Youth Salute Leadership Awards
As a part of our involvement in youth and leadership, Hills Bank has sponsored the Youth Salute Leadership Awards for 31 years. Youth Salute is a program of the National Council on Youth Leadership (NCYL) and is guided by the vision of making tomorrow’s world better by developing leaders today. The council’s mission is to assist communities to applaud, encourage, and provide opportunity for the leadership development of their youth.
2025 Youth Salute Leadership Awards Presented to Local High School Seniors
The local leadership award winners include: Jesse Varner (City High), Shanza Sami (West High), Amal Eltayib (City High), Angel Garcia Castro (Regina), Alma Bhandary-Narayanan (City High), Finnley Bonfig (West High), Adam Salem (West High), Waad Dafalla (West High), Venelin Kotev (West High), Sophia Jin (Liberty), Taylor Vittetoe (Liberty), Lucy Maassen (Liberty), Molly McLaughlin (Liberty), Zaina Mohamed (Liberty), Logan Vittitoe (Liberty), Saylee Gingerich (West Branch), Evan Waring (Clear Creek), Benjamin Flander (English Valleys), Kaylee Frazier (English Valleys), Emma Cole (Highland), Michaela Schachtlie (Iowa Valley), Abby Bock (Lisbon), Jackson Knapp (Lisbon), Caleb Ross (Lisbon), Kaitlyn Silver (Lisbon), Jesse Stultz (Mid-Prairie), Edith Dawson (Mt Vernon), Emara Perreault (Mt Vernon), Evan White (Regina), Presley Hora (Washington), Isabelle Peterson (Washington), Zoe Allen (Williamsburg), Cooper Bott (Williamsburg), and Aubrey Sinn (Williamsburg).
View the complete list of 2025 Participants:
City High
Manar Abdalla Ahmed
Christopher Alter
Elizabeth Asklof
Philip Berry-Stoelzle
Alma Bhandary-Narayanan
Idailyah Bradford
Hannah Braun
Liz Degner
Jack Edwards
Katiya Ellermeier
Amal Eltayib
Rachel Haack
Gloria Konu
Halle Larew
Claire Locher
Rowyn Maas
Katie Nguyen
Atlas Parsons
Orlando Plum Cuba
Lily Rantanen
Abigail Sigafoose
Kat Stadtlander
Drew Summers
Jesse Varner
Clear Creek Amana
Hayden Bailey
Mackenzie Burnett
Gwen Dao
Morgan Downes
Lena Evans
Emily Henderson
Gretchen Kruse
Averie Lower
Jayden Ohrt
Sydney Pfeiffer
Jaival Rana
Nic Schieltz
Sariah Sherman
Nakia Tangang
Elizabeth Timmerman
Evan Waring
Brenna Williams
English Valleys
Taylie Brecht
Benjamin Flander
Kaylee Frazier
Hunter Offerman
Phoenix Sorden
Aliza Walker
Highland
Emma Cole
Mackenzie Davis
Cassidy Duster
Sandra Edwards
Brena Hazelett
Chase Hickenbottom
Owen Knox
Greta Piette
Hailey Plank
Emersyn Schultz
Hillcrest Academy
Niva Helmuth
Micah Kacmarynski
Anjali Mezhir
Lincoln Miller
Rowan Miller
Tara Poole
Owen Scott
Rya Scott
Siena Stanerson
Nora Swartzendruber
Claire Withrow
Ethan Yoder
Iowa Valley
Shayla Helgeson
Kathryn Kilgard
Michaela Schachtile
Liberty
Jackson Adam
Issma Ahmed
Taylor Cavanh
Kennedy Goodheart
Isaac Graezel
Pete Hanson
George Hoover
Sophia Jin
Parker Kacmarynski
Bella Kellbach
Tayler Knight
Lucy Maassen
Logan McGowan
Molly McLaughlin
Zaina Mohamed
Vincent Ni
Finn O’Toole
Natalie Ramsey
Reece Rettig
Camryn Rickels
Ava Tague
Alexi Thigpen
Logan Vittetoe
Taylor Vittetoe
Callum Wu
Nora Yates
David Zingman
Lisbon
Abby Bock
Kamryn Kahl
Jackson Knapp
Avery Long
Adalyn Ricke
Caleb Ross
Kaitlyn Silver
Lone Tree
