2025 AWARDS EVENING – HONOUR AWARDS
HONOUR AWARDS
YOUNG WOMEN OF MERCY AWARDS are presented to students who display a strong commitment to community service and who demonstrate in their actions the Mercy ethos and College values.
2025 Townsville Past Students’ Association for a Young Woman of Mercy in Year 7
Margaret Baker
2025 Townsville Past Students’ Association for a Young Woman of Mercy in Year 8
Maya Whelan
2025 Sr Helen Mary Peters Award for a Young Woman of Mercy in Year 9
Maggie Galletly & Alphonsa Sophy-Sino
2025 Sisters of Mercy Bursary for a Young Woman of Mercy in Year 10
Joanofarc Fernandes
2025 Mater Hospital Award for a Young Woman of Mercy in Year 11
Freya Blacklock
ADF LONG TAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK AWARDS recognise students who demonstrate leadership and teamwork within both the school and the broader local community. They also recognise those who display strong values, such as doing one’s best, respect for others and “mateship”; characteristics that are integral to Australian society.
2025 ADF Long Tan Youth Leadership and Teamwork Awards
Year 10 – Eden Carfoot
Year 12 – Maddison O’Neill
ADF FUTURE INNOVATORS AWARDS are presented to students who demonstrate innovation and a high-level of motivation in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics learning areas.
2025 ADF Future Innovators Awards
Year 10 – Deona Emmanuel
Year 12 – Sienna Stockham
JCU SHIELDS for Years 7 through to 12 acknowledge all round achievement and are awarded to students who exhibit the greatest academic achievement or progress in their studies, exemplify a commitment to building the economic and social fabric of their community especially in Regional Australia and demonstrate resilience and perseverance in their studies or extracurricular accomplishments.
2025 JCU Shield for Year 7 – Piper Brockie
2025 JCU Shield for Year 8 – Lillian Ponti
2025 JCU Shield for Year 9 – Mai Ly Nguyen-Wood
2025 JCU Shield for Year 10 – Mia Populin
2025 JCU Shield for Year 11 – Bridget Baxter
2025 JCU Shield for Year 12 – Renisha Abraham
The JCU RISING STAR SCHOLARSHIP recognises a student’s consistently high level of academic achievement, someone who preferences JCU and has a commitment to regional Australia. This includes a $10,000 scholarship to James Cook University.
2025 JCU Rising Star Scholarship – Isabelle Gilboy
MEMBER FOR TOWNSVILLE YEAR 11 AND 12 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING EXCELLENCE AWARDS recognise outstanding effort, commitment and achievement by a vocational student on an Alternative Pathway completing a course of study leading to a nationally recognised qualification.
2025 Member for Townsville Year 11 Vocational Education & Training Excellence Award
Krystal Kalipa
2025 Member for Townsville Year 12 Vocational Education & Training Excellence Award
Katija Wregg
The EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR PERFORMING ARTS is presented to a student who reflects the early potential and enthusiasm for the Performing Arts. This student actively participates in performances throughout the year and is an enthusiastic and productive member.
2025 Excellence Award for Performing Arts
Mia Populin
The EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR VISUAL ART is presented to a junior creative student who consistently exhibits skilful exploration and sustained commitment in their artistic endeavours.
2025 Excellence Award for Visual Art
Evie Cavanagh
The EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR MUSIC is presented to a junior student who demonstrates emerging musical aptitude and contributions to music in their junior years.
2025 Excellence Award for Music
Zoe Leon
The DONNA AHLERS DRAMATIC ARTS AWARD is presented to a student who demonstrates a commitment to and personal interest in the Dramatic Arts, through the study of Drama as a subject and actively participating in other performance activities such as liturgies, Drama Club, workshops, Mulkadee, the Combined Schools’ Musical or other local community theatre performances, concerts and/or Eisteddfods. The awardee also demonstrates strong leadership skills and a sense of teamwork by working as an enthusiastic and productive member of the College Dramatic Arts program.
2025 Donna Ahlers Dramatic Arts Award
Amelia Betcher
The FLOURISH AWARD FOR VISUAL ART is presented to a student who has demonstrated a commitment to and achieved excellence in Visual Art, by not only studying Visual Art or Visual Art in Practice as a subject, but also actively participating in community led exhibitions, activities and competitions. The Flourish recipient also demonstrates a tenacious approach to the visual art making process and has pushed boundaries in the production of their body of work.
2025 Flourish Award For Visual Art
Bella Mason
The OSTINATA AWARD FOR MUSIC EXCELLENCE is presented to a student who demonstrates music excellence through a commitment to and personal interest in Vocal or Instrumental Music through the study of Music as a subject and actively participating in other performance activities such as the Combined Schools’ Musical, liturgies, State or Australian Honours Program workshops, Mulkadee, or other local community performances, concerts and/or Eisteddfods. The awardee also demonstrates strong leadership skills and a sense of teamwork by working as an enthusiastic and productive member of the College Music program.
2025 Ostinata Award for Music Excellence
Amelia Betcher
The MAYBELLE STIRLING BURSARY FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS is awarded to a student who has achieved excellence in the Arts and has continued to demonstrate a commitment to her studies in the Arts.
2025 Maybelle Stirling Bursary for Excellence in the Arts
Elizabeth Ferfolja Salmon
The JANIS PARKER MEMORIAL AWARD is awarded to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student within our College community who shows leadership qualities, academic effort and involvement in College activities.
2025 Janis Parker Memorial Award
Hollie Parkes
The RAE COLE MEMORIAL AWARD FOR JUNIOR SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR is presented to a junior student who has demonstrated excellent participation in the College’s sporting teams and programs.
2025 Rae Cole Memorial Award for Junior Sportswoman of the Year
Margaret Baker
The PAVIA FAMILY AWARD FOR SENIOR SPORTSWOMAN OF THE YEAR is presented to the senior student who has demonstrated excellent participation and representation in the College’s sporting teams.
2025 Pavia Family Award for Senior Sportswoman of the Year
Hollie Parkes
The CATHERINE McAULEY AWARD FOR COMMITMENT is presented to a Year 12 student who does not hold a badged leadership position but has demonstrated a consistent effort across all areas of the College.
2025 Catherine McAuley Award for Commitment
Sienna Stockham
The WENDY BRADRIDGE AWARD FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE is presented to a student who has demonstrated leadership and commitment to the values of the Catholic school within the College community.
2025 Wendy Bradridge Award for Community Service
Maddison O’Neill
The DEUS CARITAS EST AWARD recognises loving service of a young person lived out with a faith conviction who displays incredible generosity of spirit towards all those they meet.
2025 Deus Caritas Est Award
Vienna Burke
The IVANA BILIC MEMORIAL AWARD FOR COMPASSIONATE LEADERSHIP is presented to a student who has demonstrated leadership and an attitude of respect and support for the Catholic ethos of the school.
2025 Ivana Bilic Memorial Award for Compassionate Leadership
Saskia Tresch
