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WAUSAU – The UW Wausau Campus Foundation, formerly the UW Marathon County Foundation, has awarded 225 scholarships totaling nearly $220,000 to help local students pay for tuition in the 2020-21 school year. Recipients include selected incoming, continuing and transferring students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau.

“We’re excited to once again reward hard-working local students based upon both merit and need,” said Tami McCann, president of the UW Wausau Campus Foundation. “On behalf of our board of directors, thank you to these students and many generous donors from our community and beyond.”

Below is a list of scholarship recipients categorized by their home communities:

Athens: Morgan Henrichs, Courtney Murkowski

Bowler: Seth Pommer

Edgar: Abigail Bargender, Gabrielle Bargender, Mikaela Christianson

Elton: Charlotte Steffen, Virginia Steffen

Gleason: Madison Gerbig

Hatley: Kaila Trazebiatowski

Irma: Chelsea Waldburger, Teagan Wenzel

Junction City: Skylar Genskow

Marathon: David Ahrens, Dakota Bokath, Emma Handrick

Medford: Tanya Lybert

Merrill: Kaitlyn Beilke, Rachel Bergmann, Bonnie Blaise, Tyler Corazalla, Jack Ford, Anne Herdt, Rylee Hoeppner, Sierra Humphrey, Bailey Iwen, Emma Jaeger, Hannah Mader. Chloe Morris, Logan O’Connell, Alicia Ollhoff, Sierra Smith, Nora Trapp, Austin Weiderhoeft, Kaylee Wilker, Riley Young

Mosinee/Kronenwetter: Elizabeth Blenker, Luke Fisher, Maureen Kelly, Casey Kowalski, Elijah Kulpinski, Nicole Pryzbylski, Sally Tiffany, Morgan Wolosek

Pearson: Gavin Jennings

Plover: Chris Kloiber

Rothschild: Colton Edens, Kieran Talley

Schofield/Weston: Brett Bouchard, Mackenzie Christopherson, Samantha Coates, Clinton Dieck, Yefang Lee, Jennifer Maerz, Rebekah Mootz, Dillan Schroeder, Morgan Severt, Tytianna Springfield, Ryan Stevens, Jaime Trybula, Hannah Winkels, Andreana Yang, Choa Yang

Sheboygan: Isabel Barrington

Stevens Point: Kayla Wellbrock

Tigerton: Anna Watters

Tomahawk: Ella Schwartz, Marci Trapp

Wausau:  Lynzie Ashley, Kayla Balmaceda-Jarquin, Nadia Baumann, Brooke Boe, Lillith Burgess, Tyler Craig, Connor Deffner, Katelyn Delosh, Dylan Dorava, Mario Duwe, Mitch Dye, Danielle Fay, Morgan Forbes, Cassidy Gennerman, Cole Graff, Emily Her, Raelyn Jome, Michael Kirchner, Ava Krukowski, Ayodeji Lawal, Mariah Lear, Anthony Lewis, Benjamin Liss, Max Liss’sGravamade, Caitlyn McGhee, Natasha Neumann, Brie O’Flyng, Olivia Ogstad, Mara Pellatt Whitaker, Brenton Peters, Jenna Rombalski, Kiran Schroeder, Catherine Silavanh, Michelle Steffen, Brooke Stuermer, Alexis Tate, Aerial Thao, Elkin Thao, Aeriana Vang, Natalie Vilter, Bryce Walkowski, Isaac Westberg, Shannon Wilke, Callie Wulk, Ka Chi Yang, Yangmee Yang

Wittenberg: Mitch Amundson, Justin Keeney