001Micah James, baseball, basketball, soccer. IHSA award. Cameron Janick, football. [Applause] Reese Gerard, softball IHSA award. Braden Keys, soccer, Grace Klene, Golf IHSA award. Ava Langghands, basketball. Lucy Lightshoe, soccer, volleyball. IHSA award. Riley Matthews, soccer. IHSA award. [Applause] Mia McCanni, cheer IHSA award. Sadi Mets, soccer IHSA award. Lucille Moore, cheer. IHSA award. Harley Rainbolt softball IHSA award. Nathan Ry soccer IHSA award. Sophia Rderick Golf IHSA award. Jack Reutder Scholar Bowl track IHSA award. Emily Rose soccer IHSA award. Ava Schmidt, soccer volleyball IHSA award. Samantha Shmookie, basketball, [Applause] soccer. Jack Shane Tag, baseball. Ellie Shrub Golf IHSA award. Charlie Steckler, basketball golf IHSA [Applause] award. Dalon Stevens, cheer. Allison Tut train golf IHSA award. James Thibo soccer IHSA award. Hayden Ty track IHSA award. Hayes Van Bruigan basketball soccer IHSA award. Ella Van Bruigan, basketball, softball. IHSA
002award. Mason Vegley, baseball, [Applause] football. Reese Wolf, soccer. IHSA award. and Emily Zola Scholar Bowl IHSA award. That's 108 students that we recognize tonight for those accomplishments that they have achieved. Another big round of applause for all of our student athletes. [Applause] Sorry. Now, we have some special athletic awards uh and and people that we would like to recognize. Um after you receive your award, please proceed at that time to the cafeteria for a picture. The first one is our IHSA academic all-state nominees. Each IHSA member school was invited to nominate one female and one male student from their high school to be selected to the 202425 allstate team. Nominees needed to possess a minimum 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 0 scale after their seventh semester and have had participated in at least two IHSA
003sponsored sports or activities during each of the last two years and demonstrate outstanding citizenship. Congratulations to this year's nominees from Columbia High School, Liam Bivvens and Paige Freeze. And a special recognition to Paige Freeze for receiving honorable mention recognition. Come on [Applause] up. Our next award, the St. Louis Post Dispatch Scholar Athlete of the Year. The St. Louis Post Dispatch Scholar Athlete Award honors one senior from every area high school. To be considered a scholar athlete, students must be in the top 25% of the senior class academically and must play at least one varsity sport. The recipient will be recognized at a St. Louis Cardinal baseball game later this season season. This year's St. Louis Post Dispatch Scholar Athlete of the Year for Columbia High School is awarded to L. Van Bruigan. [Applause] Okay, the
004next part of our ceremony, uh, we would now like to recognize the following students who are continuing their athletic career and have signed a letter of intent to play sports at the collegiate level. You can just simply please stand whenever your name is called to be recognized. And I think I have them all. If I miss someone, I apologize. Our first one is Elelliana Ames, volleyball at Frontier College in Fairfield, Illinois. Sam Austinine, softball at Culver Stockton University in Canton, Missouri. Cash Bailey, baseball, Mineral Area College, Park Hills, Missouri. [Applause] Jessica Beerley, soccer at Milikin University in Decar, [Applause] Illinois. Liam Bivvens, soccer at Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, Illinois. [Applause] Sully Benaldi, soccer at Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville. Or is it B? Is it baseball? Soccer or baseball? Soccer or baseball? Soccer. Had me confused.
