Hundreds of Kalamazoo College students were recognized Friday, November 6, 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 were also 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
- Jimena Conchos
- Jay Eisendrath
The Margaret Upton Prize in Music
- Cameron Hathaway
Charles Cooper Award in Fine Arts
- Victoria Burnham
Fan E. Sherwood Memorial Prize
- Weslee Innes
- Akaash Raghunath
Theatre Arts First-Year Student Award
- Abram Haynes
- Amelia Saxton
MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES DIVISION
LeGrand Copley Prize in French
- Jey Trebley
- Jillian Whitton
Hardy Fuchs Award
- Kai Ellison-Batt
- Sam Pattison
Margo Light Award
- Ian Davis
Department of Spanish Language and Literatures Prize
- Maximus Betten
- Arielle Tenner
Clara H. Buckley Prize for Excellence in Latin
- Clara Siefke
East Asian Studies Language Achievement Award
- Alexandra McIntyre
- Rachel Ribaudo
HUMANITIES DIVISION
O.M. Allen Prize in English
- Bailey Poort
John B. Wickstrom Prize in History
- Kai Ellison-Batt
- Lauren Thompson
Department of Philosophy Prize
- Liam Casey-McFall
- Jessica Forbis
L.J. and Eva (“Gibbie”) Hemmes Memorial Prize in Philosophy
- Liam Casey-McFall
- Isaac Miles
- Jaiden Petersen
- Rebekah Tate
NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS DIVISION
Winifred Peake Jones Prize in Biology
- Fletcher Fahling
- Ella Hanley
- Audrey Horton
- Dewen Luo-Li
Department of Chemistry Prize
- Alexis Gross
- Jair Obando
- Jillian Whitton
First-Year Chemistry Award
- Methmi Amaratunga
- Maximus Betten
- Simran Magnan
Lemuel F. Smith Award
- Jason Krawczyk
Computer Science Prize
- Sophia Deguzman
- Benjamin Ebner
First-Year Mathematics Award
- Lucas Charboneau
Thomas O. Walton Prize in Mathematics
- Ayako Jurgle
- Tobias Peters
Cooper Prize in Physics
- Maximus Betten
- Dewen Luo-Li
- Laurel Stowers
SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION
Departmental Prize in Anthropology and Sociology
- Riley Allen
- Gary Jones
William G. Howard Prize in Political Science
- Abram Haynes
C. Wallace Lawrence Prize in Business
- Isaac Ahn
- Jackson Keefer
C. Wallace Lawrence Prize in Economics
- Brizza Gonzalez
- Renzo Palomino Caceres
Irene and S. Kyle Morris Prize
- Rachel Hursey
- Zander Nash
Department of Psychology First-Year Student Prize
- Tess Peters
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DIVSION
Division of Physical Education Prize
- Zander Nash
- London Start
Lauren Rosenthal ’13 Memorial Prize
- Savannah Chapie
Maggie Wardle ’02 Prize
- Alexis Gross
COLLEGE AWARDS
Henry ’36 and Inez Brown Prize
- Savannah Chapie
- Landrie Fridsma
- Ruby Hogan
- Nolan Jannenga
- Jillian Smith
- Jordan Wesaw
HEYL SCHOLARS
Class of 2030
- Simon Beougher
- Maria Canfield
- Iris Goldstein
- Rowan Hagenbuch
- Isaac Patrick
- William Valade
POSSE SCHOLARS
Class of 2030
- Kaylene (Quinn) O. Abella
- Kingjordan Ashby
- Julian Garcia
- Luis E. Gomez-Guirola
- Natalie S. Parrino
- Nancy Pineda Quinones
- Isyss S. Pineda Rivero
- Flora-Jac Saldaña
- Abel Apostol C. Yabu
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.
