“I am proud that so many exceptional students from our state are willing to serve our country through military service,” said Stabenow. “These individuals have demonstrated their excellence in and out of the classroom, and I am confident that they will represent Michigan well.”

Students seeking appointment to a service academy must first obtain the nomination of their U.S. Senator, their U.S. Representative or the President. Students nominated by Stabenow’s office went through a competitive application process that included interviews by community leaders. Now that the students have been nominated, they must await acceptance for admission by the academy to which they have applied.

The following students have been nominated by Senator Stabenow to a military academy:

Southeast Michigan:

United States Military Academy (Army)
• Timothy Wyderko (West Bloomfield)
• Dilara Uskup (Southfield)
• Clark Yuan (Troy)
• Matthew Stelmach (Lake Orion)
• Gina Rotondo (Plymouth)
• Samuel Ellis (Farmington Hills)

United States Naval Academy
• James Pearson (Bloomfield Hills)
• Allan Charles (West Bloomfield)
• Mark Butler (Commerce)
• Robert Bell (Commerce Twp)
• Timothy Boll (Grosse Pointe Park)
• Tyler Boston (Clarkston)
• Timothy Shield (Grosse Pointe Park)

United States Air Force Academy
• Eric Gilpatrick (Trenton)
• Benjamin Misra (Rochester)
• Matthew Clinard (Novi)
• Joseph Martin (Carelton)
• Meghan Vernier (Fair Haven)

United States Merchant Marine Academy
• David Michael Lew (Bloomfield Hills)
• Stetson Robinson (Southfield)
• Brett Kroll (Oakland)

Flint/Tri-Cities:

United States Naval Academy
• Austin Adcock (Owosso)
• Joshua Engle (Flint)

United States Air Force Academy
• Patrick Burks (Flushing)

Mid-Michigan:

United States Military Academy (Army)
• Sara Lehman (St. Johns)
• Adam Barsuhn (Jackson)

United States Naval Academy
• Carl Steffer (Brighton)
• Jonathan Germane (Hartland)
• Stephanie Liederbach (Ypsilanti)
• Rachel Thomas (Ann Arbor

United States Air Force Academy
• Michael Hauser (Mason)
• Alexander Hess (Dexter)
• Robert Nummer (Ionia)

United States Merchant Marine Academy
• Alex Grice (East Lansing)

Western Michigan:

United States Military Academy (Army)
• Adam Campbell (Otsego)
• Chelsea Prahl (Greenville)

United States Naval Academy
• Cameron Ross Zbikowski (Grandville)
• Andre Dompierre (Ada)
• Megan Wolowicz (Howard City)

United States Air Force
• Sean McGee (Grand Rapids)
• Samantha Smith (West Olive)
• Michael Smith (Jenison)
• Megumi Vanderwaal (Grand Rapids)
• Brian Fricke (Kalamazoo)

United States Merchant Marine Academy
• Rebecca Wallace (Plainwell)
• Thomas Thornton (Sand Lake)
• Ashleigh Seiko (Marshall)

Northern Michigan:

United States Naval Academy
• David Yenior (Sterling)
• Emma Stone (Kewadin)
• Rachel Gebauer (Ossineke)

United States Merchant Marine Academy
• Andrew Buday (Williamsburg)
• Jason Steimel (Suttons Bay)

Upper Peninsula:

United States Naval Academy
• Ethan Parker (Sault Sainte Marie)
• Emily Conard (Iron Mountain)
• Scott Giles (Manistique)