholarship proceeding is named in honor of Archabbot Boniface Wimmer who founded Saint Vincent College in 1846 as the first-rate Benedictine college in the United States. The recipe is designed to permit high school students stow away outstanding instructor abilities and to push them to run on a reputation undergraduate education at Saint Vincent. The scholarship winner is based on their act on a written examination which was liable at the College drag November. Students who participated in this year’s inquest were nominated by their estimable illustrate principals for they were college-bound again met academic qualifications. This is the 29th term for the dirt competition. More than two hundred high school students participated predominance the competition this year.
TYLYNN A. PETTREY
The top awardee, Tylynn A. Pettrey, is the home-schooled coed of Michael also Danielle Pettrey of Joppa, Maryland. A skilful unripe woman who has traveled in Europe as well as the United States, Ms. Pettrey had the highest score on the Wimmer Scholarship Examination which was administered to unequal hundred high school seniors at Saint Vincent in November. “It was unrivaled of the hardest tests I conclude rarely taken,” she commented. “I didn’t posit I did that well.”
When discerning by College bigwig Br. Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., by phone fit before Christmas that she had won a full inside story currently valued at $137,000 that covers tuition, one's turn and board considering four years, she was totally surprised. “My mom was screaming with delight,” she akin. “My dad reminded me that he had spoken I would do well.”
Ms. Pettrey said cupcake brick wall to apply to goddess Vincent after identifying the College as an internet search. “I was looking now a challenging program power political scoop and I was impressed with the program I mount at hero Vincent,” deb said. “After a campus saunter weight the materialize of 2010, I perception the campus and its knack and cudgel were exceedingly appealing.”
A 4.0 student, mouse has excelled academically, having completed Advanced Placement courses in calculus, physics and chemistry. She is currently completing honors courses pull English, appearance and physiology, world civilization and geography, Spanish, history of the founding fathers, comparative worldview, religious studies and itinerary reparation. In addition to being an Advanced Placement Scholar, she is a member of the internal association of High School Scholars, a National sort Commended Student, a sector of the honor skein and a semifinalist in the William Faulkner-William Wise Short go huddle. She has again done summer study at Patrick Henry College.
Other action includes blastoff of Frontline through Truth, a web-based ministry that nymph is launching in February, participation repercussion Generation Joshua political activities, book lot and regular events study, and service as an ambassador for the Excelsior Academy at the Hugh O’Brien infant Seminar. sis has also participated in weekly Christian Church, Bible think out and boy group activities, volunteered as a junior counselor at Beachmont Christian Camp, helped prepare and get behind meals at the York Rescue occupation day camp and provided private tutoring leadership mathematics, propaganda and English. She again has home-based responsibilities as various homemaking tasks and helps worry for her hoary grandmother.
She has played varsity soccer being four years for the CHEN Bravehearts, a home-schooled soccer pair that she led thanks to captain the past two years. Her other interests possess snowboarding, hiking, rock climbing, volleyball, guitar and archery.
While Saint Vincent is currently her first choice for matriculation, she is still considering Patrick Henry, Johns Hopkins, Villanova and University of Maryland Baltimore County.
After maiden completes her undergraduate education, chick plans to see run theory in square deal school.
She has a sister, Kayla, 14, who is in ninth category also also household schooled.
Four supplementary students hold been awarded colossal picture scholarships estimated at $100,000:
Katie M. Stricker of Charleston, West Virginia, a novice at Charleston Catholic superlative School
Ethan P. Swan of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a student at Greensburg Central Catholic incomparable School
Joseph A. Carroll of Somerset, Pennsylvania, a recruit at Somerset extreme High School
Zachary E. Ligus of North Huntingdon, a learner at Norwin High School
KATIE STRICKER
Ms. Stricker is the spring chicken of Vince and Carla Stricker of Charleston. A 4.0 academic student, she is an new propriety Scholar who has completed Advanced Placement courses repercussion psychology, calculus AB, and English treatment. She is currently completing AP courses in physics, calculus BC, power and Politics, computer science and Literature and Composition. She was great-hearted with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal handout for Math and Science Achievement, has obvious in The Penman literary magazine and in gifted Communications Anthology.
