50-plus high school seniors National Merit Semifinalists

More than 50 local high school seniors have been named National Merit Semifinalists.

University High in Tucson Unified School District led the pack with 21 semifinalists. Catalina Foothills High in Catalina Foothills Unified was next with a dozen.

National Merit Scholars will be announced later this school year.

The students and their schools are:

BASIS School - Emily K. Hosokawa, Colin J. Killick, Katarina Kolesikova

Canyon del Oro High School - Paige E. Handley, Shawn Musgrave, Elizabeth A. Roberts

Catalina Foothills High School - Vaishnav Aradhyula, Stephen M. Brown, Alice Cai, Kathryn I. Cunningham, Veronica M. Haakonsen, Jessica J. Hung, Justin M. Ludlow, Sangwon Moon, Thomas H. Myers, Michael R. Nelson, Aileen C. Palmer, Mary X. Wang

Ironwood Ridge High School - Kyle D. Avery, Kevin M. Berg, Gregory B. Jacob, Michael S. Korn, Allen W. Li, Scott D. Truitt, Oian Xu

Pusch Ridge Christian Academy - Peter LaMear

Rincon High School - Markleigh G. Swanson

Sabino High School - Emily J. Brown

Salpointe Catholic High School - Lissa Mary E. Glynn, Angelynn M. Hermes, David G. Ware

St. Gregory College Preparatory School - David D. Cornell, Julia M. Olszewski, Allison P. Towner

Tucson High Magnet School - Ruthe J. Foushee, Alex L. Pattison

University High School - Polina Bartik, Aaron B. Brown, Jamie N. Burrows, Kristi L. Critchley, Hafez Gharbiah, Adeline A. Hill, Matthew O. Hom, Kevin B. Keller, Eric Lehnhardt, Derek B. Leverenz, Natali E. Liu, Ian H. McEwen, Matthew R. Noble, Mario B. Parks, Caitlin A. Regan, Joshua D. Schulter, Kelley J. Smith, Luke A. Teece, Shangwen Wei, Xingyuan Yu, Jin Zhang