Student Accolades for 2011/2012

Sports	Speech and English	Future Business Leaders of America

Fine Arts	Band	Choir

Science	Mathematics	Engineering Challenges

Some Individual Accolades
Madison DeLawder is the 2012 State Champion for the Senior Novice Division for Horse Judging. The Competition took place on April 21, 2012 at the University of Maryland. At this competition, she also earned the honor to compete for a spot on the Maryland State Hippology (Study of Horses) Team which will travel to the American Quarter Horse Congress in Ohio and the Eastern National Competition in Kentucky to compete against other teams from all over the country.
Madison DeLawder earned a spot to compete at the Inter-School Horse Show Series Invitational on April 22, 2012. She placed 2^nd (Reserve Champion) in her division. Madison represented Wilde Lake High School as an individual against 40 other Schools Equestrian Teams from around the state of Maryland, Including River Hill and Glenelg from Howard County. Representing Wilde Lake, Madison's individual efforts placed Wilde Lake 12^th out of 41 schools.
Study Abroad Senior Hannah Swearman has just been accepted by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to live and study in Muscat, Oman with the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Program. Long interested in language studies, Hannah participated in HCC's StarTalk Arabic program last summer and spent this year in GT Research studying International Relations, specifically between the US and Muslim nations. Please join me in congratulating Hannah and wishing her well as she goes off to Oman in August! Hannah is one of only 55 American students selected for this program!
Presidential Scholars Senior James Williams, has been named as a candidate in the 2012 United States Presidential Scholars Program. Joe Wan from Wilde Lake is also a candidate. Click here for a complete list of candidates.

Sports
Sportsmanship Cup Wilde Lake High School is the 2011/2012 Sportsmanship Cup Winner. This is the first time WLHS is the Sportsmanship Cup Winner!
Penn Relays On Friday & Saturday (27 & 28 April) your Track & Field Program traveled to the University of Pennsylvania to compete at the Penn Relays- one of the oldest (est. in 1895) and most prestigious track meets in the United States. Wilde Lake fielded a 4x100 meter relay team made up of Tola Morakinyo, Daniel Andrews, Tre Jacks, and DeVaughn Garner. The 4x400 meter relay team of Tim Virostek, Anthony Rizzi, Duncan Enerson, and Daniel Johnson also performed well as one of the top schools in the region.
Allied Bowling In speaking for myself and the assistant coaches, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Players, Parents, and Staff who have made the Initial year for Allied Bowling such a success. Each bowler, some who had never played before, improved from that first week of practice to reach our final season total of 1 - Loss, 3 - Wins, and 2 - Ties. We look forward for the upcoming Allied Softball season and hope to have just as great a turn out! Sincerely, Sheila Taylor Please congratulate our Allied Bowlers in their win over Centennial HS. With our WildeCats finishing the season reaching the teams' highest average of 91! Linda Ayisi Trey Ballinger Jesus Benevidas Rebecca Cain Conor Kaczmarek—led our team by obtaining the highest scoring game for the season of 145! Jordan Proctor-Belt Viviana Vijoy Douglas Williams—Second match in which he scored over 100 in both games! A Special THANKS for coming out to support and assist the players to: Billy Martin Megan Stasak Rita Alexander and additionally: AAM/Coach Vince Parnell Ms. Erin Winston Mrs. Susan Bannister Ms. Nanette, and stuent members of out Best Buddies Program!
Tom Klotz was named Honorable Mention All-State Tight End.
Cross Country At the Cross Country Championships Tim Virostek led the Cats on the boys team with a 2^nd place finish. Duncan and Henry Enerson also medaled for the Cats and led the boys to a 2^nd place finish overall. The girls' posted several course personal records and did an outstanding job. While not finishing as high in the final standings, they still are sources of pride for the school in general and the coach in particularly.
Boys Golf Please congratulate Tyler Silberberg on winning the Maryland State Championship. He shot even par—this is Wilde Lake's first ever golf STATE CHAMPION! Tyler has also been named the Baltimore Sun's Male Athlete of the Week. Wilde Lake won the county championship—Tyler Silberberg (Also won the individual county championship), David Yancich (Came in second overall for the county championship), Rafey Iqbal, and Joe Boccher.
Brittany Kuntz and her horse accomplished much this summer through the USPC (United States Pony Club). Brittay is a C1 Rating and this summer qualified for USPC National Championships in Eventing and Show Jumping for the Maryland Region. She went to Lexington, Kentucky on the Beginner Novice Eventing Team #1 for the second year in a row. She hopes to go to the USEA AEC (United States Eventing Association American Eventing Championships) as well as USPC National Championships again next year—another great student athlete at Wilde Lake.

