Congratulations to Green Valley's Jason Singh and Kristen Hsu
Jason and Kristen were selected as the 2011 winners of the Harvard Prize Book Award by the Harvard Club of Nevada.
Green Valley High School's Forensics TeamGreen Valley High School's Forensics Team captured first place at their national qualifying tournament. In the process of taking 1st place, the ForensiGators qualified 15 students for the national tournament in Dallas, Texas, June 13-18. The qualifiers include Soona Amhaz, Original Oratory; Matt Dietz and Jadon Montero, International Extemporaneous Speaking; Jason Singh, Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking; Darius Bravo, Dramatic Interpretation; Sara Teferi & Daniel Coffey and Casey Rosenberg & Ariel Higuchi, Duo Interpretation; Sam Shields and Harry Garrett, Policy Debate; Ashley Roberts & Ellia Higuchi, Public Forum Debate; Jordy Barry and Jeremy Chen, Congressional Debate. Green Valley's forensic team has qualified students for the national tournament every year since 1994. The Green Valley Forensics Team won its 11th Nevada State Championship
Also placing at the state tournament for the Green Valley ForensiGators are the following students: Joy Durkin, 5th in Humorous Interpretation; John Lanuti, 3rd in Humorous Interpretation; Soona Amhaz, 2nd in Original Oratory; Miu Suzuki, 2nd in Expository; Reed McGinley-Stempel, 3rd in Domestic Extemporaneous; Daniel Coffey & Sarah Teferi, 2nd in Duo Interpretation; Daniel Coffey, 3rd in Dramatic Interpretation; Soona Amhaz & Sam Shields, 3rd in Policy Debate; Miu Suzuki, 5th in Congressional Debate; John Lanuti, 2nd in Congressional Debate, and Jason Singh, 3rd, Congressional Debate. Since its first state title in 1997, this is the 11 state championship in 15 years. GREEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EARN HIGHEST RANK IN NATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUEJadon Montero, Jason Singh, Dylan Kama, Jordy Barry, Daniel Coffey, and Reed McGinley-Stempel from Green Valley High School, NV, have earned the National Forensic League’s degree of Premier Distinction, the highest student degree in the honor society. A degree of Premier Distinction reflects sustained excellence in classroom activities, competition rounds and service projects. Students may earn points in six separate categories: speech, debate, congress, service, district, and national. Only about four hundred students out of NFL’s 112,000 student members receive the degree of Premier Distinction each year – about 1/3 of 1 percent. Ripon, Wisconsin – March 21, 2011 Congratulations to Matthew BrueckmannMatthew has been selected as a semifinalist in the 2010-2011 Coca-Cola Scholars Program. Matthew has been recognized for his outstanding leadership, academic achievements and dedication to the community. Congratulations to Bradley SnadeckiGreen Valley senior Bradley Snadecki recently received a letter of appointment to attend the United States Air Force Academy. This appointment is awarded to only 1,500 of the 10,000 students who apply. According to the academy, it is equivalent to a scholarship valued at $414,000. Congratulations to Stephanie NamCongratulations to senior Stephanie Nam who has been selected as one of 125 high school marching musicians and color guard members to perform during halftime of the Nation’s premier high school football game, the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas. 2011 National Merit SemifinalistsCongratulations to the 2011 National Merit Semifinalists. They are Connor Callahan, Jadon Montero, Stephanie Nam, and Benjamin Welch. Student AchievementsCongratulations to Eric Johnston and the InvestiGator Journalism students for winning 24 total awards today at the Review Journal Newspaper Awards. And..... for winning as the "Newspaper of the Year" for the seventh straight year in a row! Go Gators!!! Ashton elected presidentTaylor Ashton, Green Valley High School's student body president, was named Nevada Association of Student Councils' Executive Board President for the 2010-2011 school year. He will be in charge of running the NASC, coordinating meetings, helping with events, and most importantly, creating and enforcing goals and plans for the Nevada Student Councils. Green Valley High School Forensics TeamCongratulations to the Green Valley Forensic Team for taking 1st place at this weekend's District Tournament and qualifying 14 ForensiGators for the National Tournament in June. This is Green Valley's 11th District championship and 17th consecutive year sending students to Nationals. Additionally, senior Spencer Norman, a four-year ForensiGator, was named the District Forensics Student of the Year. This nominated award goes to a student whose attitude transcends trophies and accolades and who characterizes the traits of humility, integrity, leadership, respect and service to community. Green Valley High School took first place in team sweepstakes for the 16th consecutive year at the CCSD Speech & Debate Tournament. Individual 1st place honors for the ForensiGators include:
Julius Kim Congratulations to Skyler Holloway from Green Valley H.S. who received a 2009 NIAA Top Ten Student-Athletes of the Year Award presented by Farmers Insurance Group. This award includes a $1500 scholarship that will be awarded to Skyler. Green Valley High School 2008-2009 #1 School in the State of Nevada for Presidential Scholars Congratulations to our Gator Presidential Scholars
Students from the InvestiGator traveled to Washington DC for the National Journalism Convention this past weekend. Five staff members earned awards in the national write off competition. Sage Leehey-feature writing, Ralph Nitollama-news writing, Tiffany Becker-sports writing, Joe Rajchel-headline writing, and editing, and Clarke Knight- review writing.
A life-changing moment occurred when 15-year-old Jordan Orris heard her name called as Miss Nevada’s Outstanding Teen 2009, an official state preliminary title to Miss America’s Outstanding Teen Organization, the “little sister” to the Miss America Organization (MAO). Please see the attached article for more information. Congratulations to our Gator National Merit Finalists 2010
Congratulations to our Gator National Merit Semifinalist Kathryn Swift!
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We want the record of GVHS's achievements to be correct and complete. If you have information that should be included on these Excellence links, please send it to bdarois@interact.ccsd.net. NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE RATES GVHS IN THE TOP 6% NATIONWIDE!Congratulations, Gators, for being ranked in Newsweek magazine's "America's Top Public High Schools." Green Valley is ranked 859.This list represents the top 6% of all public high schools in the country. 
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The Green Valley Forensics Team won its 11th Nevada State Championship this past weekend. In addition, the team won 9 of the 11 event trophies for scoring the most points in each of the 11 events. Individual 1st place champions for the ForensiGators include the following: Darius Bravo in Dramatic Interpretation; Jason Singh in Domestic Extemporaneous; Jadon Montero in International Extemporaneous; Jordy Barry in Expository; Ashley Roberts in Original Oratory; Ellia Higuchi & Ashley Roberts in Public Forum Debate; and Jadon Montero & Dylan Kama in Policy Debate.
Congratulations Siga Appelgate on being named
One of our women's soccer players, Kayla Varner, has just been named a 2009 Adidas All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Kayla was also named to the Far West all-region team and has been named the 2009 Nevada women's high school player of the year. If you have Kayla in class or see her on campus please congratulate her on these awards. This is a tremendous honor, as she is the only player from Nevada to be selected to either team this year, and we are all very proud of her. Kayla also gave her verbal commitment to play her college soccer at BYU this week. Thanks!
