Sixth through eighth graders at PerdidoMiddle School were recognized at Awards Night, for their outstanding academic excellence, citizenship and athletics.

Sixth graders being recognized were Hannah Booker - Citizenship & Cross Country Manager, Rebecca Booker – A/B Honor Roll, Best all Around in Math and Cross Country Manager, Mary Dean – A/B Honor Roll and 2nd Highest in Math, Lilly Flowers – Soccer Manager, Brett Foster – A/B Honor Roll, 2nd Highest Average in Reading and Best All Around in English, John Jenks – A/B Honor Roll and 3rd Highest Average in Social Studies, Alyse Jones – Citizenship, Kalen Kimbler – A/B Honor Roll, 2nd Highest Average in Social Studies and 2nd Highest Average in Humanities, Brice McCullough – 3rd Highest Average in Reading and 2nd Highest Average in English, Lauren McCullough – Cross County Manager, Triston Maddox – Best All Around in Reading, Arial Scarborough – Highest Average in Science and Best All Around in Humanities, Tanner Smith – 3rd Highest Average in Science, Highest Average in Social Studies, 3rd Highest Average in Math 3rd Highest Average in Humanities and Football Manager, Travis Snider – Best All Around in Science, Highest Average in Humanities and National Geo Bee Winner, Hunter Stewart – 3rd Highest Average in English, Colton Thompson – A/B Honor Roll, Highest Average in Reading, Highest Average in English, and Citizenship, Matthew Tuberville – Citizenship and Football Manager, Hannah White – A/B Honor Roll, Best All Around in Social Studies and Highest Average in Band, Aaron Ziegler – Highest Average in Math and 2nd Highest Average in Science.

Seventh graders being recognized were Nicholas Arnette – Soccer, Holly Bates – A/B Honor Roll, Citizenship, Highest Average Language Arts, 3rd Highest Average in Science, Basketball and Track, William Brooks – A/B Honor Roll, Citizenship, 3rd Highest Average in Language Arts, Football and Basketball, Carley Bullin – Volleyball, Soccer, Track and Basketball, Haley Clough – Soccer, Gage Coleman – Soccer, Damian Corey – Track, Jacob Cox – Citizenship and Best All Around in Humanities, Cayley Crocker – Track, Cagan Crysell – A/B Honor Roll, Tayler Drinkard – Volleyball, Cheerleader, Soccer, Basketball and Track, Zac Dumas – Football, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Kristian Fontenot – A/B Honor Roll, Tyler Gardner – Football and Track, Zachary Gibbs – A/B Honor Roll, Samantha Gilliam – Cheerleader and Track, Kenzie Gohagan – A/B Honor Roll and Cheerleader, Payton Gray – Track, Madysen Griffey – Volleyball and Basketball, Nicholas Hadley – A/B Honor Roll and Football, Mason Kelley – Football, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Brendon Lanham – A/B Honor Roll, 3rd Highest Average in Creative Writing, 2nd Highest Average in math and Best All Around in Geography and Civics, Brent Ledkins – Basketball, Nash Linam – A Honor Roll, Highest Average in Creative Writing, 3rd Highest Average in Geography/Civics, Highest Average in Science and 3rd Highest Average in Humanities, Cady Livermore – 2nd Highest Average in Creative Writing, Highest Average in math, 2nd Highest Average in Geography/Civics, 2nd Highest Average in Science and Highest Average in Humanities, Basketball and Track, Sawyer McCullough – A/B Honor Roll, Best All Around in math, Best All Around in Science and Football, Keegan McGhee – Best All Around in Language Arts, Football and Basketball, Dylan Milstid – A/B Honor Roll, Citizenship and Highest Average in Band, Dillion Minchew – Football and Basketball, Jonathan Norris – Basketball, Football, Soccer and Track, Swayze Phelan – A/B Honor Roll, Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Caleb Pimperl – A/B Honor Roll, Callie Roley – A/B Honor Roll, 2nd Highest Average in Language Arts, Cheerleader, Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, and Track, Makayla Shiver – Soccer and Track, Macaila Sims – Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Samantha Stewart – Best All Around in Creative Writing, Savannah Tingle – Cheerleader and Basketball, Logan Turner – A/B Honor Roll, 3rd Highest Average in Math, Highest Average in Geography/Civics, 2nd Highest Average in Humanities, School’s Spelling Bee Winner, Football, Basketball and Soccer, Hannah Vickery – Soccer and Cross Country Manager, Dalen Wiggin – Football, Krissy Witherington – Basketball.

