Cole Ritter

Cole Ritter is a seventeen-year-old high school senior at Southside High School. He has always been an outstanding student. Cole has a 4.375 GPA, mainly taking dual enrollment classes and scoring 32 on his ACT.

Cole is the youngest of two boys. His older brother, Brooks, graduated from college in the Spring of 2024. Both young men are artists and, when they were young, found inspiration in each other’s work. Both have won awards for drawing their beloved dog, Rocket. With this drawing, Cole also was the winner of the 2024 Congressional Art Competition for Louisiana’s Third District, and his artwork currently hangs in the Cannon Tunnel connecting the Cannon Building and the US Capital in Washington, D.C.

In addition to classes and his artwork, Cole has been active in his school’s chapters of BETA Club and National Honor Society, taking part in numerous charity events over the years.

Most recently, Cole was a finalist for Student of the Year for his graduating class of 2025.

He lives with his mom and dad in Youngsville, Louisiana, and hopes to study engineering or computer science at Louisiana State University beginning in the Fall of 2025.