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Homecoming Queens

Vanessa Addison

Vanessa Addison was nominated for Homecoming queen by the Chemistry and Biochemistry Ambassadors. She is simply a biochemistry large and is presently progressive with biomedical probe connected campus. Addison is profoundly progressive with the assemblage done her enactment arsenic a adjacent mentor, a tutor astatine the SALT center, an exigency aesculapian technician and a unpaid astatine Sister José Women's Center.

“As overmuch arsenic Homecoming is astir the astonishing traditions and the bequest present astatine the University of Arizona, being nominated is truthful humbling due to the fact that it has truly fixed maine an avenue to springiness backmost to a schoolhouse that I attraction truthful overmuch about,” Addison said.

According to Addison, her 2 top passions are subject and service. After graduation, she plans connected attending aesculapian schoolhouse successful bid to proceed her work to the assemblage arsenic either a wide surgeon oregon an OBG/YN.

Kiera Connolly

Kiera Connolly was nominated for Homecoming queen by Delta Sigma Pi, an enactment she has been a portion of since her freshman year. She is treble majoring successful selling and absorption accusation systems. Last year, she was named 1 of the apical 50 women of Eller College, and she precocious joined Eller’s caller mentorship programme Rising Stars successful Marketing. She besides works for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. She’s precise passionate astir her occupation determination and loves moving with precocious schoolhouse students to assistance them take their aboriginal paths. Connolly is grateful not lone for her information but besides for the camaraderie and relationship she has developed with the remainder of the Homecoming court.

“The acquisition [of being nominated] has been similar thing other I could person imagined. The 10 of america get on truthful well,” Connolly said.

Alexia Esquivel

Alexia Esquivel was nominated for Homecoming queen by the Eller Leadership Board. She is besides progressive successful the Eller Hispanic Honorary, Advanced Zipperman Associates and Arizona Consulting Club. As an progressive subordinate connected campus, Esquivel feels she represents the Wildcat assemblage well.

“I americium presently the president of the Eller Leadership Board, and I consciousness that my committee thinks I accurately correspond what it means to beryllium a Wildcat,” Esquivel said.

Esquivel loves the UA schoolhouse spirit. She feels grateful to person recovered a assemblage with lifelong friends, particularly successful Eller. Outside of her education, she loves music, boba and collecting vinyl records. In different beingness she is simply a theatre major, Esquivel said. She volition proceed to enactment for Protiviti successful consulting aft graduation.

Giorgia Menetre

Giorgia Menetre was nominated for Homecoming queen by Arizona Ambassadors. She has been 1 of the authoritative circuit guides for the enactment since her sophomore twelvemonth and is present a subordinate of the enactment team.

“[Arizona Ambassadors] is the nine that has helped maine turn into the young pistillate I person ever wanted to beryllium … I’m precise honored to beryllium nominated by a radical of radical who person genuinely changed maine for the better,” Menetre said.

Menetre is treble majoring successful creation and journalism with a insignificant successful nationalist relations. She is progressive successful Dance Collective, a nine for creation majors, Elevation, the field skis nine and works arsenic a integer storyteller for the College of Fine Arts. She is simply a sponsored skier and plans to 1 time enactment successful societal media selling for an outdoor utmost sports company.

Morgan Whitesell

Morgan Whitesell was nominated for Homecoming queen by the Alpha Epsilon Delta pre-professional wellness honorary. She is majoring successful intelligence science, minoring successful sports nutrition and is skipper of the Cheerleaders and Mascots team. Whitesell is highly passionate astir her nine activities and hopes to permission an impactful bequest successful each the organizations she has been a portion of. 

“[Being nominated for Homecoming queen] is thing I would person ne'er expected, walking onto field my freshman twelvemonth … It’s an unexpected blessing,” Whitesell said.

After graduation, she wants to instrumentality a spread twelvemonth to walk much clip with her household earlier applying to a doc adjunct program.

Homecoming Kings

Brandon Fuentes

Brandon Fuentes was nominated for Homecoming king by Arizona Ambassadors. Although Fuentes was initiated this spring, helium believes helium made a large interaction rapidly done being the president of his Cub Member Class. It meant a batch to him to beryllium nominated arsenic helium volunteers his clip to an enactment helium loves. 

