Rockingham County Schools News Release • May 29, 2025
Rockingham County Schools is proud to recognize the outstanding achievements and bright futures of the Class of 2025. In this special Senior Spotlight series, Rockingham County Schools highlight students from McMichael High School who have demonstrated excellence, leadership, resilience, and school spirit throughout their high school journey.
Each student featured in these spotlights shares their unique story, accomplishments, and plans for the future. We’re honored to help celebrate their success and share these personal profiles with our community.
Be sure to scroll through the full spotlight to see all of this year’s inspiring seniors from McMichael High School.
Luke Manzi
Luke Manzi is a friendly, polite student who has always done well in all his courses and had excellent attendance while working multiple jobs to support himself. In June of 2024, he joined Pine Hall Brick as a RockATOP Pre-Apprentice, moving to full Apprenticeship in August of 2024. In December of 2024, Luke was able to be a McMichael High School Early Graduate and is now attending RCC and working full-time at Ruger as a RockATOP Apprentice. He is training to be a Technician which requires going in at 4:30am and working 12-hour shifts but he does so with a great attitude. We are proud of Luke’s perseverance and determination to overcome obstacles and be successful in all he does.
Kyosha Dalton
Kyosha Dalton exemplifies the characteristics of good character and citizenship. To demonstrate her citizenship and political action, while Kyosha was a student in AP Environmental Science class a school Environmental Science Club was formed. She was elected president and has demonstrated great leadership and effective communication. The club has raised money for local environmental groups through a student coin collection competition and held a reuse/recycle yard sale. The club has volunteered time and effort for school clean-up, at the local animal shelter, and participated in a local art project. Kyosha has organized club meetings and planned club events including field trips in her role as president. Kyosha cares deeply about the political process and shows that through her participation. Kyosha embodies honesty, integrity, and inclusiveness as well. During lab assignments she would help share her knowledge with others and keep the data collection without bias keeping the validity of the experiment. She participated in the district science fair. She is a member of the Beta Club which requires service hours each year as well. While president of the Environmental Science Club she has made sure to include all grade levels and is open to any student’s ideas. Kyosha is a detailed oriented individual and proudly represents McMichael High School during her present and future endeavors.
Maddison Sola
Maddie Sola has really grown as a student, an artist, and as a young woman. Despite difficult trials and troubles that have arisen in her life these past few years, she faces them head on with grace and a maturity beyond her years. Maddie continues to thrive in her academics and art. Lately, Maddie has been working on a large-scale mural full of optimistic messages in one of our classrooms. This mural will be her lasting mark on McMichael and will be a constant reminder of positivity.
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