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Have A Coke...And A $20,000 Scholarship? Central Coast High School Chosen For Honors

A Central Coast high school student is probably drinking a Coke or two to celebrate a scholarship she just won.

Zoi Urban won a $20,000 scholarship from the soft drink company. The senior at Santa Maria’s Righetti High School was one of 150 winners from a pool of nearly 90,000 applicants for Coca-Cola scholarships.

The winners were chosen for the academic achievement and community involvement. Urban has a 4.4 GPA, volunteers with the Special Olympics, and tutors kids struggling in school.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.