Hundreds of Kalamazoo College students were recognized Friday, November 7, during the annual Honors Day Convocation for excellence in academics and leadership. Students were recognized in six divisions: Fine Arts; Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures; Humanities; Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Social Sciences; and Physical Education. Recipients of prestigious scholarships were recognized, as were members of national honor societies and students who received special Kalamazoo College awards. Student athletes and teams who won Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association awards also were honored. Many of the awards presented are based on outstanding performance during the previous academic year. The students receiving Honors Day awards or recognition are listed below.
FINE ARTS DIVISION
Brian Gougeon ’81 Prize in Art
- John Brewer
- Sara Bush
The Margaret Upton Prize in Music
- Maya Davis
Charles Cooper Award in Fine Arts
- Lena Barret
- James Hauke
Fan E. Sherwood Memorial Prize
- Bernice Mike
Theatre Arts First-Year Student Award
- Maya Davis
- Sebastian Nelson
DIVISION OF MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
LeGrand Copley Prize in French
- Jessica Forbis
Hardy Fuchs Award
- Sara Bush
- Maren Palmer
Margo Light Award
- Johe Newton Johnson
Department of Spanish Language and Literatures Prize
- Sarah Guerrero Gorostieta
- Jay Hernandez
Clara H. Buckley Prize for Excellence in Latin
- Eleanor Campion
- Sally Eggleston
Classics Department Prize in Greek
- Aubrey Benson
Provost’s Prize in Classics
- Sally Eggleston
HUMANITIES DIVISION
O.M. Allen Prize in English
- Sarah Guerrero Gorostieta
John B. Wickstrom Prize in History
- Brit Inman
- Aliah Mohmand
Department of Philosophy Prize
- Jessica Forbis
- Cecilia Gray
- Arden Schultz
L.J. and Eva (“Gibbie”) Hemmes Memorial Prize in Philosophy
- Tavi Butki
- Jessica Forbis
NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS DIVISION
Winifred Peake Jones Prize in Biology
- Josephine Belsky
- Chloe Brown
- Avery Davis
Department of Chemistry Prize
- Linda Chukwu
- Carter Haley
- May Pasillas
First-Year Chemistry Award
- Teige Bredin
- Caroline Johnson
- Katherine Saurez
Lemuel F. Smith Award
- William Tocco
Computer Science Prize
- Lena Barrett
- Alexander Russell
First-Year Mathematics Award
- Ayako Jurgle
Thomas O. Walton Prize in Mathematics
- Ingrid Gardner
- Lauren MacKersie
- Juniper Pasternak
- Benjamin Whitsett
Cooper Prize in Physics
- Nathan Gleason
- Charles Gordon
- Caroline Johnson
- Katelyn Steinbrecher
- Katherine Suarez
SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION
Departmental Prize in Anthropology and Sociology
- Leila Bank
- Veda Shukla
William G. Howard Prize in Political Science
- Bo Chambers
William G. Howard Memorial Prize in Economics and Business
- Jordan Doyle
C. Wallace Lawrence Prize in Business
- Jack Duggins
- Matthew Matuza
C. Wallace Lawrence Prize in Economics
- Renzo Palomino Caceres
- Maya Clarren
Irene and S. Kyle Morris Prize
- Callie Abair
- Jackson Keefer
Department of Psychology First-Year Student Prize
- Kay Hanson
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DIVISION
Division of Physical Education Prize
- Cameron Crosby
- Addison Lyons
Lauren Rosenthal ’13 Memorial Prize
- Eleanor Bernas
Maggie Wardle ’02 Prize
- Maggie Westra
COLLEGE AWARDS
Henry ’36 and Inez Brown Prize
- Jaylen Bowles-Swain
- John Bungart
- Abbie Caza
- Ella Spooner
Davis United World College Scholar
- Soyeon Jin
HEYL SCHOLARS: Class of 2029
- Methmi Amaratunga
- Stephanie Castillo
- Eiden Jonaitis
- Dewen Luo-Li
- Gwendolyn MacEwen
- Kaljona Thaumanavar
POSSE SCHOLARS: Class of 2029
- Elyzet Alfaro
- Sarah Baker
- Marley Bell
- Zeina Coreas
- Lavar Ganther
- Marcus Lloyd
- Vex Maldonado
- Sophia Mes
- Zaira Ramirez
- Coltrane Randolph
- Jordan Rivas
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARS: Class of 2029
- Drew Abbott
SLAVA-CICA AND SPASA VOYNOVICH SCHOLARS
- Olivia Schleede
ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA: Class of 2029
Alpha Lambda Delta is a national honor society that recognizes excellence in academic achievement during the first college year. To be eligible for membership, students must rank in the top 20% of their class and earn a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5 during the first year. The students below are members of the Class of 2029 who have met or exceeded those benchmarks and have been invited to join the Kalamazoo College Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta.
