Champion’s Parra named National Merit finalist

BOERNE — Champion High School senior Nicolas Parra has been named a National Merit Scholarship Finalist.

Parra is one of just 15,000 students, representing less than 1% of U.S. high school graduating seniors, to receive the distinction.

Parra is involved with many activities and services on and off campus. He is president of Spanish National Honor Society, the National Honor Society, drum major for the Mighty Charger Band and is a member of the student council leadership committee He is a role model for his fellow classmates helping them with various projects throughout the school year, Bryan Benway, Boerne ISD director of communications, said of Parra.