Southeastern College of Honors and Excellence recognizes top students

Southeastern Louisiana University’s College of Honors and Excellence celebrated its top students recently at an award ceremony held on campus. 
Honors Freshman of the Year finalists are students who began their studies in the fall of 2025. They were nominated by a member of the honors faculty and selected by an essay evaluation and interview panel process.

In order to earn Senior Honors Distinction, students must complete a self-directed prospectus course in the junior year, earn nine hours of upper-level honors credits, including at least one special topics honors seminar, and have an outstanding grade point average.

Honors Medal recipients are students who have earned 15 hours of core credit, nine hours of upper-level honors credit, and successfully authored and defended an honors thesis.

Also recognized at the awards ceremony were Communications and Media Studies Instructor Fay Boudreaux as Honors Professor of the Year and First Year Success Academic Advisor DeJuan James as Advisor of the Year. 

Listed by city, the following students were recognized at the ceremony:
ABITA SPRINGS – Christopher Anderson, physics graduating tutor.

ANGIE – Ashton Smith, Senior Honors Distinction.

BATON ROUGE – Aaliyah Frazier, Spirit of Southeastern Award; Baylee Fontenot, SE 1010/1020 Freshman of the Year; and Carrington Wynn, Senior Honors Distinction, Honors Diploma recipient, and Honors Thesis Award.

BELLE CHASSE – Lorelei Brewer, Phi Kappa Phi Honors Student of the Year; and Eva Graham, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

COVINGTON – Riley Beck, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Abigail Cloud, Senior Honors Distinction and Honors Diploma recipient; and James Garcia, physics graduating tutor.

DENHAM SPRINGS – Jackson Root, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Francis Bordelon, biological sciences graduating tutor.

FRENCH SETTLEMENT – Brooklyn Jones, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

GONZALES – Brenna Stamper, Senior Honors Distinction and Honors Diploma recipient; and Abby Pennington, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

GREENWELL SPRINGS – Wynter Snow, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

HAMMOND – Ethan Cochran, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Michael Delgado, Senior Honors Distinction and Honors Diploma recipient; Trinity Tallman Springer, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Goodness Egware, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Nicole Yang, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Maryann Okpara, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Katelyn Hemel, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Sarina Khadka, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

HARVEY – Madison Moses, Honors Diploma recipient.

HOUMA – Toby Lirette, English graduating tutor, The Spark of Excellence Award, and Honors Diploma recipient.

LAFAYETTE – Eden Dardeau, Senior Honors Distinction.

LAPLACE – Aimee Dauenhauer, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Nathan Vatter, Senior Honors Distinction.

MADISONVILLE – Victoria Allen, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Isabelle Costner, Honors Diploma Recipient; Savannah Cousins, Honors Diploma recipient; Madison Lauve, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Harper Laskie, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

MANDEVILLE – Lauren Mouton, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Gavin Bech, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Anya Chaney-Martinez, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

MARRERO – Lainey Bertucci, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

METAIRIE – Kimmie Anderson, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

PONCHATOULA – Micah Delgado, Honors Diploma recipient; Faith Richard, Honors Program Freshman of the Year; Charles Ragan, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Gracie Anderson, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Annabelle Rodrigue, biological sciences graduating tutor; and Ethan Buras, mathematics graduating tutor.

PORT SULFER – Olivia Barthelemy, Sophomore Honors Distinction

PRAIRIEVILLE – Cole Debiaso, Sophomore Honors Distinction; Jordan Lobell, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Baylie O’Bannon, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

SAINT AMANT – Ashlynn Picou, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Brenna Stamper, Honors  Diploma recipient.

SCHRIEVER – Emily Orgeron, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

SLIDELL – Halle Shields, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Alexander Pope, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

SPRINGFIELD – Courtney Stevens, Sophomore Honors Distinction; and Summer Stevens, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

SUN – Kyle Hidaldo, Senior Honors Distinction and Honors Diploma recipient.

THIBODAUX – Lara Boudreaux, chemistry graduating tutor.

WALKER – Noelle Chutz, Sophomore Honors Distinction.

ZACHARY – Anyah Matthews, Transfer Student of the Year.