Senior Awards

St. Pius X Scholar-Athletes of the Year

Athletes of the Year

The recipients excel equally in both academics and athletics. The requirement for this award includes being an honor student (3.75 GPA and above) and a varsity multi-sport athlete or year-round varsity athlete of exceptional leadership and performance.

Danny McKay Memorial Manager of the Year

Anisa Valdez

Volleyball

The recipients demonstrate the highest skills, leadership, teamwork, coachability, and work ethics in all sports. For this award, the athlete must compete at the highest level of competition.

Outstanding Student Athletic Trainer of the Year

Lily Chacon

The award is given to a team manager who played an integral role within a team, honoring the character and work ethic of Danny McKay.

Native American Leadership Award

Abrianna Notah-Johnson Bethany Padilla

The SPX Native American Leadership Award is given to Native American students who meet the following criteria: he or she must be a senior in good standing, must be an active participant in the SPX Native American Club, and must demonstrate leadership in both school and community.

Primo Contreras Award

Bethany Padilla

The Primo Contreras Award is given to students who have demonstrated joy in serving others on campus as well as outside our school community, a love of St. Pius X High School, and exemplary character. This year the Theology Department has selected Bethany Padilla, who they feel represents these qualities.

The award is given to the student who most represents what the Sports Medicine Program is all about and is selected by the Athletic Trainer.

West Point Leadership Award

Maricia Marquez

Each year, during Junior year, students are nominated and five are selected to attend the West Point Leadership Luncheon. At the luncheon, the students are interviewed by West Point Alumni who then select one student as the West Point Leadership Winner.

National Merit Commended Scholar

Mark Stotzer

The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and scholarships that began in 1955. Approximately 1.5 million high school students enter the program each year. National Merit Commended Scholars are selected by The College Board. Students must score in the top 3% out of the country’s brightest seniors on the PSAT.

St. Pius X Top Ten Percent of the Class of 2023

Mark Stotzer

Valedictorian

Angelina Blackledge

Colette Correa-Bruzzese

Brian Kalb

William Klein

Maricia Marquez

Adam Goodyear Salutatorian

Cohen Mulville

Malachi Pena

Gabriella Perea

Meghan Stone

Erica White

French Awards - Le Grand Concours

National Honor Society Officers

National French Exam Level II

Rosana

Every year, the American Association of Teachers of French sponsors a national French exam, Le Grand Concours. A total of 43,752 students took this exam across 7 levels, ranging from elementary & middle school through French V/AP French.

Marcita

Marek Award

Marisol Valdez

This award was established to recognize Marcita Marek’s interest in promoting peer education and involvement in the athletic programs at St. Pius X. This yearly award is given to a young lady who embodies the qualities of athletic leadership and service that Marcita Marek valued.

Manuel Lujan Scholarship

Jude Jenkins

The Manuel Lujan Scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior who has a minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA and is planning to attend a New Mexico four-year college or university.

Head of School’s Recognition Award

Angelina Blackledge

Renaissance Award

Gabriel Garcia

The Renaissance Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Fine Arts department. Each year, the Fine Arts faculty selects a student who has excelled in multiple areas of the Visual and Performing Arts to receive this prestigious award.

NHS members strive to exemplify the qualities found in our school’s motto of, “goodness, discipline and knowledge” and we would like to commend the 2022-2023 officers for their leadership.

Senior

Colette Correa-Bruzzese

Nicholas Bole

It is a tradition at St. Pius X for seniors to choose a young man and a young woman to represent the “best of their class.” They are asked to consider the following qualities in nominating a peer from their class who represents the all-around ideal St. Pius X student: intellectual integrity, respect and caring for his or her peers, sensitivity, congeniality, and leadership. The seniors are asked to vote for the two students whom they most respect and admire as good people and as good Christians.

Excellence in Social Studies Award

Colette Correa-Bruzzese

William Klein

In choosing a recipient for the Social Studies Department’s Excellence in Social Studies Award, the department looks for students who have excelled in the social studies program and exhibited a passion for history and government.

Outstanding Graduate

Colette Correa-Bruzzese

The Head of School’s Recognition Award recognizes a student who has demonstrated exemplary leadership in the school community and campus ministry activities, and has grown as a person academically, spiritually, and in their love for St. Pius X High School. Character development is the quality sought as well as integrity and leadership in his or her own way.

The Outstanding Graduate is selected by the faculty. Using the motto of St. Pius X, “Teach me goodness, discipline and knowledge,” the faculty looks for a student whose life truly embodies these traits. Faculty select the recipient of this award through a voting process. Teachers agonize over their vote and find it difficult to select just one outstanding graduate.