Of the 27 recipients of this year’s $5,000 high-school scholarships presented at the annual Northern Virginia Athletic Directors Administrators and Coaches Association (NVADACA) breakfast banquet, four were from Arlington’s public schools.
The NVADACA organization has been awarding college grants to graduating high school seniors since 1980. This year’s banquet was held at Springfield Golf & Country Club, and the 27 winners were the most ever awarded in one year.
Founded in 1976, NVADACA has awarded more than $1 million in scholarships to 600-plus students.
The 2025 honorees were recognized and introduced at the banquet, with their achievements plus a student message from each read aloud by master of ceremonies Jeff Wilson and NVADACA president Yvonne Griggs.
Arlington award recipients were Margaret Flannery-Goodman from Yorktown High School, Sydney Lowe and Isabelle Young-Smith from Wakefield High, and Kelly McIntyre from Washington-Liberty High.
Flannery-Goodman received the John R. Grinnell Scholarship, Lowe the Fran Kibler, Young-Smith the Maryann Schwab and McIntyre the John C. Youngblood.
Winners were selected from the hundred-plus seniors who applied from the Northern Virginia jurisdictions that have public high schools in Arlington and Fairfax counties and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church.
The other 23 honorees:
- Molly Moore, Meridian High School (Mary O. Ambler Scholarship); Amelia Shoemaker, Marshall High School (Patricia A. Bergan); Kaylee Horner, West Springfield High School (Richard C. “RC” Bosley); Isabella Lalli, Westfield High School (Elizabeth S. Brooks); Sylvia Hieber, Fairfax High School (Ralph E. Buckley); Devyn Telleen, Centreville High School (William Jackson Burkholder); Nesrine Harrache, Fairfax High School (Ralph F. Clark); Nathan Carbaugh, Westfield High School (Scott & Phyllis Crabtree Family Foundation & Pohanka Automotive Group Scholarship); David Oh, Centreville High School (Patrick J. Cunningham); James Butlin, South Lakes High School (George Felton); Laura Stoker, Justice High School (Virgil B. Harris, Jr.); Josephine Damico-Lassman, Alexandria City High School (Herbert Holt).
- Ally Campbell, Meridian High School (Marvel Emogene “Jean” Johnson); A.C. Ross, West Springfield High School (George A. Keim); Wyatt Jessup, Centreville High School (Tommy Lyles); Brayden Humpherys, Herndon High School (Jimmie Miller); Sage Nagle, Annandale High School (Rachael E. Peters); Sarah Rupp, Fairfax High School (Thomas H. Porter, Jr.); Ethan Lebkisher, Marshall High School (Charles L. Price); Jake Benningfield, West Potomac High School (Jim Ross); Joseph Liller, Justice High School (Whipkey McAteer Family Fund); Kalina Janevski, Alexandria City High School (Del Wilson); and Noah Peng, Meridian High School (Jeff Wilson).
