Our 2017 Coke Scholars
We are thrilled to announce our 29th class of Coca-Cola Scholars!
These 150 Coca-Cola Scholars have each received a $20,000 college scholarship and joined a family of alumni who are leading positive change in their communities and around the world.
The entire class of Scholars attended the 2017 Scholars Weekend April 20-23, 2017, for a time of inspiration, fun, and camaraderie. Scholars were honored at our 29th annual Scholars Banquet and participated in our Leadership Development Institute, an intensive leadership training during Scholars Weekend that challenges them to develop an inside-out leadership philosophy.
Share in their celebrations and follow their Scholars Weekend experience with #2017CokeScholars.
| First Name | Last Name | City | State | High School |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson | Blackwell | Soldotna | AK | Soldotna High School |
| Joseph | Holbrook | Boaz | AL | Boaz High School |
| Kathryn | Gardner | Fayetteville | AR | Fayetteville Sr High School |
| Brennen | Feder | Tucson | AZ | Catalina Foothills High School |
| Antonio | Ferris | Mesa | AZ | BASIS Mesa High School |
| Dhruv | Iyer | Chandler | AZ | Hamilton High School |
| Aakanksha | Saxena | Scottsdale | AZ | Desert Mountain High School |
| Heba | Shiban | Chandler | AZ | Chandler High School |
| Divya | Vatsa | Scottsdale | AZ | Basis Scottsdale Charter School |
| Meena | Venkataramanan | Tucson | AZ | Catalina Foothills High School |
| Justin | Zhu | Chandler | AZ | Hamilton High School |
| Paulina | Anzaldo | Chino Hills | CA | Ruben S Ayala Sr High School |
| Jessika | Baral | Fremont | CA | Mission San Jose High School |
| Jorge | Campos | Los Angeles | CA | Manual Arts Senior High School |
| Daniela | Cervantes | Greenfield | CA | Greenfield High School |
| Annette | Chang | Irvine | CA | Woodbridge High School |
| Samuel | Gorman | Burbank | CA | Burbank Senior High School |
| Mallika | Jain | San Jose | CA | San Jose Academy |
| Justin | Kawaguchi | Newbury Park | CA | Newbury Park High School |
| Anna | Lou | Cypress | CA | Oxford Academy High School |
| Emily | Lu | Santa Rosa | CA | Maria Carrillo High School |
| Sophia | Qin | Goleta | CA | Dos Pueblos High School |
| Shalin | Shah | Las Flores | CA | Tesoro High School |
| Vaibhavi | Shah | Corona | CA | Centennial High School |
| Zoi | Urban | Santa Maria | CA | Ernest Righetti High School |
| Neha | Venkatesh | Richmond | CA | Salesian High School |
| Gavin | Arneson | Idahow Springs | CO | Clear Creek High School |
| Rebecca | Bloomfield | Colorado Springs | CO | William J Palmer High School |
| Bridget | Galaty | Denver | CO | Denver School of the Arts |
| Dillon | Hunter | Denver | CO | Denver Ctr for Internatinal Studies |
| Wyatt | Hurt | Grand Junction | CO | Central High School |
| Henry | Kvietok | Aurora | CO | Cherokee Trail High School |
| Mayank | Mishra | Lafayette | CO | Peak to Peak Charter School |
| Aakshi | Agarwal | Hamden | CT | Hamden High School |
| Grace | Otley | Wilmington | DE | Cab Calloway School of the Arts |
| Debora | Gonzalez | Miami | FL | School for Advanced Studies Wolfson |
| Adriana | Nazarko | St. Petersburg | FL | Lakewood Senior High School |
| Abraham | Waserstein | Boca Raton | FL | Donna Klein Jewish Academy |
| Amber | Yang | Winter Park | FL | Trinity Prep School Of Florida |
| Matthew | Brantley | Danielsville | GA | Madison County High School |
| Lucy | Chuang | Duluth | GA | Duluth High School |
| Isabelle | Riddle | Canton | GA | Sequoyah High School |
| Nitish | Sood | Alpharetta | GA | Alpharetta High School |
| Nivedha | Soundappan | Warner Robins | GA | Houston County High School |
