Distinguished Finalist

Alexandra Sexton, 17, of Knoxville, Tenn., a senior at Farragut High School, is an active volunteer at both her church, where she is a youth camp leader and member of a service club, and at her school, where she tutors and mentors young students through her roles in student government and the National Honor Society. Alexandra also stepped up this year to take over an event that her brother founded called "Hoops for Hope," for which she coordinated a fun-filled day of basketball for children with Down syndrome and helped to raise money for the Down Syndrome Awareness Group.