Emmett Burke
Ava Christofferson
Alyson Ford
Alyssa Hartman
Carter Schott
Delaney Volk
Cade Willoz
Mid-Prairie
Ellie Callahan
Griffin Caskey
Jillian Clark
Ryann Dolan
Kassidi Greiner
Kadence Grout
Ariel Kaufman
Sophie Miller
Brynn Northup
Harper Pacha
Hannah Rodgers
Alaina Safly
Olivia Schlabach
Elijah Statler
Jesse Stultz
Cassie Trimpe
Rebekah Wallington
Allie Whetstine
Leah Wilson
Cadance Yoder
Mount Vernon
Isaac Dausener
Edith Dawson
Carly Elliott
Emma Hoffman
Jase Jaspers
Claire Jensen
Emara Perreault
Kiersten Swart
Norah Weber
Adeline Whisner
Regina
Caitlyn Bell
Savannah Dickey
Harper Erwin
Angel Garcia Castro
Elise Gingerich
Yuchen Gong
Laird Holden
Riley Houser
Ella Keune
Hudson Koch
Gianna Martini
Rachel Nugent
Howie O’Rourke
Luke Rustan
Abigail Santillan
Maddie Squiers
Abby Tierney
Kyle Tracy
Paul Weiner
Evan White
Solon
Chloe Benjamin
Jaya Farlinger
Tyler Greazel
Madyn Hahn
Allison Hedge
Madison Singbeil
Tucker Spence
Piper Stahle
Teague Williams
Washington
Maya Bruty
Jocelyn Carter
Drew Conrad
Iris Dahl
Quintyn Garibay
Mila Hansen
Presley Hora
Adalyn Long
Leighton Messinger
Taylor Miksch
Isabelle Peterson
Callie Schiebel
Blake Sheetz
Oaklee Sobaski
Emma Taylor
West Branch
Ewan Arlen
Ali Gade
Saylee Gingerich
Caitlyn Harrison
Aizlyn Marsh
Lincoln Naber
Maddie Neuberger
Sophia Oaks
Addison Schultes
Nolan Staker
Madelynn Tygrett
Lillian Waters
Rey Watt
West High
Omnia Ali
Mayar Aliwaisi
Iman Alnour
Finnley Bonfig
Sylvia Broffitt
Mariah Bruening
Kayla Cariens
Ellie Chen
Waad Dafalla
Winston Fan
Jena Frank
Anna Gibson
Anna Greenlee
Jason Kim
Venelin Kotev
Evelyn Kraber
Jerry Li
William Lyons
Maya Mueller
Eva Ortega Lopez
Tirza Overholt
Anita Parecattil
Sage Pottorff
Hallei Praska
Ellie Roetlin
Adam Salem
Shanza Sami
Max Schebel
Charlotte Stephens
Shahd Suleiman
Sophie Tremblay
Jasmine Tsang
Caroline Vander Weg
Jacob Weimar
Williamsburg
Zoe Allen
Cooper Bott
Finn Brummel
Kenzi Driscoll
Brody Hawk
Demi Horvath
Zoe Hulseberg
Kendall Jepson
Nolan Kent
Caleb Kubas
Colby McMullin
Tyler McMullin
Jersey Metz
Averi Nielsen
Eleanor Sinclair
Aubrey Sinn
Bowen Stratton
Jenna Yearian
2025 Schedule for Youth Salute Displays:
| 9/8 – 9/15 | Iowa City Eastside Office 2621 Muscatine Ave, Iowa City |
| 9/15 – 9/22 | Iowa City Gilbert Street Office 1401 S Gilbert St, Iowa City |
| 9/22 – 9/29 | Iowa City Downtown Office 201 S Clinton St, Iowa City |
| 9/29 – 10/6 | Hills Office 131 Main St, Hills |
| 10/6 – 10/20 | Coralville Office 1009 2nd St, Coralville |
| 10/13 – 10/20 | Mt Vernon Office 720 1st Ave SE, Mount Vernon Will display Lisbon, Mt Vernon, Solon and West Branch |
| 10/20 – 11/3 | North Liberty Forevergreen Office 590 W Forevergreen Rd, North Liberty Will display City High, Clear Creek Amana, English Valleys, Iowa Valley, Liberty, Lisbon, Mt Vernon, Regina, Solon, West Branch, West High, and Williamsburg |
| 10/20 – 11/27 | Kalona Office 120 5th St, Kalona Will display Highland, Hillcrest Academy, Lone Tree, Mid-Prairie, and Washington |
10/27 – 11/3 | Wellman Office 229 8th Ave, Wellman Will display Highland, Hillcrest Academy, Lone Tree, Mid-Prairie, and Washington |
| 11/3 – 11/10 | Washington 2481 Hwy 92 E, Washington |