Sports

Sportsmanship Cup

Wilde Lake High School is the 2011/2012 Sportsmanship Cup Winner. This is the first time WLHS is the Sportsmanship Cup Winner!

Penn Relays

On Friday & Saturday (27 & 28 April) your Track & Field Program traveled to the University of Pennsylvania to compete at the Penn Relays- one of the oldest (est. in 1895) and most prestigious track meets in the United States.

Wilde Lake fielded a 4x100 meter relay team made up of Tola Morakinyo, Daniel Andrews, Tre Jacks, and DeVaughn Garner.

The 4x400 meter relay team of Tim Virostek, Anthony Rizzi, Duncan Enerson, and Daniel Johnson also performed well as one of the top schools in the region.

Allied Bowling

In speaking for myself and the assistant coaches, we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the Players, Parents, and Staff who have made the Initial year for Allied Bowling such a success. Each bowler, some who had never played before, improved from that first week of practice to reach our final season total of 1 - Loss, 3 - Wins, and 2 - Ties. We look forward for the upcoming Allied Softball season and hope to have just as great a turn out!
Sincerely,
Sheila Taylor

Please congratulate our Allied Bowlers in their win over Centennial HS. With our WildeCats finishing the season reaching the teams' highest average of 91!

Linda Ayisi
Trey Ballinger
Jesus Benevidas
Rebecca Cain
Conor Kaczmarek—led our team by obtaining the highest scoring game for the season of 145!
Jordan Proctor-Belt
Viviana Vijoy
Douglas Williams—Second match in which he scored over 100 in both games!

A Special THANKS for coming out to support and assist the players to:

Billy Martin
Megan Stasak
Rita Alexander

and additionally:

AAM/Coach Vince Parnell
Ms. Erin Winston
Mrs. Susan Bannister
Ms. Nanette, and
stuent members of out Best Buddies Program!

Tom Klotz was named Honorable Mention All-State Tight End.

Cross Country

At the Cross Country Championships Tim Virostek led the Cats on the boys team with a 2^nd place finish. Duncan and Henry Enerson also medaled for the Cats and led the boys to a 2^nd place finish overall. The girls' posted several course personal records and did an outstanding job. While not finishing as high in the final standings, they still are sources of pride for the school in general and the coach in particularly.

Boys Golf

Please congratulate Tyler Silberberg on winning the Maryland State Championship. He shot even par—this is Wilde Lake's first ever golf STATE CHAMPION! Tyler has also been named the Baltimore Sun's Male Athlete of the Week.

Wilde Lake won the county championship—Tyler Silberberg (Also won the individual county championship), David Yancich (Came in second overall for the county championship), Rafey Iqbal, and Joe Boccher.

Brittany Kuntz and her horse accomplished much this summer through the USPC (United States Pony Club). Brittay is a C1 Rating and this summer qualified for USPC National Championships in Eventing and Show Jumping for the Maryland Region. She went to Lexington, Kentucky on the Beginner Novice Eventing Team #1 for the second year in a row. She hopes to go to the USEA AEC (United States Eventing Association American Eventing Championships) as well as USPC National Championships again next year—another great student athlete at Wilde Lake.

Choir
Choir Competition Field Trip 26-29 April, Virginia Beach.The kids were wonderful. They walked away with 6 trophys. Concert Choir came in 2^nd in their Division and Barbershop and Chamber Singers came away with not only 1^st place in their Division, but out of all Divisions. Wilde Lake was also awarded Grand Champion of all choirs and an Award of Distinction (overall we placed 1^st, 2^nd, & 4^th out of 43 choirs that performed). We are very proud to be able to continue the tradition of having an award winning choir here at the Lake. The awards are in the front office if you would like to see them. Thank you for your support!

Choir

Choir Competition Field Trip 26-29 April, Virginia Beach.The kids were wonderful. They walked away with 6 trophys. Concert Choir came in 2^nd in their Division and Barbershop and Chamber Singers came away with not only 1^st place in their Division, but out of all Divisions. Wilde Lake was also awarded Grand Champion of all choirs and an Award of Distinction (overall we placed 1^st, 2^nd, & 4^th out of 43 choirs that performed). We are very proud to be able to continue the tradition of having an award winning choir here at the Lake. The awards are in the front office if you would like to see them. Thank you for your support!