005I thought it was baseball for a minute. Andrew Collier, baseball at Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, Illinois. [Applause] Sam Donald, basketball, Bellereman University, Louisville, Kentucky. Paige Freeze, softball, Danville Area Community College in Danville, Illinois. Jacob Hall, golf at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. Brady Heminghouse, soccer at Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, Illinois. Riley Matthews, soccer, Indiana State University in Teroot, Indiana. Harley Rainbold, softball at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. Sam Schmookie, basketball at Columbia College in Columbia, [Applause] Missouri. Jack Shane Tag, baseball at Three Rivers Community College in Popular Bluff, Missouri. [Applause] L. Van Bruigan, softball at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Illinois. Hayes Van Bruigan, soccer at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri. and Reese Wolfful, soccer at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, [Applause] Illinois. At this time, I would also like to recognize some milestones
006that a few of our student athletes and coaches have reached during the 202425 school year. Please stand and be recognized. We have some all-state selections. Our first all-state selection for soccer was Hayes Van Bruzigan. We also had a women's basketball third team IBCA allstate recipient Sam Schmookie. We had a men's basketball first team IBCA all state and first team Associated Press Allstate Sam Donald. And we have a girls all state member that we would like to recognize actually from last year because the all-state selections for girls soccer do not come out until after our pencellor banquet. She's sure to be a 25 recipient as well, but we will recognize her for 2024 All State Girls Riley [Applause] Matthews. Some other individual milestones that we would like to recognize. First, our school record for rebounds. A
0071500 plus point scorer, which I think by the end of the year was about 1,950 points, is Sam Donald. Paige Freeze had her 100th hit in softball this year. Jordan Holton during the girls basketball season became second all-time leading scorer in school [Applause] history. Sam Schmookie was a thousand point scorer this [Applause] year. Kyle Chud was a state qualifier in golf. Megan Bullyard, 1,00 career assists in volleyball and second in school history with 1,224 career [Applause] assists. We had a track record that was broke this year. I'm going to probably get the year wrong. I think it was 1989. Uh, has been around since 1989. Chase Hendrick Hendrickson broke the discus school record in track and [Applause] field. Maddie Brandenburgger, she placed 40th in state this year in girls bowling. [Applause] Jacob Hall in boys
008golf tied a school record for the lowest 18hole score with a three under [Applause] 69. We also have a few coaches milestones. Jamie Bridges was the section 12 boys soccer coach of the year and also uh 150th career girls soccer wins. [Applause] Brianna Wbacher earned her 100th win in softball. And Robbie Walters won his fifth state championship in cheer. And we would also like to recognize from our for our team awards this year. Um, as many of you know, our cheer team was the 2025 IHSA small varsity state champs. All of you can stand if you are here. [Applause] We have one final portion of the ceremony left as we wait for our coaches to come up here to the front for our pencil awards. Okay, let's see if we can do this in an
009orderly fashion. When your name is called, no matter where you're sitting, I'm going to have you walk all the way around over to this side so that you can meet your coach in the middle in front of these trophies to receive your pencil reward if your name is called so that mom and dad and everybody can take a picture. And then you will proceed out to the cafeteria for a picture as well. And when we are finished, we would like to get a group photo of all of the pencil awards tonight. So, please do not run away. Can we do that? Awesome. The final portion of tonight's ceremony is recognizing our Gustaf Pencellor award winners. These awards will be presented to each Pencellor winner by our CHS coaches as chosen by our CHS coaches from
010their respective varsity sport. As I stated, please come forward to accept your pencil award as your name is read and then proceed to the cafeteria for a picture. Here we go. Our 202425 pencil award winners for boys cross country, Mr. Brody [Applause] Curtis for girls cross country. Carly Chambers [Applause] You can go out and take a picture if you want. Football. Logan Hicks. [Applause] boys golf. Jacob [Applause] Hall, girls golf. Grace Yurion [Applause] boys soccer. Liam [Applause] Bivvens, volleyball. Megan Bullyard [Applause] Boys basketball. Are you guys scared of me or what? Scoot up. Boys basketball. Sam Donald. [Applause] girls basketball. Sam [Applause] Schmookie, boys bowling. Anthony Hour should be right here. Girls bowling. Maddie Brandenburgger. Cheerleading. Lucy Moore. Scholastic Bowl. Joshua Drooley, [Applause] baseball. Logan Bosch. [Applause] girls soccer. Jessica [Applause] Beerley, softball. L. Van
011Bruigan, boys track. Chase [Applause] Hendrickson and girls track. Hayden Ty. I think they're all still a lot of them are still out in the cafeteria, but always like to give one more round of applause for all of our Pencor Award winners this evening. Congratulations to all of our student athletes on your outstanding accomplishments. Good luck with your future endeavors. Thank you to our coaches for your dedication and the hard work that you put in each and every day to make a difference in the lives of our student athletes. I again just want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. I think we made record time this evening. I'm super excited though and I just want to thank uh Jill again, thank Taylor, everybody that was uh a part of making this happen. I'm just super
012jacked about these new boards and and we've got another one going in down at the multi-purpose field. So, uh things are looking good around here. So, this concludes our our banquet. I really do appreciate you coming out tonight and uh everyone have a safe trip home.