05/20/2026
🏆 Culleoka High School Awards Day Celebration
Culleoka High School proudly recognized the hard work, academic achievement, leadership, creativity, and dedication of our students during Awards Day! Congratulations to all of the students honored for their outstanding accomplishments this school year.
🔵 English I &II
• Highest Grade in English I: Molly Kelley
• Second Highest Grade in English I: Clara Buerger & Luke Kaspar
• Highest Grade in English II: Hayden Looper
• Second Highest Grade in English II: Teagan Zerweck & Aden Donnelly
• 9th Grade Quill Champion: Molly Kelley
• 10th Grade Quill Champion: Aden Donnelly
• Best Book Talk Presentation: Eli Morris
• Highest 2025 TCAP EOC Score (Current 9th Grade): Luke Kaspar
• Highest 2025 TCAP EOC Score (Current 10th Grade): Skyler Johnson
• Highest 2025 TCAP EOC Score (Current 11th Grade): Cullen Cheatham
🔵 English III
Top Average Awards:
• 1st Period: Jason Lovett & Victoria Mei
• 3rd Period: Mayra Canas Torres & Aden Scott
• 4th Period: Annabelle Wagoner & Deaken Carson
• Exceptional Critical Thinker Award: Kannon Cheatham
• Excellence in Discussion Award: Makayla Mitchell
• Most Distracted Genius Award: Dimitri Ostrander
• Top Quill Performers: Savannah Butler, Josie Hanes, Ethan Gutierrez
Additional Honors:
• Aden Scott – Top Boy in the Junior Class
• Annabelle Wagoner – Top Girl in the Junior Class
🔵 Journalism I-IV/Yearbook
•Silver Level Award for the Jostens Yearbook Program of Excellence: Logan Martin, Isis Graiger, Landon Ervin, Ava Tyler, Michaela Mitchell, Chayce Ketchum, Riley Jones, Elizabeth Cottrell, & Skyler Johnson
🔵 Art History
•Art History Excellence Award: Estephania Cruz-Rivera
🔵 AP Human Geography
• Excellence Award: Cora Fowler
• Highest Average: Clara Buerger & Molly Kelley
• AP Human Geography Recognition: Marlett Andrews-Margason, Payson Barnhill, Clara Buerger, Cora Fowler, Luke Kaspar, Molly Kelley, Conner Pewitt, Catherine Randolph, Caleb Reed, Celine Resendiz, Talitha Shelton, & Brilynn Walker
🔵 SDC American History
• Excellence Awards: Madison James, Ethan Haddock, & Julian Strahan
• Highest Average Award: Mac Putnam
🔵Geometry
• Geometry Awards: Teagan Zerweck, Hayden Looper, Ashton Rubert, & Madison James
🔵 Spanish
• Highest Grade Average Spanish 2: McKinley Putnam & Valeria Aldaba Castro
• Highest Grade Average Spanish 1: Hayden Looper & Gabe Carroll
• Spanish Grammar Detective Spanish 2: Cullen Cheatham & Aden Scott
• Spanish Grammar Detective Spanish 1: Teagan Zerweck & Ashton Rubert
🔵 APAA Psychology: Maylin Diaz Villanueva
🔵 Algebra I
Highest Averages (Hardaway): Easton Johns (1st Block), Daniela Castillo (2nd Block), Molly Kelley (3rd Block)
• Most Improved (Hardaway): Kaleigh Santiago
• Highest Average in Algebra I (Haislip): Caleb Reed
🔵 Science
• Physics: John Hunter & Lilly Cothram
• Chemistry 5th Period: Cullen Cheatham & McKinley Putnam
• Chemistry 6th Period: Aden Scott, Bella Venere, Emma Davidson, & Madison James
🔵 Lifetime Wellness & PE
• 100 Average in Lifetime Wellness: Lindsey Potts, Aiden Strahan, Nicholas Wray, Luke Kaspar, McKenzie Gibson, Molly Kelley, Cora Fowler, Harper Morphew, & Lexi McKennon
• Year Long PE Achievement: Annabelle Wagoner & Mayra Canas Torres
🔵 ELL High School
• Most Improved Communicator: Miguel Garcia
• Multilingual Excellence Award: Valeria Aldaba Castro
🔵 Computer Science & Math
• Excellence in Coding for Computer Science: Cameron Stumbo & Coltin Butler
• Academic Excellence in Algebra 2: Mayra Canas Torres, Rylin Gibson, Sam Jones, Aden Donnelly, & Victoria Mei
🔵 Health Science
• Founding Member Recognition – CUS Decomposition Analysis Team (Dead Chicken Club): Savannah Butler, Adalyn Robertson, & Paiton Stephens
• Most Likely to Save a Life Award: Kaylee Clark & William Randolph
• Integrity & Compassion Leadership Award: Shelby Whitt
🔵 Agriculture
• 1st Period Agriscience Highest Average: Ciara Ambrose & Nathan Hunter
• 6th Period Agriscience Highest Average: Augustus Demastus
• 7th Period Agriscience Highest Average: Lexi McKennon
• Small Animal Science Highest Average: Skylar Johnson
• Large Animal Science Highest Average: Madison James
• Landscaping & Turf Science Highest Average: Jason Lovett
🔵 Welding
• The Innovator’s Torch Award: Hayden Looper
• The Iron Hand Award: Logan Blade
• The Master Craftsman Award: Jason Lovett & Kannon Cheatham
• The Rising Steel Award: Evelyn Cruz-Rivera
• The Blueprint of Excellence Award: Phynlee Keeling
🔵 Biology Awards: Molly Kelley, Clara Buerger, Cora Fowler, Aden Donnelly, and Rylin Gibson
🔵 Business & Entrepreneurship Awards
• Introduction to Business Highest Average: Karleigh Peden, Brady Fuller, Cailey Oliver, and Caleb Reed
• Introduction to Entrepreneurship Highest Average: Lindsey Pigue, Kaiden Munn, Cesar Najera Diaz, and Kaylee Donnelly
• Dual Enrollment Accounting I Highest Average: Sam Jones
• SDC Introduction to Business Highest Average: Layla Davis
Congratulations to all of our award recipients for representing Culleoka Unit School with excellence, determination, and Warrior pride!