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
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.