Editors note: The Express-News reached out to media relations directors, athletic directors and coaches to compile a list of student-athletes who are being recognized as the valedictorians and salutatorians of their classes. This is a product of their feedback.

Matias Castillo

School: St. Anthony

Notable: Castillo was a two-way starter in football. He was also a starter in baseball and basketball.

Amy Dittmar

School: Fredericksburg

Notable: Dittmar was a member of the Billies UIL Class 4A state championship team tennis squad in 2019.

Ashley Elizondo

School: Stevens

Notable: Elizondo played softball and was awarded a $7,500 Valero Alamo Bowl Student-Athlete scholarship. She will play softball at OLLU.

Morgan Fey

School: Southwest

Notable: Fey won the Class 5A state championship in the discus and earned a bronze in the shot put in 2019. Fey holds the school record in both events. Her season best in the discus (150 feet, 4 inches) was ninth-best mark in the country in 2020. Fey will compete for Rice.

Wesley Halstead

School: OConnor

Notable: Halstead was a four-year varsity letter winner in swimming. Also competed in water polo and was on the academic decathlon team for three years.

* Emily Hoffman

School: East Central

Notable: Hoffman competed in cross country and track for the Hornets.

Will Johnston

School: Kerrville Tivy

Notable: Johnston was a starter in basketball and also competed on the debate team and served on the student council. He will attend Vanderbilt to study engineering.

Kaitlyn Klepac

School: La Vernia

Notable: Competed in varsity cross country for four years and qualified for the regional meet three times. She plans to attend Texas A&M to study biochemical engineering.

Jewel Medel

School: YWLA

Notable: Competed in basketball, volleyball and track. Medel will study neuroscience and English at Brown.

Taylor McClung

School: Northside ISD Communication Arts

Notable: Competed in cross country and track for Taft. She will attend Texas to study chemical engineering.

Kate McNeil

School: Pleasanton

Notable: One of her class five four-year varsity letter winners in soccer, she earned a $10,000 scholarship for her presentation in the horse skillathon at the 2019 San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.

James Mendez

School: Smithson Valley

Notable: Mendez was a member of the soccer team. He plans to attend Harvard to study biomedical engineering.

Avalon Munoz

School: Edison

Notable: Earned varsity letters in basketball and cross country. Munoz, who will attend UT-Permian Basin to play basketball, was a member of the Express-News Super Team for basketball. She also won two district cross country championships.

Eduardo Ramos

School: Fox Tech

Notable: Ramos, a member of the soccer and track teams, graduated with certification as a medical assistant. He will study neuroscience at Texas.

Hayden Ray

School: Taft

Notable: Ray was a three-year member of the varsity soccer team.

Donovan Ricondo

School: South San

Notable: Ricondo was a two-year varsity letter winner in basketball.

Alee Schott

School: Medina Valley

Notable: Schott scored 20 goals and 10 assists for the soccer team. She will attend Schreiner to play soccer.

Kalani Thorpe

School: Canyon Lake

Notable: Thorpe competed in soccer for the Hawks. She plans to attend Colorado State to study computer science.

Destin Weathersby

School: Clemens

Notable: Weathersby was the National Honor Society vice president and was a member of student council, Key Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Mu Alpha Theta. She plans to study biochemistry at Texas A&M before heading to medical school.

Trinity Williford

School: New Braunfels Canyon

Notable: Williford competed in soccer for the Cougars. She plans to attend Dallas Baptist to study biology.

* Solomon Yoon

School: Roosevelt

Notable: Yoon competed for three seasons in swimming. Roosevelts top-ranked student earned all-district and all-state honors in academics. He will attend Johns Hopkins on a full academic scholarship.

Ashlyn Zingelmann

School: Brandeis

Notable: Zingelmann recovered from a knee injury suffered in 2019 and returned to earn her fourth varsity letter in soccer. She will play soccer at North Texas.

* North East ISD and East Central ISD do not designate students as valedictorians or salutatorians.

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