SENATOR LIEBERMAN ANNOUNCES SERVICE ACADEMY NOMINATIONS FOR THE CLASS OF 2014

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) announced today that he is nominating 31 of Connecticut's finest students for admission to the United States Air Force, Military, Merchant Marine and Naval Academies for the Class of 2014.

“I am pleased to see another group of Connecticut’s young people with such a high level of intelligence, integrity, dedication, and leadership ability who strongly desire to serve their country. Each year it is continues to be difficult to pick only a select number of those exceptional Connecticut students who apply.  I am honored to nominate each of them to our service academies and I congratulate the nominees for their hard work culminating in this accomplishment. These academies ensure that our best and brightest get the necessary skills to lead our outstanding military men and women.”

This year over a hundred young people applied for nomination from all over the state.  The following lists of nominees have been forwarded by Senator Lieberman to the admissions offices of their respective academies:

MILITARY ACADEMY

William Bechtel – Fairfield
Fairfield Ludlowe High School

Gabriella Bermudez – Ridgefield
Ridgefield High School

Nicholas Dignacco - Sharon
Housatonic Valley Regional High School

Stephanie Eldridge – Amston
RHAM High School

Aaron Leopold – Avon
Avon High School

Scott Machcinski - Stamford
Canterbury School

Brandon Moore – Torrington
Avon Old Farms School

Sean Morrison – Coventry
Coventry High School

Brendan Obranski – Wilton
Wilton High School

James Theodos - Southbury
Pomperaug Regional High School

MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY

Justin Grebasch – Old Saybrook
Xavier High School

David Henry – Bristol
Oliver Wolcott Regional Vocation Technical School

Daniel Matthews – Avon
Avon High School

Thomas Nielsen – Middletown
Xavier High School

NAVAL ACADEMY

Jennifer Abbott – Wilton
Wilton High School

John Burns – New Milford
New Milford High School

Kristina Byrne – Old Greenwich
Greenwich High School

Lauren Clark – Granby
Granby Memorial High School

Andrew Golankiewicz – Sandy Hook
Fairfield College Prepatory School

Sean Grogan – Watertown
The Gunnery

Samuel Oat-Judge – Farmington
Farmington High School

Melissa Ratliff – Offutt AFB
Bellevue West High School

Thomas Rowland – Noank
Robert E. Fitch Senior High School

Margo Smutnick – Pomfret Center
Woodstock Academy

AIR FORCE ACADEMY

Joshua Alphonso – Danbury
Danbury High School

Michael Bolton – Shelton
Shelton High School

James Cavanaugh – Torrington
Torrington High School

Joshua Huertas – Bloomfield
Hartford Christian Academy

Sarah Mellville – Beacon Falls
Woodland Regional High School

Sean O’Briskie – Clinton
Morgan High School

Andrew Vliet – Manchester
Manchester High School