MOULTRIE, Ga. — Colquitt County High School presented a wide variety of awards to seniors at its Honors Night on May 3.

Seniors were honored in a 7 p.m. ceremony that included presentation of scholarships. See that story here.

Sophomores and juniors were honored at a 6 p.m. ceremony prior to the seniors’ event. See the story here for a listing of their awards.

Departmental Awards

Foreign Language Department

• Outstanding Spanish II Student: Hamza Mahmood.


• Outstanding Spanish III Student: Naiomi Valdez.

• Outstanding Spanish Speaker I Student: Luis Ramiro Palomares.


• Outstanding Spanish Speaker II Student: Angel Maldonado.

• Outstanding Latin II Student: Bryce Walker.

• Outstanding Latin III Student: Gracelyn Merritt.

• Outstanding American Sign Language II Student: Meghan Anderson.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Spanish Literature and Culture Student: Yaquelin Magana.

• The American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League: Cum Laude, Kolby Johnson.

• Excellence in World Language Award: Brooklyn Massey.

• Georgia Department of Education Seal of Biliteracy: Sugeili Gachuz and Eva Portillo Molina.



Language Arts Department

• Outstanding ESOL Student: Ruby Ramirez Guzman.

• Excellence in American Literature Student: Carlos Landa Gonzalez, Berlin Preciado Escalera and Ruby Ramirez Guzman.

• Excellence in Honors British Literature: Cyntoyia Polite and Sierra Wynn.

• Excellence in Advanced Composition: Madison DeMott, Kelly Blaylock, Zykevian Jackson, Noah Hightower, Macy Young and Brooklyn D. Massey.


• Excellence in Advanced Placement English Literature: Elizabeth Funderburk and Rebecca Viohl.

• Georgia Young Author Competition: German Llamas.

Mathematics Department

• Outstanding Statistical Reasoning Students: Nicole Perdomo and Morgann Fedd.


• Outstanding Honors Pre-Calculus Student: Brooke Taylor.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Statistics Student: Henry Everson.


• Outstanding Advanced Placement Calculus AB Student: Elizabeth Funderburk.


• Excellence in Mathematics: Henry Everson.

Science Department

• Outstanding Forensics Student: Jordan Kozlowski.


• Outstanding Effort Forensics Student: TyQwasia Peterson.


• Outstanding Human Anatomy Student: Jared Horne.


• Outstanding Human Anatomy Honors Student: Kelsee Brady.


• Outstanding Advanced Placement Physics I Student: Noah Rivera.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Physics II Student: James Mercer.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Biology Student: Henry Everson.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Environmental Science Student: Rebecca Viohl.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Chemistry Student: Kelsee Brady.

• Outstanding Advanced Placement Student: Sonny Patel.


• Excellence in Science Award: Patricia Mitchell.

Social Studies

• Advanced Placement Macroeconomics Academic Achievement Award: Sonny Patel.


• Advanced Placement Microeconomics Academic Achievement Award: Brandon Yates.


• The Jim Abney Award: Olena Maisonneuve.


• Woodmen Life Award: James Moore.


• Daughters of the American Revolution American History Award: Lori Ann King.

• DAR also presents the ROTC Award to: Kobe Kenney.

Fine Arts Department

• Outstanding Visual Arts student: Lili Martin-Rivera.

• Senior Members of the International Thespian Troupe: Darby Merritt, Gracelyn Merritt, Demetrius Baines, Z’Kierya Love, Zarriah Berry and Jacob Eubanks.

Program for Exceptional Children

• Teachers’ Choice Award: Madison DeMott.

• Anthony Harris Memorial Award: Juarez Clark.

Agricultural Education

• Outstanding Animal Science Student: John Mitchell.

• Outstanding Forestry Student: Jordan Kozlowski.

•  Outstanding Ag Mechanics III Student: Austin Watson.


• Outstanding Horticulture Students: Patricia Mitchell and Jacob Ming.

• Outstanding Overall Ag Students: Elizabeth Johnson, James Moore and Mary Logan Tostenson.

CTAE Department

• Outstanding Early Childhood Education I Student: Kylie Stone.

• Outstanding Early Childhood Education II Student: Molly Weems.

• Outstanding Early Childhood Education III Student: Kelly Blaylock.

• Outstanding Early Childhood Education Internship Student: Macy Young.

• Outstanding Food, Nutrition, and Wellness Student: Za’Nautica Downs.

• Outstanding Construction Students: Andrew Hogan and Zayne Hogan.

• Patient Care Fundamentals Award: Kimberlin Daniels.

• Dual Enrollment Nurses Aide Fundamentals: Michelle Weeks.

• Medical Service Internship Award: Patricia Dominguez-Dominguez.

• Exceptional Dual Enrollment Emergency Medical Responder: Leah Nieves.

• Outstanding Transportation Student: Ethan Bynum.

• Outstanding Audio, Video, Tech, and Film Students: Chloe Jennings, Alec Crews and Allison Logan.

• Outstanding Metals Technology Students: Daniel Rocha Mendoza.