Science
Ninth grader Katie Virostek, who earned 1^st Place here at the Wilde Lake STEM fair for her project, "What Can You See in the Dark?" (a study of low-contrast vision in low light), earned 2^nd place at the Baltimore International Science and Engineering Fair.
Howard County Envirothon Wilde Lake beat Riverhill at the Howard County Envirothon and will be representing Howard County at The Marland State Envirothon Competition. Wilde lake High school had three teams and so did Riverhill High School. Please congratulate our Winning Team: Stephen Meyer Jordan Taylor David Leiberg James Williams Izak Mason The school has been presented with a copy of a painting depicting the wise OWL. In addition each student from the winning team will receive a check for $100.00 from the Howard County Soil Conservation District.
Howard County STEM Fair A fantastic group of 9^th graders participated in the Howard County STEM fair on Saturday, February 25^th. Of the 16 projects submitted from the Lake, six placed 1^st or 2^nd in their categories (including a sweep of the Behavioral & Social Sciences category), while five more received other recognition. Please congratulate these students on their accomplishments! Category awards: Physics: Colin Murray and Daniel Osborne–Winners Behavioral & Social Sciences: Woudese Befikadu and Catherine Mariam–Winners Dylan Reynolds - Runner up Plant Science: Elizabeth Amare and Marina Chang–Winners Animal Science: Alex Greenstone and Zain Kazi–Runners up Chemistry: Madison DeLawder, Sabrina van der Gracht and Edward Williams–Runners up Blue Ribbon of Excellence award winners: Cuinn Mullins Eric Smart Katie Virostek Kenneth Yoon Kirsten Gutierrez Rachel Krell Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women in Science Certificate of Recognition: Alex Greenstone Zain Kazi Katie Virostek Congratulations to Ms. Bell and all of the students! Great job!

Science

Ninth grader Katie Virostek, who earned 1^st Place here at the Wilde Lake STEM fair for her project, "What Can You See in the Dark?" (a study of low-contrast vision in low light), earned 2^nd place at the Baltimore International Science and Engineering Fair.

Howard County Envirothon

Wilde Lake beat Riverhill at the Howard County Envirothon and will be representing Howard County at The Marland State Envirothon Competition. Wilde lake High school had three teams and so did Riverhill High School.

Please congratulate our Winning Team:

Stephen Meyer
Jordan Taylor
David Leiberg
James Williams
Izak Mason

The school has been presented with a copy of a painting depicting the wise OWL. In addition each student from the winning team will receive a check for $100.00 from the Howard County Soil Conservation District.

Howard County STEM Fair

A fantastic group of 9^th graders participated in the Howard County STEM fair on Saturday, February 25^th. Of the 16 projects submitted from the Lake, six placed 1^st or 2^nd in their categories (including a sweep of the Behavioral & Social Sciences category), while five more received other recognition. Please congratulate these students on their accomplishments!

Category awards:

Physics:: Colin Murray and Daniel Osborne–Winners
Behavioral & Social Sciences:: Woudese Befikadu and Catherine Mariam–Winners; Dylan Reynolds - Runner up
Plant Science:: Elizabeth Amare and Marina Chang–Winners
Animal Science:: Alex Greenstone and Zain Kazi–Runners up
Chemistry:: Madison DeLawder, Sabrina van der Gracht and Edward Williams–Runners up
Blue Ribbon of Excellence award winners:: Cuinn Mullins; Eric Smart; Katie Virostek; Kenneth Yoon; Kirsten Gutierrez; Rachel Krell
Sigma Delta Epsilon Graduate Women in Science Certificate of Recognition:: Alex Greenstone; Zain Kazi; Katie Virostek

Congratulations to Ms. Bell and all of the students! Great job!

Future Business Leaders of America
Please congratulate Katrina Hodge for her performance at FBLA State Conference. She placed 6^th in Cyber Security.
Please congratulate the (FBLA) Future Business Leaders of America students on their first regional competition this past Saturday, February 11, 2012. Wilde Lake High will be represented at the Maryland State Competition (FBLA) for the first time in 5 years. Competitors are: Katrina Hodge–Cyber Security Sienna Morris and Dejan Dobbs–Entrepreneurship Austin Jones–Computer Applications Amber-Jade Wrighton and Ebony Cirko-Whitehead–Marketing Linda Ayisi–Health Care Administration Elisha Miller–Economics

Future Business Leaders of America

Please congratulate Katrina Hodge for her performance at FBLA State Conference. She placed 6^th in Cyber Security.

Please congratulate the (FBLA) Future Business Leaders of America students on their first regional competition this past Saturday, February 11, 2012. Wilde Lake High will be represented at the Maryland State Competition (FBLA) for the first time in 5 years.

