Christopher Columbus High School

A Catholic School for Young Men in the Marist Tradition since 1958
Student Life

Silver Knights

2023-24 Nominees

Columbus boasts the highest number of Silver Knight Award winners (28) among all private schools in Miami-Dade County, with 20 of these awards earned in the past decade. Over the last 11 years, our community has celebrated 30 honorable mentions and 20 Silver Knights, highlighting the exceptional efforts of our educators and the remarkable opportunities provided to our students!

List of 15 items.

  • Mitchel Corteguera

    ART

  • John-Barry Bertematti

    ATHLETICS

  • John Visconti

    BUSINESS

  • Dominic Gatto

    DIGITAL & INTERACTIVE MEDIA

  • Alexander Valcarcel

    DRAMA

  • Nicholas Diaz

    ENGLISH & LITERATURE

  • Mateo Silva

    GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP

  • Sebastian Broche

    JOURNALISM

  • Felipe Sanchez-Noguera

    MATH

  • Jovan Rojas

    MUSIC & DANCE

  • Evan Hartigan

    SCIENCE

  • Matteo Morett

    SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • James Sacher

    SPEECH

  • Lucas Artime

    VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL

  • Javier Diaz Alonso

    WORLD LANGUAGE

CCHS Past Winners

List of 28 items.

The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs. The purpose of this Awards program is to recognize outstanding students who have not only maintained good grades but have also unselfishly applied their special knowledge and talents to contribute significant service to their schools and communities. The Silver Knight Awards program was instituted at the Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight, past publisher of the Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner.
 
The program is open to high school seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA (unweighted) in public, private, and parochial schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Students may be nominated in 15 categories: Art, Athletics, Business, Drama, English & Literature, General Scholarship, Journalism, Mathematics, Music and Dance, New Media, Science, Social Science, Speech, Vocational-Technical and World Languages. Each school may nominate one student per category.
 
Nominees from all schools appear on a designated day to be interviewed by a panel of independent judges. Each panel of judges selects one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in that category. Names are not revealed until the Silver Knight Awards ceremony. Silver Knights receive $2,000, a Silver Knight statue and a medallion presented by American Airlines. The three Honorable Mentions are presented $500 and an engraved plaque.
Christopher Columbus High School | 3000 SW 87 Avenue | Miami, FL 33165 | (305) 223-5650
Brotherhood, Faith, and Scholarship define the Marist Brothers Catholic education at Christopher Columbus High School.  By making Jesus Christ known and loved and creating an inspiring academic and extracurricular environment, we prepare young men for higher learning and a life-long commitment to leadership and service through Gospel and Marist values.

Columbus is fully accredited by Cognia and is a member of the Marist Association of Secondary schools, the National Catholic Education Association and the Independent Schools of South Florida.