Young Alumni Achievement Award Recipients

2025 - Audrey Ernst, ’22 BS nursing, ’22 BS health care compliance and regulations

2024 - Kentaro Kawamori, ‘15 MBA

2023 - Vivek Kopparthi, ‘14 MS

2022 - Philip Oro ’10 BS

2020 - Anthony Robles ’11 BIS

2019 - Sky Kurtz

2018 - Sambo “Bo” Dul

2016 - Courtney Klein

2015 - Ryan Delaney '11 M.S.

2014 - Dr. Javier Cárdenas '99 B.A.E., M.D.

2011 - Amanda Borden-Cochran '03, Former Captain of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team, which earned the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games

2010 - Cody Friesen '00 B.S.E., Associate Professor of Mechanical Aerospace, Chemical and Materials Engineering; Co-founder of Fluidic Energy

2007 - Ed Koeneman '92, '94 M.S., Chief Operating Officer
Samantha Johnson

2006 - Israel Torres '94, Director

2005 - Andrew Ortiz '92, J.D. '98, M.P.A. '99, Project Manager
Max Wyman '79, MS '91, Ph.D. '94, Principal Scientist

2004 - Randy Nelson '90 Ph.D., President and Corporate Executive

2003 - Derrick Hall '91, Baseball Operations

2002 - Randall Howe '85, '88 J.D., Attorney

2001 - Gema Duarte Luna '84, Community Development

2000 - Mark D. Duplissis '92, '97 M.Ed., Educator

1999 - Alex P. Duhamel '87, Business Owner

1998 - Raul A. Monreal '95, Engineer

1997 - Gary L. Trujillo '83, Corporate Executive

1996 - Carolyn G. James '85, Opera Singer
Christina M. Mastrangelo '86, '90 M.S.

1995 - Eric J. Crown '84, Business Owner

1994 - Cynthia A. Minon '80, Business Owner and Civic Leader

1993 - James G. Blake '80, Attorney

1992 - Nicolette S. Lemmon '78, '83 M.B.A., Business Owner

1991 - Andrea F. Schaffell '81, Entertainment Executive
Nicloette S. Lemmons '92

1990 - Sanjay Kumar Nigam '78, Physician

1989 - Rachel A. Rosales '82, Opera Singer
Vada O. Manager '83, Vice President - Marketing