| Lily | Jenkins | Hoolehua | HI | Molokai High Intermediate School |
| Emilia | Porubcin | Betterndorf | IA | Rivermont Collegiate High School |
| Guowei | Qi | West Des Moines | IA | Valley High School |
| Kavya | Anjur | Aurora | IL | Metea Valley High School |
| Jane | Boettcher | Naperville | IL | Naperville North High School |
| Saneha | Borisuth | Moline | IL | Moline Senior High School |
| Holly | Cunningham | Evenston | IL | Evanston Township High School |
| Alejandro | Garcia Escobar Plascencia | Libertyville | IL | Libertyville High School |
| Rajath | Salegame | Aurora | IL | Waubonsie Valley High School |
| Ezequiel | Gonzalez | Indianapolis | IN | Ben Davis High School |
| Kathy | Huang | Carmel | IN | Carmel High School |
| Maria | Lysandrou | Bloomington | IN | Bloomington High School South |
| Aaron | Crum | Pikeville | KY | Pikeville High School |
| Andre | Faria | Paintsville | KY | Paintsville High School |
| Dennis | Mashindi | Lexington | KY | Paul Laurence Dunbar High School |
| Lydia | Mason | Louisville | KY | duPont Manual High School |
| Lucia | Boyd | Shreveport | LA | Loyola College Preparatory School |
| Anusha | Datar | Burlington | MA | Burlington High School |
| Deni | Hoxha | Worcester | MA | South High Community High School |
| Nihar | Sheth | Westford | MA | Westford Academy High School |
| Irene | Wu | Newtonville | MA | Newton North High School |
| Zainab | Badejo | Glen Burnie | MD | Glen Burnie Senior High School |
| Meron | Haile | Silver Spring | MD | Springbrook High School |
| Tingyu | Li | Ellicott City | MD | Centennial High School |
| Yomna | Nassar | Clarksville | MD | River Hill High School |
| Natalie | Gale | Cape Elizabeth | ME | Cape Elizabeth High School |
| Shuqi | Chen | Ann Arbor | MI | Ann Arbor-Huron High School |
| Oluwakemi | Dauda | Detroit | MI | Benjamin Carson School of Sci&Med |
| Cydney | Gardner-Brown | Detroit | MI | Renaissance High School |
| Neha | Paragi | Troy | MI | Athens High School |
| Soroosh | Sabouni | Battle Creek | MI | Lakeview High School |
| Christie | Greason | Rochester | MN | Mayo High School |
| Nikhil | Marda | Rochester | MN | John Marshall High School |
| Heather | Weller | New York Mills | MN | New York Mills High School |
| Keturah | Gadson | Maryland Heights | MO | Pattonville High School |
| Ibrahim | Javaid | St. Louis | MO | Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience |
| Tejas | Sekhar | St Louis | MO | Saint Louis Priory High School |
| Bridget | McMillan | Long Beach | MS | Long Beach Senior High School |
| Robert | Slaughter | Hattiesburg | MS | Sacred Heart Catholic High School |
| Colin | Norick | Columbia Falls | MT | Columbia Falls High School |
| Carmen | Duran | Newton | NC | Newton Conover Health Science High School |
| Sarah | Eagan | Gastonia | NC | Highland School of Technology High School |
| Myah | Hobgood | Charlotte | NC | West Charlotte Sr High School |
| Shiaoching | Tse | Durham | NC | North Carolina Sch Sci & Math |
| Evan | Welsh | Grand Forks | ND | Central High School |
| Priya | Kukreja | Omaha | NE | Millard North High School |
| Neelam | Sandhu | Bedford | NH | Bedford High School |
| Mary | Zhu | Nashua | NH | Nashua High School South |
| Winona | Guo | Princeton | NJ | Princeton High School |
| Suzan | Kim | Hackensack | NJ | Academy Business/Computer Tech High School |
| Ifeoma | White-Thorpe | Rockaway | NJ | Morris Hillls High School |
| Kelly | Charley | Farmington | NM | Navajo Preparatory School Inc |
| Sheryl | Chen | Staten Island | NY | Staten Island Technical High School |
| Alec | Fischthal | Hewlett | NY | George W Hewlett High School |
| Shalva | Gozland | New York | NY | Manhattan School For Girls |