Competitors are:

Katrina Hodge–Cyber Security
Sienna Morris and Dejan Dobbs–Entrepreneurship
Austin Jones–Computer Applications
Amber-Jade Wrighton and Ebony Cirko-Whitehead–Marketing
Linda Ayisi–Health Care Administration
Elisha Miller–Economics

Engineering Challenges
IEEE Robot Challenge On the weekend of 14/15 April 2012, 59 teams from around the state met at the Baltimore Museum of Industry for the final portion of the IEEE Robot Challenge. Demonstrating the performance of their robot and providing an oral and written report culminated over two month of preparation on the part of each team. By far the most popular category was the two-legged manual robot with 53 entries. And the top two teams in this category were from Wilde Lake. "Team Maryland", represented at the challenge by team leaders Tim Virostek and Josh Tulkoff took first place and "Robo-Rilla", represented at the challenge by Arissa Falat and Eldar Zeynalov came in a close second.
First Robotics The Wilde Bunch team #4137 went to the FIRST Robotics competition in DC just before spring break and as a rookie team we were very pleased with our performance. Only one other rookie team from South Carolina ranked higher than us. Our final ranking was 34^th out of 63. Our highest ranking during the competition was 27^th. Our team really pulled together as a team and learned a lot that weekend. To score points the robots had to shoot baskets and balance, which we did both! In this team I saw the maturity and leadership skills really develop in this culminating activity.
Cargo Airplane Challenge Please congratulate Eric Webber and Alexander Broholm of team "Above the Clouds" for winning the Cargo Airplane Challenge.

Engineering Challenges

IEEE Robot Challenge

On the weekend of 14/15 April 2012, 59 teams from around the state met at the Baltimore Museum of Industry for the final portion of the IEEE Robot Challenge. Demonstrating the performance of their robot and providing an oral and written report culminated over two month of preparation on the part of each team. By far the most popular category was the two-legged manual robot with 53 entries.

And the top two teams in this category were from Wilde Lake. "Team Maryland", represented at the challenge by team leaders Tim Virostek and Josh Tulkoff took first place and "Robo-Rilla", represented at the challenge by Arissa Falat and Eldar Zeynalov came in a close second.

First Robotics

The Wilde Bunch team #4137 went to the FIRST Robotics competition in DC just before spring break and as a rookie team we were very pleased with our performance. Only one other rookie team from South Carolina ranked higher than us. Our final ranking was 34^th out of 63. Our highest ranking during the competition was 27^th. Our team really pulled together as a team and learned a lot that weekend. To score points the robots had to shoot baskets and balance, which we did both! In this team I saw the maturity and leadership skills really develop in this culminating activity.

Cargo Airplane Challenge

Please congratulate Eric Webber and Alexander Broholm of team "Above the Clouds" for winning the Cargo Airplane Challenge.

Mathematics
The Math Team finished their 2011-2012 season yesterday on Pi Day! They finished in first place of Division "B" so they will be moving up to Division "A" next year!
Four students were invited to represent Howard County (with other Howard County high school students) in a larger tournament in June at Penn State University due to their high cumulative score. Those students are Joe Wan, Nathaniel Frank, Adam Hemerly, and Ryu Matsuura (one of our exchange students from Japan).
The WLHS Math Team is in 1^st place of the B Division. The math team competes in county wide competitions and the members include: Joe Wan, Adam Hemerly, Nathaniel Frank, TJ Mallo, Jamie Herman, Shiloh Bertrand, Brittney Baleno, Tristan Hinman, Jeanette Van Sickle, Melissa Barall, Emily DeBoy, John Lund, Trevor Pitts, Candice Ho, Alexandra Greene, Rachel Rabinowitz, Simon Fines, Ben Lao, Tess Butler-Lapointe, Rachel Reinhard, Daniel Kim, Kyle Amoroso, Phil Bobrowsky, Michael Shaham, and Babette Newman.

