Awards
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2001
- Musicianship:
Mark Wahl
- Leadership:
Christine Lee
2002
- Most
Improved: Cristal Salisbury
- Unsung
Hero: Stephanie Loo
- Leadership:
Joan Kim, Hannah Lee, Stephanie Loo, Cate Rauschenberger
2003
- Most
Improved: Hari Iyer
- Unsung
Hero: Kumar Naik
- Leadership:
Devin Cooper, Elizabeth Kim, Joy Wang, William Wang
- Exceptional
Leadership: Joseph Cho
2004
- Most
Improved: Katy Hsu
- Unsung
Hero: Stephanie Olivier; Sheila Vedala
- Leadership:
Howard Chern; Katy Hsu; Judy Lee; Julia Pei;
Michelle Song
2005
- Most
Improved: John Cunha
- Unsung
Hero: Grant Carlton
- Leadership:
Gary Castriota; Thomas Fielding; Adrianna
Gregory; Andrew Lei; Nick Russell; Cassie Xie; Rachel Zisek
2006
- Most
Improved: Sobhan Peterson; Lalit Janak; Bruna Alves; Tiffany Park
- Unsung
Hero: Angelina Barrett; Jason Beck; Nupur Gupta; Shreena
Patel
- Service:
Natasha Johnson; Gabrielle Galon; David Moore
- Newsletter
Editor and Creator: Nicole Yackley
- Leadership:
Helena Chern; Angela Li; Wesley Gillis
2007
- Most
Improved: Tanya Su; Arian Mizani; DiShaliek Wright; Mallory Kalajian
- Unsung
Hero: Rachel LoPilato; Sanchit Malhotra;
Melody Tsao; Green Kim; Bianca Popola
- Service:
Megan Li; Harry Bernard; Nandhini Sundaresan; Mary Elizabeth Wicker
- Leadership:
Juyun Kim; Ian Zheng; Hannah Fernadez; Kayla Moore
2008
- Most
Improved: Neil Chaudhary; Jason Denis; Rucha Shrotriya;
Swapnil Pujari
- Unsung
Hero: Tayina Fenelus;
Nikhila Edovalli; Stephanie Chang; Fred Hong
- Service:
Natalie Mau; Brennan Thomas; Alex Edquist; Juny Kim
- Leadership:
Navya Nadimpali; Anjalie
Subramanian; Diane Lin; Steven Sonu
2009
- Most
Improved: Avery Alsup; Sarah Montana; Annette
Chu; Kiyoshi Woolheater
- Unsung
Hero: Brian Kim; Calvin Su; Stephani Hoang; Ashley Johnson
- Service:
Haritha Aribindi; Millad
Asgharneya; Katie Zheng; Tucker Boyce; Younji Lee
- Leadership:
Jasmine Merlette; Carly Sackellares; Eileen
Cheng; Cathy Tang
2010
- Most
Improved: Nitish Manumala; Ilon Weinstein; Daniel Kim; Suraj Sehgal
- Unsung
Hero: Amritha Vivek; Niki Gella; Connie Xie;
Yuuki Ikeda
- Service:
Sofia Arango; Sanaz Dooradgar;
Caitlin Stanton; Mili Raina; Austin Chun
- Musicianship: Brian Abedi; Jeffrey Bai
- Leadership:
Sofia Arango; Rishikesh Patel; Aja List; Audy
Mulia
2011
- Most
Improved: Neelu Noori; Alekya Prathi; Sebastian
Fernandez; Yen Hsiang
- Unsung
Hero: Chae Won Min; Tomer Ravkai; Jane Shin;
Hannah Song
- Service:
Sufyan Hadi; Rhithm Pandit; Tomer Ravkai;
Grace Choi; Sammy Kim; Katherine Kwon
- Leadership: Madison Pelicer; Sahiti Eduvally; Jake Dugger, Sarah
Liu
- Exceptional
Leadership: Hope Hong
2012
- Most
Improved: Eva Cheng; Jessica Story; Kyree Cash; Justin Chu
- Unsung
Hero: Kristen Graves; Ally Lamb; Jake Wong; Brandon Cho
- Service:
Joseph Angeles; Dario Ayala; Vaibhav Kumar; Geneva Oke; Avni Ahuja; Brandon Cho; Brandon Kim; Kyra Tyler
- Leadership::
Chloe Flanders; Tariq Waseem; Leah Idichandy,
Chris Sun
- Exceptional
Leadership: Charlie Tantillo
2013
- Most
Improved: Andrew Denis; Paola
