'Money Night' for Placer High scholarship winners

Placer High School held its annual Money Night – aka "Money Night" – on May 19. Here is a list of those who earned scholarships: AAUW Auburn Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, Isabella Fallis, Sheri Haggerty, Megan Hyatt, Abbie Labrecque, Laura Lee, Chloe Lynch, $1,300. AAUW Speech Trek (third place): Josie Keister, $300. Ackerman Charter School District Bowman Charter School Scholarship: Addie Buckingham, Chloe Hollitz, Abbie Labrecque, Sora Lasko, Olivia Passafiume, $1,000. Aimi Sue Ellyson Memorial Scholarship: Rylee Yetka $2,500, Ashleigh Oates $1,500, Kaila Sheriff, Abbie Labrecque, $500. Al Saladana Basketball Scholarship: Alexander Russell, $2,000. Alonzo Hazen Science Award: Finn Martin, Josie Keister, $1,000. Auburn 49er Lions Hardworker Award for Math: Jack Griffitts, $500. Auburn 49er Lions Hardworker Award for Visual & Performing Arts: Keira Ferry, $500. Auburn 49er Lions Hardworker Award for World Language: Joanna Ojeda, $500. Auburn Area Democratic Club Scholarship: Aylin Romero Estudillo, Mikaela Balaban, $500. Auburn Gold Country Rotary Alan Young Bootstrap Award: Melissa Argueta, Lillian Huber, Fernando Medina, Matthew Silcott, $2,000. Auburn-Grass Valley Elks Lodge 538 - Clifford L. Looby Scholarship: Paige Collum, $1,250. Auburn Host Lions Club "We Serve" Scholarship: Megan Hyatt, Edward Sutherland, $2,000. Auburn Kiwanis Club Community College Scholarship: Megan Hyatt, $2,000. Auburn Kiwanis Club Scholarship: Emma Villanueva-Crossley, Kaila Sheriff, Riley Upton, $2,000. Auburn Kiwanis Harry F. Benzie PHS Key Club Scholarship: Ava Conn, $2,000. Auburn Kiwanis Harry F. Benzie Placer High School Boys' Varsity Baseball Team Scholarship: Jayson Glatt, $2,000. Auburn Kiwanis Ken Tokutomi Memorial Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, $2,000. Auburn Kiwanis Mark Fujii Memorial Key Club Scholarship: Aylin Romero Estudillo, $2,000. Auburn-Grass Valley Elks Lodge 538 Clifford L. Looby Scholarship: Paige Collum, $1,250. Bill Francis Memorial Scholarship: Alexandra Argueta, $500. Cabrillo Civic Club #5 Scholarship: Atheena Sena, $500. Carmen Wilson Scholarship: Lillian Huber and Ryan Silva, $4,000. Charles & Fannie Keena Scholarship: Olivia Passafiume and Alexis Vazquez-Ramos, $1,000. Covich & Johnson Scholarship: Belle Fallis, $2,000 Dale Lackey Memorial Scholarship: Olivia Passafiume, $2,000 Daughters of the American Revolution Award: Mikaela Balaban, $500. Don Graham Memorial Award: Leah Flanigan, $1,000. Dr. Stanley, Ruth and Eric Chun Music Scholarship: Ryan Silva, $400; Parker Gutierrez, Jarred Roman, $300. Earle Eisley Memorial Scholarship: Belle Fallis, $1,000. Eureka Masonic Lodge #16 Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, $1,000. Friebus Family Scholarship: Nathan Thurmon, $500. Heather Mauel Family Scholarship: Melinda Gonzalez Alonso, Aylin Romero Estudillo, Alexis Vazquez-Ramos, $2,000; Hayden Lamb-Wesch, $1,000. Hillmen Foundation Scholarship: Abbie Labrecque and Laura Lee, $1,000. Hoeper Award: Aislin Burkholder, Treben Cumberledge, Riley Upton, Rylee Yetka, Hannah Liebert, $1,000. Jane Roach Memorial Scholarship: Jarred Roman, $2,500. Jason Rhoades Memorial Scholarship: Jake Dunkle, $500. Jeanne