2024 Quarter One Soaring Eagle Award recipients celebrated their achievement with their families, nominating teachers, and IHA staff at a special reception held on November 12, 2024, in IHA’s Information Commons.

The Soaring Eagle Program at IHA recognizes the distinctive accomplishments of one student from each discipline at Immaculate Heart Academy four times a year. Teachers nominate students for achievements that are benchmarks in their academic career or for demonstrating classroom leadership, perseverance, or growth as a student.

Soaring Eagle Award recipients are more than students with an impressive GPA; they are students who have distinguished themselves by embodying the ideals of an IHA education and demonstrating excellence by working to the best of their ability in a particular subject area. They are enthusiastic, compassionate, creative, and intelligent young women dedicated to personal and academic growth. Miss Kerry Carroll ’04, principal of Immaculate Heart Academy, presented the Soaring Eagle Awards to the following teacher-nominated students standing left to right in group photo:

• Alyssa Lo ’28 (Science/Technology: Dr. Erika Brennan) 
• Elliott Daniels ’26 (World Languages: Mrs. Maria Daly-Valls) 
• Mary Mahoney ’26 (Mathematics: Mr. Greg McDonald) 
• Cali Caprio ’28 (The Arts: Mrs. Lisa Encke) 
• Isabelle Bertussi ’25 (Communications: Ms. Jessi Shaheen) 
• Olivia Gilligan-Ollert ’27 (English: Mrs. Ali Curley)
• Adrianna Rispoli ’26 (Theology: Mrs. Beth Szydlik) 
• Rihanna Desruisseau ’25 (Social Studies: Ms. Caitlin Bonanno)
• Rachel Mathew ’27 (Physical Education: Mr. John Downey) 

Click here for the full photo album, courtesy of Mike Hamlett Photography.

Click here for the Soaring Eagle Quarter One Nomination Video, courtesy of Ms. Jessi Shaheen and Mr. David Lee.