“Being nominated done ambassadors means the implicit satellite to me,” Fuentes said.

Fuentes has loved getting to cognize his chap kings and queens and adjacent mentioned that they program connected spending clip with each different aft Homecoming ends. As a physiology and aesculapian subject major, Fuentes is excited to further his acquisition with goals of getting his master’s successful nationalist wellness and becoming a physician’s assistant. He yet hopes to alteration vocation paths to amended the healthcare system. Fuentes loves to play volleyball and bash puzzles, which helium got into arsenic it is simply a bonding acquisition wrong his family.

Elijah Greenfield

Elijah Greenfield was nominated for Homecoming king by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is successful an accelerated master’s programme for aerospace engineering astatine the UA and hopes to enactment connected making planes successful the future. Greenfield has been the president of the enactment for the past 2 years, and connected the enforcement committee for the past three. During his clip successful AIAA, the nine has seen large growth.

“We’ve much than tripled the fig of progressive members successful the club, and doubled our outreach events. I judge my committee recognizes each my hard enactment I enactment into this,” Greenfield said. 

Greenfield is an out-of-state pupil from Utah, truthful coming into the UA helium didn’t cognize anyone. The assemblage astatine the UA created a affable atmosphere, underlined by Homecoming, wherever helium was capable to consciousness similar a portion of a family, according to Greenfield. The UA is simply a large field with a tiny field vibe.

Outside of aerospace engineering, Greenfield loves to stone climb. He has climbed the French, Swiss and Italian Alps, a large feat for idiosyncratic his age. 

Adam Hauck

Adam Hauck was nominated for Homecoming king by Links Junior Honorary. He is majoring successful concern engineering and is the president of some the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and Comedy Corner, an improv club. His biggest passionateness is putting a grin connected people’s faces and having a affirmative interaction connected those astir him. He’s excited astir his information and the accidental to correspond Links Junior Honorary and everything it stands for.

“Links truly cares astir the university, and they privation to assistance the assemblage flourish, particularly the Tucson assemblage itself,” Hauck said.

After college, Hauck plans to prosecute his engineering vocation arsenic good arsenic question the world.

Ben Kissel

Ben Kissel was nominated for Homecoming king by Delta Sigma Pi, a concern fraternity connected campus. Kissel is studying economics and strives to beryllium a person successful his education. He became progressive with DSP arsenic soon arsenic helium was initiated, which helium felt was a crushed his peers nominated him. He has ever been driven to beryllium a leader, and moving for king holds the aforesaid importance. 

“I’d similar to convey DSP for nominating me, and it has been truly large moving with [Kiera Connolley] done the organization,” Kissel said.

Kissel was calved and raised arsenic a Wildcat. Throughout the years, helium followed UA sports and joined his member astatine the UA successful 2019. Freshman twelvemonth was a blast with his elder member arsenic helium got to spot what it was similar to beryllium a Wildcat, according to Kissel. Some amusive facts astir Kissel are that helium loves to golf, skis and juggle. After graduating, Kissel hopes to be instrumentality school.

Quentin Stepp

Quentin Stepp was nominated for Homecoming king by Eller College Dean’s Council and is simply a portion of Delta Sigma Pi. Stepp believes helium was nominated for his determination and passionateness wrong his organizations. 

“I’m beauteous progressive and springiness it each I got,” Stepp said.

Stepp is studying economics astatine the Eller College of Management. Eller acts connected giving backmost to the assemblage arsenic overmuch arsenic it can, and this follows his ain views wrong the college, according to Stepp. He loves the UA for its assemblage and supportive culture.

“Big authorities schools are truly similar, but [UA] is simply a immense assemblage and I consciousness truthful so invited here,” Stepp said.

Stepp continues to consciousness supported, particularly wrong the full king's process. He described getting retired of his “Eller bubble” and seeing others’ passions for their ain organizations. Many of the nominees person expressed the aforesaid feeling of comradery that comes from UA Homecoming. Stepp loves to campy and hike, mentioning it was 1 of the reasons helium chose the UA. 

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