2026 AWARDS RECIPIENTS

That time of the year is here again…….The Port Richmond High School Senior Awards Ceremony took place in their auditorium on Tuesday evening June 2, 2026. You may be aware that the 25th Anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center will take place this 9/11/26. Nick lost his life that day! We feel that this 9/11 deserves some special recognition.

Our criteria for a student to receive and award from our Fund is: The recipient should be a Graduating Student Athlete, who has faced adversity, conquered it and gone on to achieve. This year three students composed an essay that they felt would show how they fit the criteria and submitted them to us for consideration.

We really felt that we needed to start taking into consideration that these seniors and those in past years were not even alive on 9/11/01. Now they need to do some research. They need to find out what actually happened that day. They needed to learn about Nick. We need to commend and congratulate each of our 2026 recipients on the way they took the time to do just that. They also incorporated into their essays how the criteria for receiving our award applied to their own lives.

The 2026 Award recipients are:

Andreanny Arias

Andreanny played Varsity Flag Football and Varsity Volleyball as a student in PRHS. Andreanny will attend John Jay College oof Criminal Justice. She would like to pursue a career in Psychology and Forensics.

Alex Savapoulas

Alex played Baseball while attending PRHS. He will be attending City College of New York in the Fall. While there he will be study environmental science and will also pursue playing baseball while there as well.

Sharon Chenhen

Sharon was involved with Cross Country Indoor and Outdoor track while at Port Richmond. She will be attending CUNY Mcauley at CSI on Staten Island. Sharon plans on taking courses related to the science of Engineering such as Calculus, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Programming. She feels these courses will help prepare her for future opportunities in the field of Engineering.

Special thanks to Elizabeth Blanchard The College and Career Counselor at Port Richmond for all her help in making all of this happen.