- Leila Bank
- Grace Barber
- Josephine Belsky
- Derek Blackwell
- Teige Bredin
- John Brewer
- Ellie Britt
- Chloe Brown
- Ava Buccafurri
- Sara Bush
- Haziel Cerroblanco
- Bo Chambers
- Brendan Clinard
- Toby Comensoli
- Cameron Crosby
- Avery Davis
- Maya Davis
- Francis Ernzen
- Max Feliks
- Mathias Florian
- Jessica Forbis
- Nathan Gleason
- Brizza Gonzalez
- Cole Grupenhoff
- Sarah Guerrero Gorostieta
- Carter Haley
- Britt Inman
- Weslee Innes
- Caroline Johnson
- Ayako Jurgle
- Jackson Keefer
- Ava King
- Shay Kruse
- Katelyn Long
- Mairead Lynch
- Jay McDaniel
- Jacey Merkle
- Aliah Mohmand
- Meena Moritz
- Sebastian Nelson
- Renzo Palomino Caceres
- Mario Pomorski
- Brody Quinn
- Cory Rapp
- Julia Reisor
- Wyatt Ruppenthal
- McKenna Ryan-Elbert
- Simon Sawyer
- Halen Sherwood
- Veda Shukla
- Katelyn Steinbrecher
- Calvin Strader
- Katherine Suarez
- Nora Zemlick
FINE ARTS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
- Annice Bellows
- Mag Burkander
- Emmett Carlson
- Elliot Corpuz
- Sophia Deguzman
- Ale Demea
- Desmond Distel
- Molly Duffy
- Kellen Fisher
- Ana Lucia Galarreta
- Ryan Goodrich
- Lana Gouin-Hart
- Sofia Gross
- Sarah Hagan
- Abram Haynes
- Scarlett Hosner
- Aelitta Kazarov
- Genevieve Nagel
- Alessi Neder
- Sam Pattison
- Benjamin Perry
- Ellison Redwine
- Alice Seigner
- Saba Sikharulidze
- Ana Slouber
- Laurel Stowers
- Zara Strauss
- Chloe Stuckey
- Nolan Surach
- Mathias Takacs
- Arielle Tenner
- Lauren Thompson
- Jey Trebley
MIAA AWARDS
These teams earned the 2024–25 MIAA Team GPA Award for achieving a 3.300 or better grade point average for the entire academic year.
- Baseball
- Men’s Basketball
- Men’s Golf
- Men’s Lacrosse
- Men’s Soccer
- Men’s Swimming & Diving
- Men’s Tennis
- Women’s Basketball
- Women’s Cross Country
- Women’s Golf
- Women’s Lacrosse
- Women’s Soccer
- Softball
- Women’s Swimming & Diving
- Women’s Tennis
- Volleyball
MIAA ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL: Student Athletes 2024–25
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association each year honors students at MIAA-member colleges who achieve in the classroom and in athletic competition. Students need to be a letterwinner in a varsity sport and maintain at least a 3.5 grade-point average for the year.