- Maxwell Burg
- Mag Burkander
- Stephanie Castillo
- Colby Connor
- Zeina Coreas
- Ryan Dant
- Ian Davis
- Sophia Deguzman
- Maya Delaney
- Abram Derksen
- Noah Devries
- Benjamin Ebner
- Kai Ellison-Batt
- Fletcher Fahling
- Harper Gorman
- Alexis Gross
- Sofia Gross
- Ella Hanley
- Abram Haynes
- Layla Hickman
- June Hobson
- Audrey Horton
- Rachel Hursey
- Abigail Hutchison
- Nora Iapichino
- Eiden Jonaitis
- Gary Jones
- Gretje Kooistra-Collar
- Jacob Lovy
- Dewen Luo-Li
- Simran Magnan
- Vex Maldonado
- Ryenn McRell
- Madelyn Miller
- Grace Murphy
- Genevieve Nagel
- Zander Nash
- Calvin Nyeholt
- Gyuri Park
- Sam Pattison
- Tess Peters
- Bailey Poort
- Zaira Ramirez
- Rachel Ribaudo
- Kearsten Schultz
- DJ Sheibar
- Saba Sikharulidze
- Morgan Smith
- Gavin Stewart
- Laurel Stowers
- Arielle Tenner
- Lauren Thompson
- Jey Trebley
- Benjamin Vansumeren
- Elijah Vue
- Connor Walters
- Jillian Whitton
- Sophia Wrzesinski
FINE ARTS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
- Samantha Allen
- Katherine Aupperlee
- Olive Ballard
- Cambrie Bencik
- Ariel Bennett
- Joseph Boshoven
- Nico Brannock
- Claire DeForest
- Nolan Flaga
- Blake Gaulzetti
- Evelyn Goll
- Maya Kahn
- Matilda Koprowski
- Katelyn Kumon
- Drew Kuntz
- Chloe Lauderback
- Sawyer Lenon
- Alyssa McCaskey
- Isaias Mercado
- William Mitchell
- Rebecca Mojares
- Miguel Monforte
- Penelope Nicholas
- Gabriela Nielsen
- Eliana O’Connor
- Audrey Olmsted
- Anaka Perry
- Raymond Peterson
- Malik Petty
- Shyla Pierce
- Anna Piller
- Sophia Pinho
- Evie Popovits
- Kate Posey
- Ola Rominski
- Rachel Royer-Thompson
- Nico Scorsone
- Kelly Torres-Uresti
- Maximilian Watkins
- Amelia Windeler
- Julia Zolenski
MIAA AWARDS
These teams earned the 2025–26 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 Cross Country
- Men’s Golf
- Men’s Indoor Track & Field
- Men’s Outdoor Track & Field
- Men’s Swimming & Diving
- Men’s Tennis
- Women’s Basketball
- Women’s Cross Country
- Women’s Golf
- Women’s Indoor Track & Field
- Women’s Lacrosse
- Women’s Outdoor Track & Field
- Softball
- Women’s Soccer
- Women’s Swimming & Diving
- Women’s Tennis
- Volleyball
MIAA ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL
Student Athletes 2025–26
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 letter winner in a varsity sport and maintain at least a 3.5 grade point average for the year.
- Callie Abair
- Drew Abbott
- Robert Ahlgren
- Umair Ahmed
- Isaac Ahn
- Maya Alkema
- Mahmoud Alsafadi
- Haresh Anand
- Eleanor Andrews
- Camden Arndt
- Olivia Bagwell
- Bryce Balabuch
- Poppy Balkema
- Carter Bandemer
- Grace Barber
- Joseph Basil
- Conner Bell
- Annice Bellows
- Eleanor Bernas
- Gurnav Jeet Singh Bhatia
- Derek Blackwell
- Douglas Blackwood
- Tate Bless
- Annaliese Bol
- Trey Bolling
- Brian Bolvari
- Eleni Bougioukou
- Juliette Bournay
- Jaylen Bowles-Swain
- Ella Boyea
- Teige Bredin
- Georgia Brennaman
- Ellie Britt
- Connor Brown
- John Bungart
- Maxwell Burg
- Luke Burzynski
- Ava Butera
