CHARLOTTE — Charlotte Catholic High School announces that seniors Madison Marie Huber and Cade Allan MacQuarrie have been named National Merit Scholarship finalists.
Huber is president of the Spanish Honor Society and vice president of the Girls Who Code Club at CCHS. She is a member of the National Honor Society and served as a graduation marshal during her sophomore and junior years. She volunteers at St. Mark School and for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, tutors students in grades 6-11, has worked as a mayoral campaign volunteer, and has played the piano for 13 years. She is the daughter of Steve and Sue Huber of Huntersville.
MacQuarrie is a member of the National Honor Society and the Spanish Honor Society. He has served as Honor Council president and as a graduation marshal during his sophomore and junior years. He volunteers at the Angels and Sparrows soup kitchen, as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion at St. Mark Church in Huntersville, and at the Davidson Police Department. He has played club, junior varsity and varsity lacrosse as well as junior varsity football. He is the son of John and Margo MacQuarrie of Huntersville.
Nearly 1.6 million high school juniors from more than 22,000 high schools nationwide entered this year’s competition by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last fall. Approximately 16,000 students qualified as semifinalists, representing less than 1 percent of all U.S. high school seniors. From this group of outstanding students, 15,000 finalists have been named, and more than half of all finalists will receive either a Merit Scholarship or a Special Scholarship from a corporate sponsor. The winners will be announced between April and July. They will join more than 300,000 other distinguished students who have earned the National Merit Scholar title.
The National Merit Scholarship program was founded in 1955 to distinguish and honor academically talented American high school students and to encourage them to develop their talents and skills to the fullest. The competition is very rigor-ous, and scholarship winners are chosen based on their skills, abilities, extracurricular accomplishments and potential for future success.