• Work Based Learning/ Youth Apprenticeship Program: Noelle Lang.

• Outstanding Future Business Leaders of America Student Award: Andrew Ramirez.

• Outstanding ROTC Student Award: Jose Galvan.

• Distinguished Athlete Award: Kaleb Dawson and Diamond Hall.

• United States Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award: Dante Moore and Morgann Fedd.

AP Scholars

• AP Scholar with Honor: Rebecca Viohl.

• Other senior AP Scholars: Ra’mya Aikens, Kelsee Brady, Elizabeth Funderburk, Patricia Mitchell, Zachary Moncrief, James Moore, Eva Portillo Molina and Brandon Yates.

Georgia Scholars

• Mary Grace Watson

Merit Graduates

• Tristan Addi.

• Peyton Alderman.

• Hannah Renae Allen.

• Hennessy Arnold.

• Haley Baker.

• Zarriah Berry.

• Abigail Billings.

• Kelly Blaylock.

• Kensley Braswell.

• Ethan Bynum.

• Conner Cardin.

• Robert Casteel.

• Jayce Clark.

• Peyton Clark.

• Gracie Cobb.

• Adaisia Collier.

• Ethan Coppock.

• Shyanna Corman.

• Matthew Crosby.

• Taylor Dabdoub.

• Kaleb Dawson.

• Quentin Dopson.

• John Edwards.

• Edwin Esquivel.

• Jacob Eubanks.

• Adamaris Gonzaga-Cartas.

• Jesus Gonzalez.

• Joseph Griffin.

• Alexis Griner.

• Jordon Hall.

• Cyera Haynes.

• Brenda Hernandez Acosta.

• Noah Hightower.

• Annalisa Illian.

• Grace Jarvis.

• William Johnston.

• Kobe Kenney.

• Ty’brea Lamar.

• Micah Lawhorne.

• Pham Le.

• Z’kierya Love.

• Kiana Lowery.

• Hamza Mahmood.

• Thomas Martin.

• Brittany McDuffie.

• Lindsey McKellar.

• Gracelyn Merritt.

• JaBin Merritt.

• Dante Moore.

• Laura Lee Murphy.

• Cory Newsome.

• Leah Nieves.

• Jordan Penuel.

• Nicole Perdomo.

• Cyntoyia Polite.

• Berlin Preciado Escalera.

• Autumn Roberts.

• Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez.

• Karla Rodriguez-Rubio.

• Yesicca Romulo.

• Wesley Smith.

• Abiyah Spencer.

• Kylie Stone.

• Mason Tabb.

• Mitchell Taylor.

• Leena Viruet.

• Michelle Weeks.

• Tanner Wilson.

• Hunter Wood.

• Sierra Wynn.

• Macy Young.

Honor Graduates

• Ra’mya Aikens.

• Christopher Blanton.

• Kelsee Brady.

• Keri Brown.

• Valentina Carrichi.

• Alec Crews.

•  Michael Crosby.

• Cheyenne Dahlgren.

• Dylan Dalton.

• Thuan Dang.

• Patricia Dominguez-Dominguez.

• Henry Everson.

• Caroline Frazier.

• Elizabeth Funderburk.

• Sugeili Gachuz.

• Diamond Hall.

• Samantha Hall.

• Parker Hardigree.

• Sarah Harrell.

• Hannah Hartsfield.

• Jenna Hayden.

• Thomas Holman.

• Jared Horne.

• Kelliann Howell.

• Olivia Isaacs.

• Chloe Jennings.

• Harrison Kebler.

• Lori Ann King.

• Steven Krajewski.

• Noelle Lang.

• Grace Lardy.

• Lili Martin-Rivera.

• Brooklyn Massey.

• Elijah Massey.

• James Mercer.

• Maggie Merriman.

• Darby Merritt.

• Selena Meza.

• Jacie Middlebrooks.

• Patricia Mitchell.

• Eyona Moore.

• James Moore.

• Gavin Patel.

• Sonny Patel.

• Yesenia Ponce-Gonzalez.

• Eva Portillo Molina.

• Allison Riggins.

• Noah Rivera.

• Karly Rivers.

• Katelyn Scites.

• Shirley Sparks.

• Abriana Stancil.

• Randi Tapscott.

• Brooke Taylor.

• Matthew Taylor.

• Suzanne Taylor.

• Mary Logan Tostenson.

• Ryan Trevino.

• Gilberto Vasquez-Sanchez.

• Brian Velasco.

• Rebecca Viohl.

• Victarie Walker.

• Mary Grace Watson.

• Emma Whatley.

• Brandon Yates.

• Jordan Yates.

• Vicky Zhang.

Top Ten Seniors

• Kelsee Brady.

• Caroline Frazier.

• Elizabeth Funderburk. Valedictorian with a grade point average of 102.667.

• Patricia Mitchell. Salutatorian with a grade point average of 101.53.

• James Moore.

• Eva Portillo Molina.

• Rebecca Viohl.

• Mary Grace Watson.

• Brandon Yates.

• Vicky Zhang.