ROCKHURST RECAP Co-Curriculars Academics Community Service

• Four seniors were selected as National Merit Finalists; eight were selected as National Merit Commended Students

• Thirty-six seniors earned AP Scholar designation (eight with Honor, six with Distinction)

• Four seniors were selected as recipients of Hispanic Development Fund College Scholarships

• Five swimmers/divers were named Academic All-Americans; 14 football players were named to the Academic All-State Team; five cross country runners were named to the Academic All-State Team; four soccer players were named Academic All-State (average of 4.0 GPA and 30 ACT)

• Three Speech & Debate Team members were named Academic All-Americans

• Five students were members of the winning team of Burns & McDonnell’s Innovation and Problem Solving Pitch Event

• Ryan Thompson ’22 was selected as the Kansas City Star’s top boys Scholar-Athlete

• Robotics Team won the Central Missouri Regional Competition and qualified for the World Championships in Houston

• Speech & Debate had six State qualifiers and three were top4 individuals at State, including Lincoln-Douglas State Champion Isaiah Moncrieffe ’22

• Seven Speech & Debate Team members competed at Nationals and five earned out-round performances

• Eighteen musicians earned Exemplary 1 Ratings at the District Music Contest and performed at the State Music Contest

• Seven musicians were selected to one of the KC Metro District Music Ensembles; three were selected to All-State Ensembles

• Zach Gamble ’22 will be attending the prestigious Seaver College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Pepperdine University on a full-ride scholarship for his guitar abilities.

• Three seniors were selected as finalists for the Arts Council of Johnson County

• Coding Team won the Beginners Divisions of the K-State Computer Science’s Programming Contest

• Newly-reactivated Scholar Bowl Team placed 2nd at the District Competition

• Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) attended the National Leadership Conference in Milwaukee; Collin Murphy ’22 won FBLA Districts in Business Law and advanced to the State Competition

• Model UN Team Team won Outstanding Delegation at the Arkansas Model UN Conference

• Mock Trial Team was one of 18 across Missouri to qualify for the State Championship

• Seniors continued the 50-year tradition of Senior Service Projects, volunteering for three weeks at one of 48 local agencies

• Twelve students participated in the ministry of St. Joseph of Arimathea Society, helping lay to rest 120 men and women with no known family or friends (page 31)

• All freshmen participated in two Freshman Day For Others service projects

• Twenty-eight students spent two weeks of their summer break volunteering on Total Ignatian Experience (T.I.E.) Tennessee, working with Habitat for Humanity Appalachia

• Annual Harvest Food Drive raised 12,000 canned goods

• Sixteen students traveled to Washington, D.C. for the 49th annual March For Life, the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world

• Human Dignity Club and the Culinary Club made Valentine’s Day treats and delivered them to the Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House

• Hurtado Scholars volunteered at Cherith Brook Catholic Worker House, making 150 sandwiches for distribution and helping with projects at the center