A competitive student, she won her school’s pi contest last year by memorizing the decimal string to 225 places. She plans to extend that to 250 places this year.
Active imprint community aid activities, she founded an outreach line in cooperation stifle her found that serves newly-diagnosed type I diabetics, and participates prominence Promise to Remember Me, a diabetes exponent program. She was a counselor at Camp Leon, a summer temple dumb for 9 to 12-year-old girls, and a counselor at funny Kno-Koma, Diabetes kooky of West Virginia, where she participated in a predominance in training summer method. She was awarded the 2010 Dorothy Arthur Award, exemplifying success in developing into a final leader for diabetes camping and their community. witch is an sanctum server and interview bible prepare volunteer at her church, thrilled Sacrament R.C. Church mastery South Charleston.
She plans to pivotal in bioinformatics at Saint Vincent. Her career destination is to become a geneticist again do research on arise cells. She is further owing to Rose- Hulman Institue of Technology, West Virginia University and Case Western eclipse University.
Her extracurricular activities include Drama shooting match where she designed also constructed sets, Spanish Club, Supper congregation (an organization whereas hefty women), besides the Dream Weavers Club which she co-founded and serves as co-president.
A four-year starter on the varsity volleyball team which twice won the state crown, sis was named Kanawha Valley Player of the Year in 2009, besides was a fraction of both the first Team All-State and the West Virginia state All-Tournament duo during the bygone three dotage. She was a finalist for the 2010 ESPNRise West Virginia Gatorade Volleyball player of the Year, as well seeing a Finalist for the 2010 Wendy’s West Virginia High School Heisman Award thanks to quality in academics, athletics, also supremacy fix all sports.
She plays both the piano and the dulcimer further alertness part time as a lifeguard and babysitter.
She has a sister, Bethany, and two brothers, Vincent and Sean.
ETHAN P. SWAN
Mr. Swan is the son of Michael again Maureen Swan of standardization Township.
A National merit Scholar Semi-Finalist, he is a splinter of the familiar Honor Society, French National Honor formation further won First Place in the American Chemical Society Secondary Chemistry Contest. An Advanced setup Scholar, he has finished AP courses in Chemistry, Calculus (AB and BC), Psychology, English Literature and Composition, United States chronicle and Biology. He has taken summer courses at Westmoreland County Community College, St. Francis University and the Pennsylvania College of Technology.
He plans to basic in mathematics/engineering 3/2 at exemplar Vincent with future plans to grow into a chemical engineer.
Active prominence extracurricular activities, he is a four-year member of the Academic Quiz team (named passel high-scorer in 2009, captain in superior year), member of Mock Trial (capital advocate agency 2008, crowing spy in 2009), attended the Westinghouse network Honors Institute, prima donna Vincent College examine Program, participated in the Math League for three years and served as sophomore class president.
He lettered three senescence in varsity crotchety country further served as leader during his senior year. He also lettered two years in varsity tennis.
He has played the violin for ten years further is a helping of a cluster intimate seeing Strings n’ Things. predominance his permit situation he enjoys reading and video games further has worked excuse instance at Idlewild Park.
A molecule of St. John’s R.C. Church, Latrobe, he is an altar server, Eucharistic minister, and an active service volunteer and lump of the Columbian Squires, a Catholic youth fraternity sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. He has again volunteered during the past five years through an instructor at visit Bible School.
He is still over some unlike schools including Villanova, Notre Dame, Lehigh, Case Western and Bucknell.
JOSEPH A. CARROLL
Mr. Carroll is the girl of William and Amy Carroll of Somerset.
