Saint Thomas Academy Honors Top Students with Eagle Award

Editor's note: The following is a press release from Saint Thomas Academy.

Saint Thomas Academy announced today the recipients of the Eagle Award, recognizing students who had an annual cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.67 in the 2011-2012 school year. The Eagle Award ceremony was held on Monday, Sept. 17. The 2011-12 Eagle Award recipients include (please note that the listed grade reflects students’ 2012-13 grade):

8th Grade
Joseph Boyle, Saint Paul
Samuel Edgerton, Saint Paul
Patrick Garry, Eagan
John Houge, Saint Paul
Marko Jurkovich, Saint Paul
Devin Kennedy, Woodbury
Daniel Lee, Saint Paul
Michael Najarian, Stillwater
Michael Newcome, Saint Paul
William Treacy, Saint Paul
Erik Vick, Stillwater
Peter Wicks, Hugo

9th Grade
Nicholas Brzezinski, Eagan
Branden Chamberlain, Eagan
John Colleran, Bloomington
Garrett Coss, Inver Grove Heights
William Dietz, North Oaks
Christopher Gitter, Mendota Heights
Joseph Harvey, Minneapolis
Evan Hiew, Mendota Heights
Brendan Hobbs, Eagan
Charles Hubbell III, West Saint Paul
Samuel Mara, Savage
Sean McFadden, Sunfish Lake
Matthew Mikolajczak, Lakeville
Chase Nielsen, Lake Elmo
Hunter Nielsen, Lake Elmo
Connor Peltier, Hastings
Michael Rudisill, Woodbury
Eric Ruzicka, Apple Valley
Thomas Weiss, Saint Paul
Michael Woodward, Prior Lake

10th Grade
Colin Berg, Stillwater
Grant Bowersox, Saint Mary’s Point
George Brenzel, Saint Paul
Patrick Buethe, Saint Paul
Christian Buonfiglio, Bloomington
James Butler, Minneapolis
John Caspers, Bloomington
Nicholas Caspers, Bloomington
Kevin Clancy, Saint Louis Park
Nicholas Coleman, Woodbury
Ryan Conley, Minneapolis
Peter Cunniff, Saint Paul
Collin Dobie, Saint Paul
John Dolan, Sunfish Lake
Colten Dornbach, Webster
Griffin Dufek, Eagan
Connor Duffy, Chanhassen
Liam Earley, Minneapolis
Andrew Floeder, Saint Paul
Charles Hallett, Edina
Charles Hamilton, White Bear Township
Samuel Hank, Burnsville
Joseph Harrington, Mendota Heights
Louis Holtz, Minneapolis
Colton Johnson, Stillwater
Nathan Keller, Edina
Christopher Kettler, Mendota Heights
Connor Knapp, Minneapolis
Kevin Malecha, Mendota Heights
Andrew Mayleben, Edina
Mason McGrath, Mahtomedi
Nicholas Michalik, Saint Paul
Matthew Michalski Jr, Saint Paul
Brian Miller, Edina
Michael Miller, Sunfish Lake
Sean Moakley, Eden Prairie
Bryce Montgomery, Saint Paul
Nicholas Morreale, Lake Elmo
Jonathan Najarian, Stillwater
Wade Olson, Chisago City
Michael Peters, Woodbury
Austin Petronack, Woodbury
Nicholas Polaczyk, Inver Grove Heights
Jake Pursley, Mendota Heights
William Ramsey, Saint Paul
Joseph Riehm, Stillwater
Gabriel Rojas-Westall, Inver Grove Heights
Macalaster Schmidt, Inver Grove Heights
Aaron Schwietz, Mendota Heights
Connor Shea, Eagan
Jack Sorenson, West Saint Paul
Samuel Supplee, Eagan
Carter Swedal, Rosemount
Joshua Tarum, Eagan
Renner Thomas, Saint Paul
Joseph Waldvogel, Mendota Heights
Nicholas Walsh, Saint Paul
Branick Weix, Saint Paul
Stephen Westerback, Rosemount
Jacob Wright, West Saint Paul

11th Grade
John Anderson, Eagan
Jesse Benedict, Minnetonka
John Bruno, Mendota Heights
Omar Cano, Rosemount
Brock Carlson, Lake Elmo
Robert D'Agostino, Woodbury
Charles Elliott, Mendota Heights
Joseph Evanoff, Roseville
Jack Flynn, Apple Valley
Murphy Galligan, Apple Valley
Nicholas Griffin, Eden Prairie
Grant Grojean, Mendota Heights
Chad Hanson, Mendota Heights
John Harper IV, Edina
Bennett Hickey, Eagan
Thomas Hopkinson, Saint Paul
Christopher Huberty, Saint Paul
Charles Johnson, Inver Grove Heights
Reed Kaeppe, Cottage Grove
Thomas Kane, Eagan
Ian Kies, Saint Paul
Constantinos Koumontzis, Edina
Thomas Lamb, Inver Grove Heights
Christian Lasswell, Eagan
Walker Lee, Saint Paul
Zachary Litwin, Minneapolis
Peter James Mark, Minneapolis
John Neuberger, Edina
Ian Nichols, Eagan
Grant Oncay, Wayzata
Connor Plunkett, Minneapolis
James Riley III, Apple Valley
Samuel Rudisill, Woodbury
John Ryan, Eden Prairie
Grayson Sanford, Minneapolis
Robert Scarrella, Woodbury
Joseph Schultz, Mendota Heights
Vincent Ternes, Pine Springs
Robert Thompson III, Inver Grove Heights
John Wallner, Inver Grove Heights
Jacob Wankel, New Hope
Adam Weintraut, Mendota Heights
Andrew Zobel, Saint Paul

12th Grade
Philip Allessi, Stillwater
Kelton Anderson, Lakeville
Andrew Applebaum, Mendota Heights
Daniel Baer, Edina
Chase Bockstruck, Mendota Heights
Connor Bonk, Mendota Heights
Killian Brackey, Edina
William Chapman, Saint Paul
Thomas Conley, Minneapolis
Daniel Conway, Mendota Heights
Thomas D'Agostino, Woodbury                          
Zachary Desmond, Eagan
Logan Dufek, Eagan
Graham Earley, Minneapolis
William Fenelon, Saint Paul
Henry Hart, Stillwater
Patrick Hegdahl, Saint Paul
Shane Jann, Eagan
Seamus Kelly, Saint Paul
Benjamin Kern, Lakeville
Sean Kilgarriff, Eagan
Colin Knoedler, North Oaks
Kyle Kortebein, Edina
Andrew Laird, Saint Paul
John Lamb, Inver Grove Heights
Joseph Maher, Mendota Heights
William Mansur, Mendota Heights
Patrick McFadden, Sunfish Lake
Trevor McHugh, Mendota Heights
Maxwell Mussell, Mendota Heights
Mitchell Newburg, Farmington
Alexander Noel, Stillwater
Elliot Polsky, Burnsville
Kevin Riehm, Stillwater
Timothy Smith, Saint Paul
Anthony Stark, Inver Grove Heights
Nicholas Waldvogel, Mendota Heights
Michael Wenger, Saint Paul
Patrick Wenger, Saint Paul
William Whitney, Dellwood
Robert Wolfe, Saint Paul


About Saint Thomas Academy
Founded in 1885, Saint Thomas Academy is an all-male, college preparatory, Catholic, military/leadership school committed to preparing young men to succeed in college and in life. Nationally accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States (ISACS), the academy challenges young men to excel academically, spiritually, morally and physically in and out of the classroom.  For more information, please visit www.cadets.com.