McLean Students Nominated for Presidential Scholars
Fifty-two Fairfax County Public Schools seniors have been selected as candidates for the 2019 Presidential Scholars program, designed to recognize and honor some of the country’s most distinguished graduating high-school seniors.
Up to 161 students from across the nation will be named Presidential Scholars later in the spring. McLean High School has four students who will be in the running for this prestigious award!
Pictured left to right: Noah Schneier, Veronica Lang, Rosy Sultana, Kristen Waagner
National Merit Finalists
Ten of our students are finalists for National Merit Scholarship Program.
Top row left to right: Isabella Swigart, Grace Chung, Caroline Howley, Kristen Waagner Front row left to right: Alexander Wu, Veronica Lang, Helen Ganley, Maren Kranking, Nathaniel Wyerman
Prudential Spirit of Community Award
Sarah Gu has been named one of the top runners-up in the The 2019 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards in VA. Sarah started "The Window," an organization that has provided English language learning opportunities to 400 students in need from Shexian, China.
Pictured: Sarah Gu
Peace Award
Neha Rana is the chief executive officer for the Speak Up initiative that offers free public speaking education to children from low-income families. She is also the McLean representative to the Fairfax County Student Human Rights Commission and the head of the Fairfax-Arlington Chapter of Rise to Run, which encourages young girls to participate in politics and consider running for political office.
Pictured: Neha Rana
National Scholastic Press Association Award
Congratulations to the Tartan literary magazine! The Tartan is a publication that shares student’s writing and art work. It is published at the end of each school year and students participating in the Tartan do so on a volunteer basis. They do everything from choosing the work that gets in, working with the artists and writers to edit work, arranging the magazine, and then designing it all in Adobe InDesign. They also organize various fund raisers and campaign throughout the year for submissions and to get others involved.
The 2018 Tartan was awarded a First Class rating by the National Scholastic Press Association. Additionally, the magazine received Honorable Mention from NSPA for Design of the Year (top 10 in the country)!
The Virginia High School League (VHSL) also recognized the magazine by awarding the Tartan with the Trophy Class award.
Congratulations to all students who submitted work to the magazine!
Pictured: Tartan Staff Sponsor Seth LeBlanc
Fine and Performing Arts
All-State Band
Josh Levy – trumpet
Sarah Levy – bass clarinet
Stephanie Manning - bassoon
Emily Simons – flute
Julia Tan - flute
Kevin Jiang – horn
 Pictured top row left to right: Sarah Levy, Emily Simons, Julia Tan Pictured bottom row left to right: Kevin Jiang, Josh Levy, Stephanie Manning
"Memorable Travel" Exhibit
The Art Department displayed photographs from staff members from their travel.
 Theatre McLean
Theatre Mclean’s production of Lord of the Flies was a labor of love. Over 70 students worked together to completely transform the stage to an idyllic island. That peaceful island is completely disrupted when a plane of boys crash into the forest floor. From there, we see the destruction of humanity as the boys try to build a new world, many times with disastrous results.
 Athletics
Girls Basketball
Elizabeth Dufrane - Liberty District Player of the Year; Regional 1st Team
Natalie Hedrick - 2nd team All-District team
Mariane Auza - Liberty District Defensive Player of the Year; 2nd team All-District team
 Pictured left to right: Elizabeth Dufrane, Natalie Hedrick, Mariane Auza
Boys Basketball
Mike O'Brien - Liberty District Coach of the Year
Matias Prock - Liberty District Player of the Year; Region 1st Team
Brian Aka- 1st team All-District
Evan Stout - 2nd team All-District
Pictured left to right: Mike O'Brien, Matias Prock, Brian Aka, Evan Stout
Gymnastics
Individual State Qualifiers – Tara Stewart & Sara Vavonese
Regional Champion on Balance Beam – Tara Stewart
Runner-up at Regionals on Floor exercise – Sara Vavonese
Pictured left to right: Tara Stewart and Sara Vavonese
Swim and Dive
- Dora Wu (JR) broke the 100 yard breaststroke record, was the Liberty District Champion in the event, earned first team all-district, placing 3rd in the Northern Region meet (same event) and finishing 5th in the same event at VHSL states.
- Steve Han (JR) being crowned the Liberty 6 District Champion in the 100 yard Breaststroke, earning 1st place all-district, placing 3rd in the Northern Region meet (same event), finishing 9th in the same even at VHSL States and earning an Athlete of the Week honor.
- Zazi Halla (JR) for placing 1st in the 1 meter dive at the Liberty 6 District Championship, earning 1st place all-district, placing 3rd at the Northern Region Meet (save event), earning an Athlete of the Week honor.
- Alex Glassman (3rd in Districts) & Jules Bernard (6th in Districts) qualified for Regionals in Dive
- Sarah Wood qualified for Regionals and States in Dive
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Pictured top row left to right: Jules Bernard, Sarah Wood, Zazi Halla - Front row left to right: Alex Glassman, Steve Han, Dora Wu
Track
JaneAnne Tvedt – 1st team all district- Tied School record for High jump and qualified for Nationals
Aziz Malouche – 2nd team all Region
Xavier Jemison – 3rd team all Region
JaneAnne Tvedt – 3rd team all Region
State Qualifiers: JaneAnne Tvedt, Maddy Hecker, Aziz Malouchs, Kyle Jemison, Xavier, Caroline Howley
Pictured back row: Caroline Howley; Front row left to right: Aziz Malouche, Xavier Jemison, JaneAnne Tvedt, Maddy Hecker
Wrestling
We qualified 11 wrestlers to the regional tournament and finished with 3 champions, 120 Ethan Scurlock, 132 Zach Chung, 138 Yazeed Salameh.
We had 3 placers in the regional tournament, all 5th place. 120 Ethan Scurlock, 132 Zach Chung 160 Nathen Fishman
Pictured left to right: Nathan Fishman, Zach Chung, Ethan Scurlock, Yazeed Salameh
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