One hundred outstanding high school seniors from across Wyoming have been selected
to receive the 2026 Trustees’ Scholars Award, the University of Wyoming’s top academic
scholarship.
The premier scholarship for Wyoming resident high school seniors provides a four-year
scholarship for an undergraduate degree (or up to eight consecutive semesters), including
tuition (up to 18 hours per semester); mandatory fees; and university standard double
room and board (room and board is covered providing the student lives in university
housing and has a meal plan).
Students from 31 high schools were chosen, along with three home-school students.
Recipients are evaluated on their academic excellence (high school grade-point average,
ACT/SAT scores and curriculum rigor). Individual interviews were conducted as well.
For this year’s award winners, the average GPA is 3.97, and the average ACT score
is 32.
To retain the scholarship all four years at UW, students must maintain full-time continuous
enrollment (at least 12 semester hours) during the fall and spring semesters each
year, along with a 3.25 cumulative GPA.
Recipients of the 2026 scholarship, listed by high schools they’re attending, are:
Big Piney High School -- Sakiusa Meador.
Buffalo High School -- Ella Berrett, Emily Clason, Titan Cox, Brook Darnell and Shannon
Kessler.
Campbell County High School -- Isabella Halbrooks, Parker Henkes, Oden Little and
Ryder Morman.
Cheyenne Central High School -- Bryce Bentley, Zeman Collins, Isabelle Conwell, Brett
Klein and Axie Mitchell-Elsasser.
Cheyenne East High School -- Madelyn Artery, Nzelle Ayokosok, Missa Bersabe, Delaney
Kaiser, Ellie Kerschner, Ashley Olson and Malena Rhiley.
Cheyenne South High School -- Caleb Mannier and Aaron Walker.
Cody High School -- Sunday Schuh, Andrew Solberg and Nick Stewart.
Cokeville High School -- Hudson Himmerich.
Evanston High School -- Sophia Carter, Luke Guild and Gigi Larson.
Green River High School -- Ethan Bundy and Bekalyn Swett.
Hanna-Elk Mountain Junior/Senior High School -- Corbin Williams.
Home school -- Presley Bray, Cody; Milo DeBusschere, Rock Springs; and Brent Willis,
Medicine Bow.
Kelly Walsh High School -- Madi Cochran, Alex Cypher, William Geiger, Duncan Gillum,
Martha Harris, Zoe Magee, Jonah Mogen, Emma Patterson, Kinley Porter and Julia Veauthier.
Kemmerer High School -- Jacob Platt and Owen See.
Lander Valley High School -- Liesl Edelman, Pablo Rangitsch, Daegan Reinhardt and
Mylee Wadda.
Laramie High School -- Ashlyn Asay, Savannah Berry, Cormac Gernant, Edison Havugimana,
Dylan Hogsett, Brynn Mallberg, Owen McLaughlin, Cian Neely, Libbie Roesler, James
Specht, Gracen Steidley, Wyatt Strain and Diego Villasenor.
Lyman High School -- Hank Babcock.
Mountain View High School -- Aiden Harmon and Piper Redden.
Natrona County High School -- Charles Frausto, Ben Maggi and Carson Munari.
Pine Bluffs High School -- Hattie Lerwick and Ashton Rigby.
Pinedale High School -- Otis Leniger and Decker Normington.
Powell High School -- Audrey Johnson, Kyra Morrow, Katarina Reitz, Isabelle Urbach
and Colin Walker.
Rawlins High School -- Damien Coggins.
Riverton High School -- Tylynn McDonald.
Sheridan High School -- Matt Brown, Lorenzo Cherry, Shaun Gonda, Theodore Keegan,
Cameron Sulz and Gavin Toth.
Star Valley High School -- Trace Clauson, Alex Tolley and Mylie Webb.
Sundance High School -- Catch Downey.
Thunder Basin High School -- Libby Clements and Tatiana Gillenwater.
Tongue River High School -- Erika Stutzman.
Worland High School -- Milo Grzybowski and Rosslyn Rutledge.
Wright Junior-Senior High School -- Jocelyn Umiker.
Wyoming Virtual Academy -- Lily Riggle, Gillette.
For more information about the UW Trustees’ Scholars Award, as well as other scholarship opportunities at UW, go to www.uwyo.edu/sfa/scholarships/index.html.
