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UCS seniors represent more than half of Macomb's top graduates

Compilation of grads

Utica Community Schools had a great night at the 2025 All-Academic Team banquet with our graduates’ representing 50 percent or better in the honors awarded that evening. Students were selected as among the county’s “best and brightest” in the county and were honored at a dinner on Tuesday night.

UCS had 30 of 61 students selected for the All-Academic Team. In addition, the program honored 25 students as the top graduates in the county. UCS had 13 of 25 students selected for this All-Academic Dream Team.

The program is sponsored each year by the Macomb Intermediate School District, the Macomb County Principal’s Association and the Macomb Daily.  The students were honored at a banquet on April 29.

Students selected for the Dream Team – described of the top students in the county – are:

  • Julie Myslimaj, Eisenhower High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Ansh Malhotra, Stevenson High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Siya Vashi, Stevenson High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Samantha Luu, Eisenhower High School
  • Madelyn Witulski, Eisenhower High School
  • Allison Tuttle, Utica High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Justin Loveday, Eisenhower High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Isaac Kellogg, Henry Ford II High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Rahul Padmanabhan, Henry Ford II High School
  • Riley Brimm, Gene L. Klida Utica Academy for International Studies
  • Alayna Aamodt, Eisenhower High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • James Thomas, Henry Ford II High School/Utica Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology
  • Monica Smylnycky, Stevenson High School

The students were selected from among the All Academic Team Honorees. Other honorees on the All Academic Team include:

Eisenhower High School

  • Payton Holman
  • Benjamin Kapanka
  • Mason Kirsch
  • Streekar Kompella
  • Dana Meri
  • Lena Meri
  • Madelyn Witulski

Stevenson High School

  • Dmytro Darmogray
  • Jacob Lewandowski

Utica High School

  • Sarah John
  • Faith Kopp
  • Madeline Pittel
  • Matthew Shelmon

Gene L. Klida Utica Academy for International Studies

  • Drew Belisle
  • Natalia Malewicz
  • Saifan Mirza
  • Evelyn Niksa
  • Adeline Paul