RE LOG - Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 Ransom Everglades LOG 61 Ashleigh Johnson received one of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s most coveted awards, the 2016 Sportswoman of the Year for teams, during the foundation’s 37th Annual Salute to Women in Sports Awards Gala Oct. 19, 2016, in New York City. Johnson, an Olympic gold medal winner in water polo, was recognized along with Claressa Shields, an Olympic gold medal- ist in boxing, who earned the individual Sportswoman of the Year award. The award is presented to athletes who distinguish themselves through supreme athletic perfor- mances over a 12-month period. Finalists were voted on by the public in September at SportswomanoftheYear.com. Johnson, who led Team USA to gold at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, became the first water polo player to win the award. Johnson was named the top goalkeeper of the Olympic tournament after making 51 saves. The event was co-hosted by Emmy award- winning sports announcer and former professional tennis player Mary Carillo, and two-time Olympic softball medalist Jessica Mendoza. Nicolette Roque writes, “My title is Knowledge of Careers (KOC) Administrator and I do pretty much everything: working with students, organizing and carrying out career exposure lectures, assisting sopho- more students on professional development lectures and exercises, etc. I got involved with KOC through the Americorps VISTA program, which I have been doing this year. After graduating RE in 2012, I received my BA from Johns Hopkins in 2015 and my MHS from Johns Hopkins in 2016. My next stop is medical school – I will be starting a three-year accelerated pro- gram for primary care scholars at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. In terms of KOC and what we do, KOC is a Miami-based after-school program that encourages and guides academic and professional ambitions in public high school students. Our mission is to promote academic success and workforce readiness by exposing our students to novel career opportunities, developing their profession- al skills, connecting them to meaningful internships, and facilitating social impact work. Established in 2015, we have three cohorts of students in two schools, with plans to continue expanding into differ- ent grade levels and schools next year. We believe that too few students are aware of the professional opportunities available to them as adults, and of the relationship between academic success and future op- portunity. KOC students work through a rigorous curriculum that teaches them the fundamental skills necessary to thrive in challenging professional settings. By con- necting them to accomplished profession- als, engaging internships in a variety of career fields, and highlighting the connec- tion between professional opportunity and academic success, our students become excited by professional possibilities and invested in their own development.” 2013 Julian Marx, a guard at Grinnell College, was honored as the Midwest Conference Men’s Basketball Performer of the Week on Dec. 12 after hitting 17-of-35 three- point field goals and scoring an average of 28.5 points in two victories. Marx ranked fourth in the NCAA’s Division III in scoring with a 29.6 average; he was also the leader in total points and three-point field goals per game (6.89). Sam Singer was recognized by the University of California, Berkeley, as Scholar-Athlete of the Week for Nov. 14-18, 2016. He was lauded for incorporating the content knowledge gained through his upper division business administration courses to the development, investment, and management of a unique athletic product. He was also praised by faculty for being dedicated to meaningful engagement beyond the classroom, maximizing opportu- nities to establish competency in marketing, accounting, and finance. He has leveraged his skill set by serving as the co-founder of a limited liability company, demonstrating his leadership capability both on and off the court. Brandy Smith (See Lauren Archer ’16 ) Riqui Villegas writes, “I will be graduating from the University of Florida in the spring with a major in finance. I have accepted a position in PNC’s Wealth Management Development Program beginning in August in Cleveland. I recently had another very successful philanthropy with my fraternity, raising over $85K for my own foundation, CHOMP Cancer, which supports Palliative Care. I began CHOMP with my family after defeating lymphoma in 2013. To date CHOMP and fraternity have raised about $250K in the past three years. Please feel free to share my story – would love if some of my fellow alumni and classmates heard the news. Below is a photo of my parents and me after the event in November.” 2011 Nick Swerdlow was featured in the November issue of Think Magazine. In the article he was referred to as a “trailblazing new-wave gallerist and curator.” The story – which noted that his 2015 Art Basel show was very well received – credited Swerdlow with having a sharp eye for scouting talent and forecasting trends before they hit the art scene. 2012 Camille Duarte writes, “At the beginning of January I started working for AT&T small business sales as a Client Solutions Executive in Orlando, Fla. Excited to be close to home and to be able to go to more alumni events.”