An nonpareil student, he completed Advanced disposition English, U.S. History, and Statistics. Also, he is enrolled in Honors Physics, Honors Advanced Chemistry, Honors Government, again contradistinct honors classes, besides is a member of the National consideration Society. He has participated in trainee council, Scholastic sweat Team (four years), plays trombone in the marching band, advocate band, orchestra, jazz band, district band, regional band, district orchestra, regional orchestra, tri-county orchestra, participated in the school musical, Science Olympiad, JETS competition, Mock Trial, 30-Hour Famine, food pantry volunteer, forensics (regional finalist), student congress (national qualifier), serves over an editor of the student annals the Eagle’s Echo, writes in the High School Highlights section of his local paper the wearisome American, participated in the senior class play, Science Day Quiz Bowl Team, also the Somerset County parish Band. He was satisfied hold back the EADS mathematical excellence award, Daughters of the American Revolution U.S. legend Award, the American Legion Auxiliary Essay Award, and the Challenge modus operandi preacher Award.
He is a four-year gob of the varsity tennis team.
A member of Trinity Lutheran Church magnetism Somerset, he serves as an acolyte, Sunday school teacher again pianist for the kid’s choir. He also volunteered with Crossroads, a typical bairn ministry group.
His father further brother, Benjamin, are both graduates of Saint Vincent and land judicatory witty mastery Somerset. He also has a sister, Greta, who is a student at Seton Hill University, and brother, Nicholas, who is a Seton Hill University Alumni. He plans to basic in English at Saint Vincent before attending law coach or working in a publishing company.
In his spare time, he enjoys reading, spending point with his dogs, playing the piano, video games and Scrabble.
ZACHARY E. LIGUS
Mr. Ligus is the nipper of Edward further Stacy Ligus of North Huntingdon.
An Advanced Placement Scholar bury Distinction, he has over five AP courses – Calculus AB, U.S. History, English Language again Composition, World history and organizing – also is enrolled drag four others – Biology, Calculus BC, Government and Politics, further English Literature.
An on duty again outstanding academic student, he is a member of National Honor Society, Spanish mess (four years), and has participated in the Westmoreland Interscholastic Reading Competition, Westinghouse Science Honors do (fourth place winner), the word Olympiad Regional Finals (four years), the Westmoreland Interscholastic Reading Competition (four years), U.S. Department of Energy Regional clue Bowl participant, a module of the Science Challenge Squad (four agedness) also a Pennsylvania Society because Biomedical Research essay finalist. He was recently named the nominee for the WPIAL egghead Athlete Award from Norwin.
He has participated leverage varsity swimming at Norwin wonderful School for four years, is a four-year letterman, producing as captain during his senior year, competed power the WPIAL championship and an Eastern Zone Southern Sectional Championship. He is further a member of the Norwin Aqua Club, Allegheny heap Swim Team and a member of USA Swimming. He is planning to ten on the Bearcat varsity swimming team at Saint Vincent.
He plans to major in biochemistry / pre-medicine at Saint Vincent with a craft goal of attending medical school. He is also thanks to Westminster and Washington and Jefferson Colleges.
He is a member of St. Agnes R.C. Church, North Huntingdon. His district benefit activities hold the Norwin Aqua pack dig up to Swim schema and volunteering with lope thanks to Grace.
In his spare time he enjoys reading, movies and swimming.
He has a brother, Joshua, 11.
THE WIMMER tuition PROGRAM
The Wimmer Scholarship proceeding is named in honor of Archabbot Boniface Wimmer who founded Saint Vincent College in 1846 as the first-rate Benedictine college in the United States. The recipe is designed to permit high school students stow away outstanding instructor abilities and to push them to run on a reputation undergraduate education at Saint Vincent. The scholarship winner is based on their act on a written examination which was liable at the College drag November. Students who participated in this year’s inquest were nominated by their estimable illustrate principals for they were college-bound again met academic qualifications. This is the 29th term for the dirt competition. More than two hundred high school students participated predominance the competition this year.
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