Class of 2021 - Honors, Awards, and Scholarships
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Francisco Alejandro Junior Abreu Gutierrez
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Micah Joseph Babinski
- Performing Arts/Band Department - Leonard Bernstein Musicianship Award
Diamante C Balcazar
- Salutatorian
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Edna Mae Haworth, Board of Education Scholarship
- Performing Arts/Orchestra Department - National Orchestra award
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Faculty Scholarship - Harvard College
- Start Up Grant - Harvard College
Jonathan Angel Balderas
- Edna Mae Haworth, VR Tech Director's Scholarship
Isaiah J. D. Bernal
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Dalton M Berrington
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Isabella R. D. Britt
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Merit Scholarship - Aquinas College
- Laker Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
Dejaunae Ayesha Broomfield
- Cardinal Commitment - Saginaw Valley State University
Beatriz Campos
- Holland Optimist Club Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
Marvic G Cardenas
- Gallegos Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - LAUP Dream Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Wagner Catholic Scholarship
- Community Foundation - David Wiersma Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
- Dean's Scholarship - Calvin University
- First Generation Award - Calvin University
- Mosaic Award - Calvin University
Connor Lee Carrillo
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
Carly Rose Caudill
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Jess Michael Dunn Dirkse Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Franklin D. Kraai Scholarship
- Eastern Michigan University Scholarship
Olivia Marie Ceithaml
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Mark Van Lare Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Jessie F. Dalman Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- Holland Education Association Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- Performing Arts/Theatre Department - Honor Thespian
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Merit Scholarship - Michigan State University
Xavier Fitzgerald Chavis
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Brian Chiv Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
Leif Keslar Christensen
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Presidential Merit Scholarship - Michigan Technical University
- University Student Scholarship - Michigan Technical University
Marissa Anne Coleman
- Scholarship - State of Michigan
Carlos M Cruz Jr
- Community Foundation - Bernard & Jerene Lemmen Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Karen & Larry Mulder Scholarship
Lucas Drew Dailey
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Health Science Department Award
- Athletic Department - Milton L. Hinga award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Merit Scholarship - Central Michigan University
Alexander J Daniels
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Hope College John Dykema Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Olivia A DeGraaf
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- Athletic Department - Milton L Hinga award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Merit Scholarship - Albion College
Kendal Joy DeVoe
- National Art Honor Society
Delfina Johanna Duron
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Ruth Comstock Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- Upward Bound Program Graduate
- Scholarship - MICAPP
- Mount Holyoke Leadership Award - Mount Holyoke College
Geessiena Soledad Duron
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
- Upward Bound Program Graduate
- Scholarship - MICAPP
- HAIL Scholarship - University of Michigan
Joey Cruz Esparza Jr
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
Diego Alberto Felix-Trejo
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Madison Nicole Fischer
- Performing Arts/Band Department - Woody Herman Jazz Award
- Alumni Honors Scholarship - Hope College
Caleb J Fortune
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Hope College - Dutch to Dutchmen Scholarship
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Giovanni R Garcia
- Family Consumer Science Department Award
Carla Garcia-Caballero
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- Scholarship - Valparaiso University
Brittany Diane Ginger
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- First General Award - Calvin University
- Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
Jewlian M Gonzalez
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
John T Gordon
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Rachel Lauren Haworth
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Seth D Hidalgo
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
Dat Quoc Ho
- Michigan Department of Education-Seal of Biliteracy, Vietnamese/English
Zachary David Hoekstra
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Kylie Marie Horn
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Family Consumer Science Department Award
Gabrielle R Hosta
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
Matthew P Huizinga
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Ryan Matthew Jablonski
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Department Scholarship - Michigan Technological University
- School Scholarship - Michigan Technological University
Nazim Farid Jafarov
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Michigan Department of Education-Seal of Biliteracy, Russian/English
- Community Foundation - W. L. Dream Scholarship
Nolan William Lee Jansma
- Military Honor & Commitment, U.S. Marine Corp
