AXA Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of financial services for consumers and businesses, has announced that Camrynn Genda, a high school senior attending Clarke County High School in Berryville, is the Virginia winner of the 2009 AXA Achievement Scholarship in association with U.S. News & World Report.

Under the AXA Achievement Scholarship program, Genda is one of 52 students – one from each state, plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico – that have been awarded scholarships of $10,000.

The announcement was made by Mark Swartz CFP, ChFC, CLU, Executive Vice President of AXA Advisors' Northern division.

All scholarship recipients – known as AXA Achievers – will be highlighted on the U.S. News & World Report website, www.usnews.com, through May 28, 2009, and featured in the magazine's May 2009 Career/Education Guide issue.

The scholarship program is administered by Scholarship Management Services, a program of Scholarship America, one of the nation's largest nonprofit private sector and educational support organizations. All of the scholarship recipients are graduating high school seniors who demonstrated ambition and drive, determination to set and reach goals and the ability to succeed in college.

Genda founded a volunteer organization called Music on Wheels to provide the gift of song and music to the elderly. She recruited singers and musicians from grades K-12 and coordinated visits to various nursing homes in her community. She is a member of the Clarke County HS swim team, 4H Naturalist Club and the Young Ambassadors Music Team.