Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Young Achievers program has released the list of top students for each participating elementary and middle school in Fayette County in 2009-2010.

Holifield Photography sponsors Young Achievers in cooperation with the International Leadership Network, a non-profit charitable organization. Students are nominated by a principal, guidance counselor or teacher in the spring of their fourth- or seventh-grade year. The program honors fifth-graders and eighth-graders who are positive role models for their peers and who demonstrate exceptional achievement in a variety of areas, exhibit good citizenship in their schools and communities, and maintain satisfactory records of school attendance and scholastic achievement.

All participating students get an award certificate from the Young Achievers program. Each school winner also receives a Young Achievers gold medallion, T-shirt and book bag.

Following are the 2009-2010 school winners from Fayette County Public Schools.

Fifth graders:

Arlington, Kaitlin Goforth; Ashland, Kayla Alexander; Athens-Chilesburg, Suzanne Faye Seivers; Booker T. Washington Academy, Douglas Bean; Breckinridge, Kiara Tuggle; Cassidy, Olivia Grace St. Peter; Clays Mill, Halle Shannon; Deep Springs, Keira Brayden Clark; Dixie, Mishaela Robison; Garden Springs, Amy Holbrook; Harrison, Tenneh Williams; Julius Marks, Maggie Caroline MacChesney; Lansdowne, Holden Huffman; Liberty, Emily Kathryn Hall; Mary Todd Elementary, Ashley Whittington; Maxwell, Oasya Taylor; Meadowthorpe, Lanier Whitton; Millcreek, Autumn Drury; Northern, Jasmine Segar; Picadome, Eddie Satisky; Rosa Parks Elementary, Elyse Brumfield; Russell Cave, Braeden Warren; Sandersville, Madison Barb; SCAPA Bluegrass, Sydney Mullins; Southern Elementary, Hannah Younger; Squires, Parker Jones; Stonewall, Kalie Estes; Tates Creek Elementary, Nicole Brianna Owens; Veterans Park, Morgan Lakofka; Williams Wells Brown Elementary, Noah Phillips; Yates, Jamera Sharp.

Eighth graders:

Beaumont, Rachel Masterson; Bryan Station Middle, Peyton Ashley Thomas; Crawford, Carlos Villezcas; Edythe J. Hayes, Evan Caldwell; Jessie M. Clark, Katelyn Slavik; Leestown, Vanessa Smith; Lexington Traditional Magnet School, Monisha Rekhraj; Morton, Michael Doyle Whalen; SCAPA Bluegrass, Jane Louise Herbener; Southern Middle, Macy Gabrielle Graham; Tates Creek Middle, Marissa Bastian; Winburn, Urvi Patwardhan.