2011 - 2012 Awards & Highlights

Finalists in the 2012 Competition for National Merit Scholarships

Collette Berg

Elizabeth Eagle

Elaina Weber

Finalists in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program

Kellie Brue

DTE Solar Panel Roof at Mercy

Mercy High School is the first private high school to participate in SolarCurrents and houses the largest roof mounted facility in the state of Michigan. The 400-kilowatt, $2.5 million photovoltaic system installed uses 125,000 square feet of roof on the high school. The solar array will be owned, installed, operated and maintained by DTE Energy. Read more here.

POET MASTERS

Congratulations to seniors MONICA SHAMMAS and SHANNON LEMMER who were just named winners in this year's poetry writing contest sponsored by the LIVE POETS SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY. Both students will have their work published in that group's annual anthology.

Teacher Feature

Lynn Waldsmith who teaches English, Journalism, and is the NEWSPRINT student paper Adviser was featured in the quarterly publication entitled STET that is produced by the Michigan Inter Scholastic Press Association. It is a wonderful Q and A that details Lynn's background, her expertise, and the wonderful work she does with Mercy ournalism students. CLICK HERE to read.

COACH OF THE YEAR

Way to go Mercy Swim and Dive Coach Shannon Dunworth. He received two very notable recognitions: MISCA Division I Swim Coach of the Year and 2011 NFHS Coaches Association National Coach of the Year!!

Maddy Doyle Gatorade Player of the Year

The awards just keep coming for volleyball standout Maddy Doyle '12. In its 27th year of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with ESPNHS, announced Maddy as its 2011-12 Gatorade Michigan Volleyball Player of the Year. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the court, distinguishes her as Michigan's best high school volleyball player. She is also now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Volleyball Player of the Year award announced later in December. The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by ESPNHS and the Gatorade high school sports leadership team, which work with top sport-specific experts and a media advisory board of accomplished, veteran prep sports journalists to determine the state winners in each sport. As part of Maddy's honor, The Gatorade Company will send a trophy and banner within the next few weeks to Mercy High School to be formally presented to Maddy. Congratulations to Maddy, all the coaches and the entire vollebyall team! Mercy is so proud of you!

SWIMMING & DIVING MHSAA DIVISION 1 STATE CHAMPIONS!

WOW, THEY DID IT AGAIN! FIVE State Championships in a row for the outstanding Mercy Swimming and Diving Team. Go Mercy!

STUDENT SUCCESSES . . . APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!

Congratulations to Katelyn Kulesa and Audrey Cords who won two of the three monetary prizes offered in the Richard Benvenuto Poetry Competition sponsored by Center for Poetry at Michigan State University. These girls were honored at a reception in Lansing and given their awards by the contest's judge, Michigan poet, Jack Ridl.

Freshwomen Gina Mazziotti, Anna Julien, and Elon Pendleton were invited to be part of the Michigan School Vocal Music Association's STATE Middle School Honor Choir and will join other singers from the state of Michigan for a performance at the Michigan Music Educator's Conference in Grand Rapids in January.

The newly elected officers for the Class of 2015 are: President Taylor Babcock; Vice President Julia Swoish; Secretary Abby Rosler; Treasurer Julia McAree; Class Rep Anna Kiafoulis.

SO MANY SIGNINGS!

There are a number of athletes who are in the process of signing or have recently signed National Letters of Intent to play a sport in college. Congrats to these MERCY MARLINS:

Meghan Cleary - VOLLEYBALL at Northwood University

Maddy Doyle - VOLLEYBALL at George Washington University, DC

Kayce Nieto - SOFTBALL at University of Utah

Emily Orrico - DIVING at the University of Michigan

Semifinalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Competition

Seniors Colette Berg, Elizabeth Eagle, and Elaina Weber were named Semifinalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Competition. These academically talented seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition to earn a Merit Scholar title. About 1.5 million juniors in some 22,000 high schools entered the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT). The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, which represents less than one percent of US high school seniors, includes the highest scoring entrants in each state. To become a Finalist, a Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by the high school principal, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2012 will be announced beginning in April. Good luck, girls!

Commended Students in the 2012 National Merit Program

Senior Ellen Lezotte was named a Commended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. Commended Students are recognized for the expetional academic promise demonstrated by their outstanding performance on the 2010 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) and place among the top five percent.

Semifinalists in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program

Seniors Kellie Brue and Imani Gunn were named Semifinalists in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship program, an academic competition for Black American high school students. Some 160,000 high school juniors who took the PSAT/National Merit Test last year requested consideration in this achivement program and of that number only 10% were selected.They may continue to compete for Finalist status and the possibliity of earning an achievement scholarship.

Outstanding Participants in the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program

Cherima Chungag and Mimi Norwood were named Outstanding Participants in the 2012 National Achivement Scholarship Program, an academic competition for Black American high school students who took the PSAT/National Merit Test as juniors last year. These girls scored in the top 3% of more than 160,000 students. Their names are sent to 1,500 colleges and universities across teh country in recognition of their academic success.

AP SCHOLARS - 2011

129 students took 165 AP exams in May 2011. Highlights: English Lit & Comp: 88% scored 3 or better; U.S. Gov't & Politics: 91% scored 3 or better; U.S. History: 50% scored 4 or better; Macroeconomics 100% scored a 4. We salute these girls who have earned the honorary distinction of AP SCHOLAR in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the AP Exams.