Eighth graders being recognized were Hannah Bailey – Volleyball, Cross Country and Soccer, Josh Booker – Football, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Kendall Brown – Volleyball, Madison Bryars – Citizenship and Cheerleader, Annie Cooper – Soccer and Track, Katelyn Cox – A/B Honor Roll, Highest Average in Creative Writing, 2nd Highest Average in Math, 2nd Highest Average in Humanities, Volleyball and Track Manager, LeJour Cruse – Volleyball, Basketball, Cross County and Track, Georgia Davidson – Soccer, Caitlin Davis - Soccer, Riley Davis – Cheerleader and Soccer, Amia Dean – Track, Nancy Dean – Highest Average in Band, Christopher Duddy – Citizenship, Football and Soccer, Allie Flowers – 2nd Highest Average in Language Arts, Soccer and Cross Country, Angel Foster – Soccer and Track, Tristain Hall – Soccer, Kinnion Jackson - Football, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Zac Johns – Football, Basketball, Soccer, Cross Country and Track, Logan Joiner – Basketball, Nathan Jordan – Soccer and Track, Cory Kelley – Football and Soccer, Zac Koptis, Football, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Jacob McIntyre – Best All Around in Creative Writing and Soccer, John David Neutze – A/B Honor Roll, Best all Around in Science and World History, 3rd Highest Average Humanities, Football, Basketball and Track, Dagan New – A/B Honor Roll, Soccer, Track and Cross Country, Kimberly Newton – Best All Around in Math, Highest Average in Language Arts and 2nd Highest Average in Science, Chase Overstreet – Football and Basketball, Jarrod Phillips – A/B Honor Roll, 3rd Highest Average in World History, Best All Around in Humanities, Football, Basketball, Soccer and Track, Tabatha Pittman – Cross Country, Abby Reed – Citizenship, Soccer and Basketball, Collin Richard – Soccer, DJ Shiver – Football and Basketball, Nicholas Shiver – Football and Soccer, Cade Stamps – Football and Basketball, Alexis Stewart – Best All Around in Language Arts, Sydney Stewart – A Honor Roll, 2nd Highest Average in Creative Writing, Highest Average in; Math World History, Science and Humanities, Volleyball and Cheerleader, Olivia Trawick – A/B Honor Roll, 3rd Highest Average Language Arts, 3rd Highest Average Science, Basketball, Cross Crount and Track, Alexis Wallace – 3rd Highest Average in Creative Writing, Kelly Wiggins – A/B Honor Roll, 3rd Highest Average Math, Cheerleader and Volleyball, Mackral Wilder – Football and Basketball, Evan Williams – A/B Honor Roll, 2nd Highest Average World History, Christian Woods – Track and Basketball.

Academic Athlete of the Year: Olivia Trawick and Josh Booker

Athlete of the Year: Lejour Cruse and Zac Johns

William Cassaday Award: Chase Overstreet

Paralyzed Veterans of America Essay: National Finalists: John Jenks, Kalen Kimbler and Zac Koptis

Patriots Pen Essay: first place - Sydney Stewart, second place – John Neutze and third place – Cady Livermore

Duke Talent Search State Award Winner: Logan Turner

State Computer Fair: third place – Travis Snider

State Economics Challenge: first place team; Kelly Wiggin, Josh Booker and Zac Koptis

State Economics Challenge: 5th place team; Katelyn Cox, Anthony Fullerton and Dagan New

State Winner, American Free Enterprise System: third place – Katelyn Cox

Alabama Stock Market Game: fourth place team; Zac Gibbs, Kayley Palmer, Johnathan Norris, Cady Livermore and Brent Ledkins

Alabama Stock Market Game: seventh place team; Nick Hadley, Samantha Gilliam and Jacob Cox

Eighteen students received the Principal’s Award. This award is given to eighth graders who earned a grade point average of 90 or about for their sixth, seventh and the first semester of their eighth grade years.  In addition, students must have been in good standing and demonstrated motivation, initiative, integrity, intellectual depth and exceptional judgment.  Those students earning this award were Josh Booker, Katelyn Cox, Nancy Dean, Allie flowers, Zac Koptis, John David Neutze, Dagan New, Kimberly Newton, Chase Overstreet, Heather Parker, Jarrod Phillips, Abby Reed, Sydney Stewart, Olivia Trawick, Alexis Wallace, Kelly Wiggins, Evan Williams and Christian Woods.

This year’s Valedictorian was Sydney Stewart and Salutatorian was Katelyn Cox.