A
- Callie Abair
- Fuzail Ahmed
- Isaac Ahn
- Maya Alkema
- Adnan Alousi
- Mahmoud Alsafadi
- Emiliano Alvarado Rescala
- Paige Anderson
- Eleanor Andrews
- Jeremy Ardshahi
- Peyton Arendsen
B
- Poppy Balkema
- Carter Bandemer
- Grace Barber
- Joseph Basil
- Conner Bell
- Eleanor Bernas
- Derek Blackwell
- Douglas Blackwood
- Eleni Bougioukou
- Jaylen Bowles-Swain
- Ella Boyea
- Teige Bredin
- Ellie Britt
- Lukas Broadsword
- Anna Buck
- Tavi Butki
- Zachary Butters
C
- Raymond Cargill
- Samantha Carpentier
- Isabella Caza
- Abigail Caza
- Trustin Christopher
- Nathaniel Clark
- Thomas Clark
- Logan Coller
- Jordan Cook
- Josee Cooke
- Cate Cotter
- Derek Courtney
- Sebastian Courtright
- Lucy Cripe
- Mia Crites
- Cameron Crosby
- Chase Cummins
D
- James Dailey
- Erik Danielson
- Ethan Daugherty
- Jacob Davis
- Carson Deines
- Ethan DeNeen
- Alexander Di Dio
- Taylor Dinda-Albright
- Jordan Doyle
- Jack Duggins
E
- Alden Ehrhardt
- Rebecca Elias
- Elise Elliot
- Chad Ewing
- Bradley Eziuka
F
- Sara Finks
- Alex Fleming
- Jordan Flink
- David Fooy
- Jessica Forbis
- Landrie Fridsma
G
- Dillon Gacki
- William Geiger
- Mallory Gentry
- Logan Gillis
- Makala Goddard
- Lukas Graff
- Charles Graves
- Lillian Grelak
- Kaitlyn Grice
- Cole Grupenhoff
H
- Sydney Hagaman
- Alison Hankins
- Colten Hansen
- Madeline Hanulcik
- Sophie Hartl
- Pauline Hawkes
- Zachary Heikka
- Gerardo Herrera-Sanchez
- Maya Hester
- Alyssa Hinkley
- Garrick Hohm
- Timothy Hollern
- Ronin Honda
- Jaelyn Horn
- Tyler Houle
- Gavin Houtkooper
- Ethan Huebsch
- Alek Hultberg
- Kennedy Hynde
I
- Carson Ihrke
- Macy Ivins
J
- Nolan Jannenga
- Halley Johnson
K
- Seth Keana
- Jackson Keefer
- Alyson Kemery
- Samuel King
- Ava King
- Alexander Kish
- Kathryn Klahorst
- Mart Klenke
- Toni Koshmider
- Julia Kozal
- Daryn Krause
- Jack Kreckman
L
- Jordon Larco
- Braeden Lavis
- Annmarie Lawrence
- Maya Lee
- Aidan Liedeke
- Alexander Ligman
- Addison Lyons
M
- Kyler Maiorana
- Natalie Maki
- Larson Makie
- Alexandria Mason
- Matthew Matuza
- Zachary Maurice
- Benjamin Maurice
- Grace McGlynn
- MacKale McGuire
- Jacey Merkle
- Rachel Meston
- Gabriel Meyers
- Brittany Miller
- Marin Miroslavich
- Jackson Mitchell
- Mary Ellen Muenzenmaier
- Elizabeth Muenzenmaier
- Andrew Munger
N
- Mackenzie Newhall
- Robert Newland
- Emma Newlove
- Maeve Nolan
- Allison Nutt
O
- Gabriel Olivier
- Nicholas Olmeda
- Tyler Omness
P
- Brennan Pannucci
- Alex Pepin
- Patrick Perez
- William Plesscher
- Evan Pollens-Voigt
- Mario Pomorski
- Juliana Pullen
Q
- Brody Quinn
R
- Elizabeth Rachiele
- Spencer Rasmussen
- Liam Regan
- Keegan Reynolds
- Jaycee Rider
- Cody Rigley
- Sheldon Riley
- Donovan Rinehart
- Amelia Rooks
- Luke Rop
- Charlotte Ruiter
- Wyatt Ruppenthal
S
- Zenaida Sackett
- Simon Sawyer
- Cecilia Schihl
- Leo Schinker
- Annika Schnell
- Sophia Schwartz
- Eric Sheppard
- Colby Skinner
- Dawson Skupin
- Jillian Smith
- Jonah Spates
- Ella Spooner
- Adam Stapleton
- David Stechow
- Jacquelyn Stoddard
- Grace Sweet
T
- Levi Thomas
- William Thomas
- Vincent Tran
V
- Anthony Valade
- Gavin Van Kampen
- Lucy Vandemark
- Hannah Vander Lugt
- Lauren Vanderstelt
- Tyler Vanderzanden
- Cameron VanGalder
- Mitchel VanGalder
W
- Annslee Ware
- Riley Weber
- Jordan Wesaw
- Ava Williams
- Gretchen Wilson
- Alexander Winter
- Darius Wright
Y
- Hailey Yoder