Heurta; Joaquin Ramas; Mikey Stockley
- Unsung
Hero: Maxine Akrofi; Yerzon
Carreno; Kelsey Johnson; Reese Macdonald
- Service:
Maxine Akrofi;
Pierce Cusick; Andrew Denis; Nora Hong; Brian Hu; Evan McVay;
Anav Mittal; Mikey Stockley; Alex Zhan; Tony
Zhang
- Leadership: Alexis Forrest; Rohan
Raina; Nitish Sood; Bennett Zhu
2014
- Most
Improved: Alexa Chan; Gayathri Dhujati;
Benjamin Koehler; Aditya Mhaskar
- Unsung
Hero: Ashlyn Foster; Alexis Merlette; Ethan Walker; Jessica Zhang
- Service:
Tharun Kante; Heather Law; Maxx Prince
- Leadership: Sara Balian; Grayson
Beck; Madeline Kim
- Exceptional
Leadership: Ryan Baker; Alan Ko
2015
- Most
Improved: Sidhest Desai; Hannah Kinsey; Mihir
Kulkarni; Nythia Rajasekar
- Unsung
Hero: Olivia Barker; Sathyia Gummadi;
Curie Kim; Nathan Zhu
- Service:
Zayne Akrofi;
Michelle Bak; Vinnie Khanna; Alan McVay; Samarth Mishra; Derek Wang
- Musicianship:
Richard Cho; Adam Wang
- Leadership: Rohit Das; Nicole Hu;
Andrew Mulia; Robbie Ruppel
- Most
Improved: Ashley Day; Priya Joshi; Rashmi Kondur; Matthew Lin
- Unsung
Hero: Palin Bhardwaj; Jason Juang; Zachary Plimpton;
- Service:
Aiden Delahante;
Louis Jean-Guillaume; Sophia Johnson; Catherine Mi; Kaci Xie; Anna Zhu
- Leadership:
Elisa Corena;
Timmy Green; Jenny Heo; Sarang Pujar
2017
- Most
Improved: Lucia Bralley,
Alan Fralick, Rohit Jivangikar, Rachel Liu
- Unsung
Hero: Devyn Baker, Inesh Biswas, Senadzi Kpeglo, Rohan Pise
- Service:
Jacob Garcia, Harish Kanthi, Dhilan Nanji, Ava Paikaday
- Leadership:
Kendall Brown, Austin Debrody, Violet Newhart, Joseph Yoo
- Exceptional
Leadership: Daniel Lee
2018
- Most
Improved: Amy Kim, Nick Saadati
- Unsung
Hero: Rian Evans, Ella Gilder,
Aryan Naik, Nir Oren, Nehe Lingam
- Service:
Atreyee Ghosh, Samuel Lin
- Leadership:
Tessa Butterworth, Sabrina Zhu
2019
- Most
Improved: Ishaan Barve, Sarah Osayi
- Unsung
Hero: Lia Condie, Mitchel Jiang
- Service:
Austin Barrett
- Leadership:
James Chen, Maya Rajesh
- Exceptional
Leadership: Samay Desai, Audrey
Nguyen, JD Yoo
2020
- Most
Improved: Amar Reddy
- Unsung
Hero: Sanchika Gupta, Anusha Sharma
- Service:
Riya Challa, Ricaria
Jacobs
- Leadership:
May Mishima, Catherine Zhang
- Exceptional
Leadership: Aaron Wang
2021
- Most
Improved: Kiran Battula, Tucker
Kelleher
- Unsung
Hero: Amberly Armstrong, Bennett Etheridge, Alexi Hou, Isabella Russell
- Service:
Natalie Crump, Emma Horst, Kushagra
Garg
- Leadership:
Emily Li
- Exceptional
Leadership: Irene Achanti, Mia Song
2022
- Most
Improved: Atiksh Chakraborty, Ruhika Veeramreddygari
- Unsung
Hero: Niva Nimgaonkar
- Service:
Samyuktha Chanda, Duke Condi
- Leadership:
Ananya Gornti, Abhinav Ivaturi
- Exceptional
Leadership: Victor Huang, Esther Park, Jeffrey Zhang
2023
- Most
Improved: Amelia Duerr, Christopher Lee
- Unsung Hero: Gabrielle Chambers,
Devipriya Kommineni, Can Wang
- Service:
Chinmay Choubey, Nicholas Nito Bakopoulos
- Leadership:
Isharya Chhabra, Aditya Manchanda, Keya
Sekharan
- Exceptional
Leadership: Rohan Jacob, Derek Kim, Kiera Nguyen, Harini
Saravanan, Shreyas Singh
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