The highest-achieving students at Southwestern Community College were honored in the annual Academic Awards Ceremony on April 18 in Myers Auditorium on the college’s Jackson Campus.
Among the honorees were 56 students who received “high honors” for maintaining a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA.
Ellie Padgett was named the N.C. Community College System Academic Excellence award recipient.
The Charles McConnell New Century Scholar Award went to Leah Carter, and Jenice McKin received the Dallas Herring Achievement Award – given annually in honor of one of the state’s earliest advocates for community colleges.
Megan Beck won the Bob Scott Leadership Award, named after the former N.C. governor who also served as president of the state’s community college system for 12 years.
To qualify for the “Academic Honors” portion of the program, each student had to earn a minimum of 30 semester hours of credit within the last four years by the end of the fall semester at SCC, be enrolled in the spring semester and have a cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.5 or above.
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Pictured front row from left: Jasmine Robertson, Heather Waldroup, Mackensey Franklin, Ellie Padgett, Kassidy Coggins, Destiny Mills and Judith Lowery. Second row: Daisy Queen, Ethan Ramsey, Keira Smith, Tanya Messer, Tazanna Jones, Rieley Nichols, Sydney Lewis, Matishia Taylor and Georgianna Dunn. Third row: Carlton Sykes, Sven Hokanson, John Thompson, Adam Cardona-Cosner, Zackary Mason, Kaitlyn Putnam, Kari Putnam, Crystal Jenkins and Deanah Smith.
Pictured front row from left: Ted Trimble, BriAnna Campbell, Gabriela Rivera-Villa, Tina Cronberger, Emilee Duke and Sara Walker. Second row: Alyssa Smith, Callie Roper, Callie Barnett, Reese Ward, Abbi Miller, Emily Swanson, Elizabeth Crowe, Anika Zuiderveen and Abigail Young. Third row: Brandon Penney, Tevin Neal, Dalton Jones, Arlene Jones, Diane Mahoney, Kaydence McDonald, Cameron Rodewald, William Duggins and Brian Proveaux.
Pictured from left: Caleb Crisp, Mykah Linkinhoker and Dee Wilder.
Pictured from left: Sebastian Quigley and Hunter Ferguson.
Pictured: Chase Welch.
Pictured: Fallon Menard.
Pictured: Wendi Cooke.