Coppedge Joye Memorial Art Scholarship: Lucy Nemeth, $500. John G. & Lillian M. Walsh Scholarship: Melinda Gonzalez Alonso, Hudson Lesher, Annie McAnally, $500. Joseph Johnson Memorial Scholarship: Leah Flanigan, $2,000. Ken & Janice Forbes Geil Scholarship: Annie McAnally, Aislin Burkholder, $4,000. Ken Tokutomi Memorial Scholarship: Lydia White, $500. Larry D. Mitchell Memorial Scholarship: Chloe Hollitz, Abbie Labrecque, $1,500. Max Herlehy Scholarship: Riley Upton, $1,000. Moose International Heart of the Community Award: Avery Shepard, $1,000. Oyer Scholarship: Elidia Claudio-Perez, $1,000. PARC Essay Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, $1,000. PARC Foundation Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, Ava Conn, Gracie Hamilton, Jocie Keister, $1,000. PEO GQ Chapter Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, $2,000. PHS Athletic Hall of Fame Scholarship: Sora Lasko, Riley Upton, $500. PHS Athletic Hall of Fame – Rad McCord Scholarship: Olivia Passafiume, $1,000. Chapel of the Hills & Placer County Navy League Scholarship: Abbie Labrecque, $200. Lasilla Funeral Chapel & Placer County Navy League Scholarship: Sophie Moser, $200. TGH Aviation & Placer County Navy League Scholarship: Lillian Huber, $500. Placer Sportsmen Harry Rosenberry Memorial Scholarship: Andrew Sanchez, $500. R.W. Townsend American Legion Post 84 Scholarship: Lucy Nemeth, Finn Martin, $400. Raymond S. Nelson Memorial Scholarship: Alexandra Argueta, $500. Richard and Doris Sayles Family Scholarship: Sydney Nitta, Madelyn Sorenson, $1,000. Rotary Club of Auburn Presidential Award: Angel Espinoza Sanchez, Abbie Labrecque, $3,000; Sheri Haggerty, $2,500. Rotary Club of Auburn Steve and Rose Brown: Ashleigh Oates, $2,500. Rotary Club of Auburn Steve Snyder Academic Award: Alexis Vazquez-Ramos, $3,500 Rotary Club of Auburn Virgil R. Traynor, DVM Memorial Animal Science/Academic Award: Mikaela Balaban, $3,000. Samia Macon Memorial Scholarship: Belle Fallis, $2000; Brian Mejia, $1,500. Society of American Military Engineers Sacramento Post Award: Mikaela Balaban, $3,500. Soroptimist International of Auburn High School Award: Mikaela Balaban, Leah Flanigan, Olivia Passafiume, $1,000. Soroptimist International of Auburn Perseverance Award: Ocean Davis, Melinda Gonzalez Alonso, Megan Hyatt, $1,000. Soroptimist International of the American River Violet Richardson Award: Mikaela Balaban, Megan Hyatt, $1,000. Soroptimist Ruth Johnston Memorial Scholarship administered by Hillmen Foundation: Laura Lee, $500. Steven French Memorial Award: Julian Lewandowski, $500. Stoutenburg Family Career Pathway Award: Angel Espinoza Sanchez, Hudson Lesher, $2,000. 2024 PUHSD Student Board Member Scholarship: Aylin Romero Estudillo, $1,000. 2025 PUHSD Student Board Member Scholarship: Ava Conn, $1,250. Thomas & Jill Schroeder Scholarship: Alexandra Argueta, $1,000. Tradestrong Scholarship: Atheena Sena, $2,500. Vernon McCann Journalism Award: Ryley Yetka, $500. Western States Determination Award: Sora Lasko, Olivia Passafiume, Baylor Kelley, $1,000. William "Bill" Kirby, MD Memorial Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, $1,000. William Lawrence Greene Memorial Scholarship: Mikaela Balaban, $4,500; Olivia Passafiume, 3,000.