Speech and English
On Saturday 2/25, three Wilde Lake students participated in the National Forensics League Chesapeake District Finals. This district covers Virginia, DC, Maryland and Delaware. Even with a tiny team, Wilde Lake placed third in the district. Senior Connor Adamson qualified for the final rounds in both US Extemp and International Extemp, placing 4th in both events. Out of a very tight field in Dramatic interpretation, Nikhil Manohar won 1st place. And the team of Russell Rollow and Nikhil Manohar placed 1st in duo interpretation and will be the sole team to represent the district at the NFL national championship tournament in Indianapolis this June.
Speech and Debate Wilde Lake's Speech and Debate Team has officially had its best season ever! At our last regular tournament on Saturday 2/11, they won 9 awards! Medalists include: Rachel Allred, Danielle Ortmann, Connor Adamson, Henry Enerson, Duncan Enerson, Russell Rollow, and Nikhil Manohar, who was again named top competitor! The team won 2nd place over all and was the highest rated public school. After the meet, qualifiers for post season competition were announced. 10 Wilde Lake students qualified, our most ever! Nikhil Manohar qualified in 4 events, Russell Rollow in 3, and Jimmy Siettmann and Rachel Allred in 2 events. Other qualifiers are: Danielle Ortmann, J.D. Sykes, Dayva Frank, Connor Adamson, Henry Enerson and Duncan Enerson. Please congratulate the Speech and Debate Team who placed 2nd out of 25 schools at Saturday's (28 January) meet at Reservoir High. Here's how they did it: Nikhil Manohar won gold in Drama with perfect scores in every round. He also won Gold in Duo Interpretation, with partner Russell Rollow, and placed second in the all-around competition. Wilde Lake's Extemporaneous Speaking team dominated with a three-way tie for silver among Connor Adamson, Duncan Enerson and Henry Enerson! Lastly, co-Captains Dayva Frank and Russell Rollow won Honorable Mentions in Lincoln-Douglas debate. Special thanks are due to Mr. John McGivern, who did double duty judging both speech and debate on Saturday!
Poetry Out Loud Please congratulate the winners of Wilde Lake's Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. 1^st place: Danielle Ortmann; 2^nd place: Jonathan Gendron; 3^rd place: Rachel Allred. These students will move on to the Howard County finals in January.

Speech and English

On Saturday 2/25, three Wilde Lake students participated in the National Forensics League Chesapeake District Finals. This district covers Virginia, DC, Maryland and Delaware. Even with a tiny team, Wilde Lake placed third in the district. Senior Connor Adamson qualified for the final rounds in both US Extemp and International Extemp, placing 4th in both events. Out of a very tight field in Dramatic interpretation, Nikhil Manohar won 1st place. And the team of Russell Rollow and Nikhil Manohar placed 1st in duo interpretation and will be the sole team to represent the district at the NFL national championship tournament in Indianapolis this June.

Speech and Debate

Wilde Lake's Speech and Debate Team has officially had its best season ever! At our last regular tournament on Saturday 2/11, they won 9 awards! Medalists include: Rachel Allred, Danielle Ortmann, Connor Adamson, Henry Enerson, Duncan Enerson, Russell Rollow, and Nikhil Manohar, who was again named top competitor! The team won 2nd place over all and was the highest rated public school.

After the meet, qualifiers for post season competition were announced. 10 Wilde Lake students qualified, our most ever! Nikhil Manohar qualified in 4 events, Russell Rollow in 3, and Jimmy Siettmann and Rachel Allred in 2 events. Other qualifiers are: Danielle Ortmann, J.D. Sykes, Dayva Frank, Connor Adamson, Henry Enerson and Duncan Enerson.

Please congratulate the Speech and Debate Team who placed 2nd out of 25 schools at Saturday's (28 January) meet at Reservoir High. Here's how they did it: Nikhil Manohar won gold in Drama with perfect scores in every round. He also won Gold in Duo Interpretation, with partner Russell Rollow, and placed second in the all-around competition. Wilde Lake's Extemporaneous Speaking team dominated with a three-way tie for silver among Connor Adamson, Duncan Enerson and Henry Enerson! Lastly, co-Captains Dayva Frank and Russell Rollow won Honorable Mentions in Lincoln-Douglas debate.

Special thanks are due to Mr. John McGivern, who did double duty judging both speech and debate on Saturday!

Poetry Out Loud

Please congratulate the winners of Wilde Lake's Poetry Out Loud recitation contest. 1^st place: Danielle Ortmann; 2^nd place: Jonathan Gendron; 3^rd place: Rachel Allred. These students will move on to the Howard County finals in January.

Alpha Achievers
Please take a moment to congratulate the following young men on their induction into Alpha Achievers organization. This is a tremendous accomplishment for these 15 gentlemen. Spencer Ampofo Robin Jean-Baptiste Abenezer Befikadu Raheem Brown Jas Chung-Campbell Shawn Craig DeVon Groves Josh Smith Darrian Williams Antony Evans Matthew Lumpkin Kyle Moore Gerryle Smith Marc Francis Harry Ndiang

Alpha Achievers

Please take a moment to congratulate the following young men on their induction into Alpha Achievers organization. This is a tremendous accomplishment for these 15 gentlemen.

Spencer Ampofo
Robin Jean-Baptiste
Abenezer Befikadu
Raheem Brown
Jas Chung-Campbell
Shawn Craig
DeVon Groves
Josh Smith
Darrian Williams
Antony Evans
Matthew Lumpkin
Kyle Moore
Gerryle Smith
Marc Francis
Harry Ndiang

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Fine Arts