Kierstyn Lynn Jewell
- Performing Arts/Choir Department - Choir Service award
Clayton Derek Kammeraad Jr
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Jason Todd Kamphuis
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Math Department - Mary Butler Outstanding Math Scholarship
- Science Department award
- Performing Arts/Band Department - Patrick S. Gilmore Band Award
- First Generation Award - Calvin University
- Trustee's Scholarship - Calvin University
- Music Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
- Presidential Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
Camby Aliya Ket
- Performing Arts/Choir Department - Kerry & Diane Daab Vocal Music award
Cameron J Koberna
- Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
Alisha Vanny Kun
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
Charlotte A Lance
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
Madeline Elizabeth Lepard
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Merit Scholarship - Miami University
Seth Michael Leveque
- Performing Arts/Band Department - National School Marching Award
Emily T Logan
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Jaden Elizabeth Long
- Performing Arts/Choir Department - Kerry & Diane Daab Vocal Music award
Carter Dean Lynch
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Gold & Maroon Scholarship - Central Michigan University
Delaney Belle Lynch
- #1 Class Rank 2022, Early Graduate
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Performing Arts/Theatre Department - Honor Thespian
- Performing Arts/Theatre Department - Excellence in Theatre
- Presidential Scholarship - Elon University
- Theatre Scholarship - Elon University
Ilkin Nijat Mardanov
- Michigan Department of Education-Seal of Biliteracy, Russian/English
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Alexander Thomas Marko Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- MHSAA Scholar Athlete
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Presidential Scholarship - Kettering University
- Honors College Scholarship - Kettering University
Easton Jade Marroquin-Mendoza
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Brisa Martinez Contreras
- Careerline Tech Center, CTC PR-Public Safety Community Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- Michigan Department of Education - Seal of Biliteracy, Spanish/English
Confiance Mbuyu
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Lakeshore Dental Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Neydon Children of Widows
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- Trendway/George & Lucile Herringa Community Scholarship
- Breaking Tradition Award - State of Michigan
Leah Barbara Meppelink
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Edna Mae Haworth, Holland High School Principal Scholarship
Joy Angeline Miller
- Performing Arts/Choir Department - National School Choral Award
William J Morrison
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Dean Scholarship - College of Wooster
- Presidential Scholarship - Hope College
Abigail MacKena Mulder
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Gold Scholarship - Wayne State University
Felecia Navarro
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Faculty's Scholarship - Calvin University
- First Generation Award - Calvin University
- Mosaic Award - Calvin University
Steve Baotuan Nguyen
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Holland/Zeeland Promise Scholarship
- Holland Junior Rotary Participant
- MHSAA Scholar Athlete
- National Honor Society
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Trustee's Scholarship - Calvin University
- First Generation Award - Calvin University
- Mosaic Award - Calvin University
- Merit Scholarship - University of Michigan
- Merit Scholarship - Tulane University
- Presidential Scholarship - Kenyon College
- Presidential Scholarship - Rochester Institute of Technology
Owen W Nyenhuis
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Edna Mae Haworth, Mary Butler Math Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- Scholarship - Central Michigan University
- Scholarship - Eastern Michigan University
- Scholarship - Hope College
- Scholarship - Michigan State University
- HAIL Scholarship - University of Michigan
- Medallion Scholarship - Western Michigan University
Jackelyn Palmas
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Brooks Family First Generation Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
- Dean's Scholarship - Calvin University
- First Generartion Award - Calvin University
- Mosaic Award - Calvin University
Melissa Parra
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Upward Bound Program Graduate
Ashley Lizeth Pedraza
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Destinee Aliyah Phasoukvong
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Holland/Zeeland Promise Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
- President's Scholarship - Calvin University
- First Generation Award - Calvin Unversity
- Mosaic Award - Calvin University
- Heritage Award - Hope College
- Covenant Leadership Award - Hope College
Keith Pike
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Aaliyah Pinela Escalera
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Caitlyn Sue Prins
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Performing Arts/Band Department - Director's Award for Band
Tyler Jackson Punch
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- National Art Honor Society
- Art Department - District Art Award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Guadalupe Alin Quinones
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Jordan Paige Ramirez
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Haworth Scholarship
- Dekko Scholarship
Angelica Yadira Ramos Martinez
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
