Alumni In the News

Carter Hugate ’24, a civil engineering major from Chesterfield, Virginia, is the second cadet to qualify for and successfully complete the Army Airborne School in Fort Benning, Georgia. This past February, contracted Army cadets participated in a 12-mile ruck to qualify for one of the Army school slots open to them. Ranked on ruck time and their GPA, available slots were filled on a first come first served basis. “We got chosen based on our 12-mile ruck times, grades, and PT scores,” stated Hugate. Army Airborne School, widely known as jump school, is a three-week program for basic paratrooper (military parachutist) training.

After recently suffering a second season-ending injury in just ten months, Wade has persevered thank to an enormous support system, including a close-knit family, ODU coaches and players. Despite not being able to play, he was still named captain. Head coach Jeff Jones made it clear: "the coach made it clear, you've earned this. You are our team leader. And even though you're injured, we still need you to lead."

Josef Kuhn ’19, a freshman at Belmont University in Nashville, recently released his first single, “Ahead,” on Acrophase Records and was featured on Ones to Watch by LiveNation. The site called it “a breezy track built for effortless backyard days, and listening to it will easily be the best three minutes of your day.”

JMU has fully integrated the job search tool, Handshake, into its website. With this tool, Avery Archibald '16 landed her dream job at Amazon. 

William & Mary senior captain Christie van de Kamp (Midlothian, Va.) capped off her final Tribe campaign with the highest honor possible, earning a spot on the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-American team. This award follows her first team All-CAA and All-Region honors.

Snead was a standout player as a student herself at Trinity....good enough to not only earn a scholarship to William and Mary, but to be enshrined as a player in both school's halls of fame. Now as a coach....she has won over 300 games with both the field hockey and lacrosse programs.

In William and Mary's field hockey game against Davidson, Annie Snead '16 scored her 26th career assist to become the record holder for the school. 

University of Richmond is celebrating it's 100th year of Spider field hockey and the bonds of Spider sisterhood. This year's roster boasts two sets of actual sisters including Trinity's Emma and Addie Nash. 

Now 20 years old, Largo is just days away from his first senior-level international competition. The step up in class brings a degree of uncertainty, but that's not dissimilar from the position he was in two years ago, and he's eager to find out where he stacks up.

"A former walk-on, Jack Freudenthal emerged as a reliable safety valve for Wake Forest last season. He had big shoes to fill as Cam Serigne’s replacement, and while he wasn’t as productive as his predecessor, he was even more efficient."

Austin Zajur's '14 appearances in funny TV commercials is "just the beginning for this talented, scene stealing actor... Next up for Zajur is the big screen appearance in Scary Stories To Tell in The Dark." 

Two-time ODAC Male Runner of the Year, Bridgewater senior Jamie Hiegel finished in 59th out of 280 athletes at the NCAA Division III men's cross country championships at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

Emma '16 and Addie '18 Nash have played field hockey together from the time they were 7 and 9. Now, after a two year break from playing together, the sisters are reunited on the University of Richmond field hockey team.

Alene Day '89 is rock star concierge; a job of a endless requirements. 

"It's her job to ensure that your favorite artists, from Taylor Swift to Stevie Nicks, have everything they could possibly need when they perform in Louisville."

At 26, Chris Snowden '07 took the project lead on designing a 2,500 square foot, single story Midcentury Modern home in Chesterfield County.

Paige Healy is chief creative officer of the restaurant company founded and headed by her father and which has grown to five restaurants — four locations of The Boathouse concept and one Casa del Barco Mexican-themed restaurant in downtown Richmond. There will be two new Case del Barco restaurants in Short Pump and Chesterfield Towne Center and a new restaurant, Shrimp Shack, that will open in Chesterfield Town Center. 

When we consider how indoor environments influence our health, we often think first of how those environments change our lifestyle, encouraging us to be more sedentary or less social. But there’s another way our time indoors affects our biology: by determining what substances we come in contact with.

A 20-year working relationship between the heads of two of Richmond’s biggest players in commercial real estate has led a local construction company to dip its toes into development. Hourigan Construction recently launched Hourigan Development, a commercial real estate development and consulting company led by CEO Mark Hourigan and President Joseph Marchetti III.

In the first Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national rankings of the 2016-17 season, the Christopher Newport men's tennis team slots in at No. 28, holding at the same spot they finished in 2015-16. Also listed in the national singles rankings for the first time in his career, junior Justin Cerny is ranked No. 49 heading into the spring season. 

Red shirt senior Torey Burston was rewarded with a scholarship by VCU head coach Will Wade this weekend after spending years as a walk-on with the program.

JETSETTER Magazine ranked the Top 10 "most amazing outdoor dining experiences" in the world and Richmond's own "Dinner in the Field" came in at number seven on the list: “Get a taste of la dolce vita at this al fresco pop-up in the farms around Richmond, VA. Husband and wife culinary duo Paige Healy and Gregorio Spinzo drew inspiration from their Southern Italian roots to create Dinner in the Field.”

Rebekah Hupp Martin ‘09 is part of the Virginia Tech research team that helped discover the cause of drinking-water contamination in Flint, Michigan.

Mike’s work has been carried in newspapers and galleries and, most recently, on the lunchbags of his middle school-aged daughter, Maggy.

“After battling through an injury for much of the 2014-15 campaign, the Virginia native got a recent start in goal from coach Parsons for the final home game of the season. Not only did he make sixteen saves on his way to earning the victory on Senior Night, but he did it in style by being named the game's #1 Star.”

“When an artist like noted painter Fielding Archer, whose portraits have been commissioned by collectors and corporations all over the world, turns his hand to furniture design, the result is a sophisticated collision of form and function.”

“A true blue Richmonder, Healy grew up in Midlothian and shot his video, ‘Die Young’ at his parent’s place. He attended Trinity Episcopal School, where he started to get involved in music and play afternoon sessions at the school hang-out spot ‘Pach’s Place’”. His latest project – Colin & Caroline – has him teaming up with former Trinity schoolmate Caroline Mauck. They just released their first original song, “’Fireflies’”.

Lindsay’s study published in the International Journal of Science Education “’utilized an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach to explore randomly assigned treatment and control participants’ frequency of inquiry instruction in secondary science classrooms. The present study has the potential to inform how methods of structuring inquiry instruction and teaching scientific practices are addressed in teacher preparation.”