- Erendira Cabrera
- Raymond Cargill
- Caleb Caul
- Abigail Caza
- Savannah Chapie
- Trustin Christopher
- Parker Ciurla
- Thomas Clark
- Caleb Coates
- Logan Coller
- Colby Connor
- Cate Cotter
- Sebastian Courtright
- Henry Cox
- Agustin Creamer
- Mia Crites
- Cameron Crosby
- Kieran Crossley
- Courtney Cutler
- James Dailey
- Ethan Daugherty
- Sophia Deguzman
- Abram Derksen
- Reed Dixon
- Jordan Doyle
- Jack Duggins
- Gwyneth Dunaway
- Aidan Durst
- Elise Elliot
- Zachary Emmer
- Ryan Everham
- Alexander Fenkell
- Sara Finks
- Alex Fleming
- Jessica Forbis
- Drew Fortino
- Landrie Fridsma
- Dillon Gacki
- William Geiger
- Lukas Graff
- Charles Graves
- Adam Green
- Alexis Gross
- Cole Grupenhoff
- Andrew Habel
- Jack Hackwell
- Ethan Hall
- Lucas Hanifan
- Ella Hanley
- McKinley Hanninen
- Colten Hansen
- Madeline Hanulcik
- Sophie Hartl
- Pauline Hawkes
- Jacob Hazlewood
- Zachary Heikka
- Gerardo Herrera-Sanchez
- Alyssa Hinkley
- Ruby Hogan
- Lauren Holcomb
- Maren Holcomb
- Timothy Hollern
- Ronin Honda
- Scarlett Hosner
- Ethan Huebsch
- Alek Hultberg
- Rachel Hursey
- Kennedy Hynde
- Carson Ihrke
- Jackson Isaacs
- Macy Ivins
- Jackson Janderwski
- Nolan Jannenga
- Hayden Johnston
- Eiden Jonaitis
- Gary Jones
- Elizabeth Jones
- Isabelle Kastel
- John Kaul
- Jackson Keefer
- Parker Keim
- Soussana Kimbouris
- Samuel King
- Ava King
- Kendyl Kirshman
- Kathryn Klahorst
- Connor Kouki
- Julia Kozal
- Daryn Krause
- Jack Kreckman
- Aubrey Laffoon
- Braydon Ledin
- Maya Lee
- Aidan Liedeke
- Alexander Ligman
- Peja Liles
- Logan Lockhart
- Addison Lyons
- Simran Magnan
- Kyler Maiorana
- Larson Makie
- Alexandria Mason
- Matthew Matuza
- Zachary Maurice
- Benjamin Maurice
- Lily May
- Allison Mayer
- Alyssa McNally
- Ryenn McRell
- Jacey Merkle
- Rachel Meston
- Isaac Miles
- Brittany Miller
- Madelyn Miller
- Marin Miroslavich
- Kyle Moore
- Mary Ellen Muenzenmaier
- Elizabeth Muenzenmaier
- Grace Murphy
- Genevieve Nagel
- Zander Nash
- Mackenzie Newhall
- Robert Newland
- Emma Newlove
- Jair Obando
- Reece Omodio
- Chelsea Paddock
- Eric Paternoster
- Marcus Pedde
- Gavin Pejakovich
- Alex Pepin
- William Plesscher
- Mario Pomorski
- Juliana Pullen
- Brody Quinn
- Jackson Rancilio-Swords
- Spencer Rasmussen
- Liam Regan
- Emmanuel Richardson
- Jaycee Rider
- Donovan Rinehart
- Amelia Rooks
- Lucas Ruiz
- Olive Ryder
- Zenaida Sackett
- Jeremy Salomon
- Simon Sawyer
- Maxwell Saxton
- Molly Schneidewind
- Annika Schnell
- Kearsten Schultz
- Sophia Schwartz
- Will Seymour
- Travis Shemwell
- Riley Shults
- Dawson Skupin
- Jillian Smith
- Miyani Sonera
- Ella Spooner
- Molly Stevison
- Gavin Stewart
- Jacquelyn Stoddard
- Grace Sweet
- Zachary Sykes
- William Thomas
- Chris Thunder
- Joseph Treder
- Anthony Valade
- Gavin Van Kampen
- Benjamin Van Nes
- Lucy Vandemark
- Lauren Vanderstelt
- Tyler Vanderzanden
- Benjmain Vansumeren
- Elijah Vue
- Annslee Ware
- Maggie Westra
- Elisabeth Wilks
- Gretchen Wilson
- Ryan Witt
- Darius Wright
- Ashley Zollman