Kira Jenisa Rendon
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
Antonio Demetrion Robinson
- Community Foundation - Kaminski Family Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Alice O. Rydell Interior Design Scholarship
Carlie Marie Rozema
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Performing Arts/Orchestra Department - Conductor's award
- President's Scholarship - Calvin University
Charlotte Rose Ruiter
- Valedictorian
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- English Department - Sharon Rocker Excellence in English Award
- MHSAA Scholar Athlete
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Lux Esto Scholarship - Kalamazoo College
- Mandelle Award - Kalamazoo College
- Michigan Competitive Scholarship - State of Michigan
Angel Marie Ruiz
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Brooks Family First Generation Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Holland/Zeeland Promise Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- Upward Bound Program Graduate
- Performing Arts/Band Department - Director's Award for Band
- Lux Esto Scholarship - Kalamazoo College
- John Theophilus Williamson Award - Kalamazoo College
Ava Leticia Ryzenga
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Isabella Malia Salazar
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Jack & Thelma Leenhouts Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Donald & Lileeth Brouwer VanArk Scholarship
- Performing Arts/Choir Department - Choir Service award
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
Emanuel Sanchez
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Nicholas Trey Santellan
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
Lillian Grace Sharp
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Helton Family Scholarship
- Community Foundation - University of Michigan Club of Holland Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Scholarship - University of Michigan
Jayden M Sisson
- Performing Arts/Band Department - John Philip Sousa Award
Aaliyah Isabel Smith
- Health Science Department Award
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- O.K. Conference Athlete of the Year
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Athletic Scholarship - Delta College
Mallory A Sneller
- Merit Scholarship - Lake Michigan College
Samantha Tapia Silva
- Upward Bound Program Graduate
Caitlyn E Tietema
- Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
Garret Wallace Tinney
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- Performing Arts/Theatre Department - Honor Thespian
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Kyle D Torres
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
William Torres
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Tyrese John Turner
- Dean's Scholarship - Michigan State University
Sierra Autumn Tye
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Logan Michael Van Dine
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Neil Robert Van Faasen
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- MHSAA Scholar Athlete
- O.K. Conference Athlete of the Year
- Dwayne "Tiger" Teusink Tennis Scholarship
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
Ian W. E. Van Kula
- Performing Arts/Band Department - Louis Armstrong Jazz Award
Daniel John Van Ravenswaay
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Laker Scholarship - Grand Valley State University
Selena G Vazquez
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- Community Foundation - Holland/Zeeland Promise Scholarship
- Ferris State University - Promesa Summer Program Participant
- First Generation Award - Calvin University
- National Honor Society
- President's Scholarship - Calvin University
- Mosaic Award - Calvin University
- Holland/Zeeland Promise Scholarship - Hope College
Orryan James Ver Burg
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
Savannah Sky Vigil
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Edna Mae Haworth, Holland Early College Scholarship
- National Honor Society
Cleo Ann Vollstedt
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
Anton Gregory Voss
- Michigan Department of Education-Seal of Biliteracy, Ukrainian/English
Teagan J Wade
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Rachael Pfeiffer Scholarship
- Community Foundation - Shelley Speet Mills Creative Arts Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- National Art Honor Society
Brooke Marie Wehrmeyer
- Excellence Award - Saint Leo University
- Saint Leo Scholarship - Saint Leo University
Angesom Kidane Welday
- Michigan Department of Education-Seal of Biliteracy, Tigrinya/English
Noah Allyn E Whiteman
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Military Honor & Commitment, U.S. Army ROTC
- National Honor Society
- Athletic Department - Senior Athlete award
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Athletic Department - HHS Distinguished Athlete
- Provost's Scholarship - Calvin University
- ROTC Scholarship - Olivet Nazarene University
Isabella Milan Williams
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Merit Scholarship - Northern Michigan University
- Webster Scholarship - Northern Michigan University
Justin D Wolters
- Gold Honor Cord Recipient
- Edna Mae Haworth, Superintendent of Schools Scholarship
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- President's Honors Scholarship - Trinity Christian College
- Benjamin H Van Andel Scholarship - Trinity Christian College
- Peer Ministry Leadership - Trinity Christian College
- DeJong Funded - Trinity Christian College
Samuel Morgan Wolthuis
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
Gregory Woods III
- Red/White Honor Cord Recipient
- National Honor Society
- O.K. Conference Scholar Athlete
- Youth of the Year Finalist - Boys & Girls Club
- Covenant Scholarship - Hope College