| Daniel | Midgette | Bethpage | NY | Bethpage High School |
| Kaiyell | Pettie | New York | NY | High School for Economics/Finance |
| Anjali | Verma | Kings Park | NY | Kings Park High School |
| Shaina | Zafar | Franklin Square | NY | H Frank Carey High School |
| Sarah | Hong | Solon | OH | Solon High School |
| Anitra | Karthic | New Albany | OH | New Albany High School |
| Swathi | Srinivasan | Beachwood | OH | Beachwood High School |
| Miguel | Chavez | Oklahoma City | OK | Western Heights High School |
| William | Church | Fairview | OK | Fairview High School |
| Sage | Counts | Ada | OK | Latta High School |
| Rachel | Dockrey | Dale | OK | Dale High School |
| Caleb | Morrow | Altus | OK | Altus High School |
| Zac | Quinby | Woodward | OK | Woodward High School |
| Sravya | Alla | Malvern | PA | Great Valley High School |
| Julie | Chen | Wexford | PA | North Allegheny Sr High School |
| Yara | El-Khatib | Wexford | PA | North Allegheny Sr High School |
| Dana | Emswiler | Allentown | PA | Parkland High School |
| RonnieMarie | Falasco | Newtown Square | PA | Delaware County Christian High School |
| Urvi | Gupta | Cranberry Twp | PA | Seneca Valley Sr. HS |
| Arvind | Parthasarathy | Allentown | PA | Parkland High School |
| Alexis | Schneider | Ft Washington | PA | Upper Dublin High School |
| Marissa | Witmer | Quarryville | PA | Solanco High School |
| Dorothy | Zhao | Newtown | PA | Council Rock High School (North) |
| Jenning | Chen | Columbia | SC | Spring Valley High School |
| Jeremy | Evans | Lake City | SC | Lake City High School |
| Latia | Harvin | Greeleyville | SC | C.E. Murray High School |
| Devin | Srivastava | Spartanburg | SC | Spartanburg Day School |
| Frelicia | Tucker | Aiken | SC | Aiken High School |
| Vinila | Baljepally | Knoxville | TN | Bearden High School |
| Jonathan | Kampf | Memphis | TN | Margolin Hebrew Academy |
| Frances | Sentilles | Memphis | TN | Hutchison School High School |
| Nicole | Anyanwu | Irving | TX | The North Hills High School |
| Aneel | Damaraju | Corpus Christi | TX | W B Ray High School |
| Lorenzo | Daniel | Flower Mound | TX | Edward Marcus High School |
| Melinda | Hsieh | El Paso | TX | Coronado High School |
| Emily | Jue | League City | TX | Clear Springs High School |
| Nabihah | Khalid | Austin | TX | John B. Connally High School |
| Reilly | Menchaca | Austin | TX | Hyde Park Baptist High School |
| Cage | Sawyers | Van Alstyne | TX | Van Alstyne High School |
| Saherish | Surani | Corpus Christi | TX | Veterans Memorial High School |
| Tanner | Bennett | Murray | UT | American International High School |
| Annie | Yun | Salt Lake City | UT | West High School |
| Logan | Apple | Winchester | VA | Millbrook High School |
| Zainab | Balogun | Charlottesville | VA | Albemarle High School |
| Alla | Issa | Hampton | VA | Hampton High School |
| Alexander | Lin | Fairfax | VA | James W Robinson Jr High School |
| Jessica | Bae | Mukilteo | WA | Kamiak High School |
| Surabhi | Mundada | Olympia | WA | Olympia High School |
| Amy | Nguyen | Tukwila | WA | Foster High School |
| Yasna | Vismale | Seattle | WA | James A Garfield High School |
| Ahmed | Mohamed | Charleston | WV | George Washington High School |
Scholars List
2025 Semifinalists
1,336 high school seniors have been selected from 105,000+ submitted applications from across the country to advance to the next stage of our selection process!
The 2025 Semifinalists
1,336 high school seniors have been selected from 105,000+ submitted applications from across the country to advance to the next stage of our selection process!
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.