was the first recipient of this new award.
== Notable alumni ==
Jordan Anderson – NASCAR driver
David Brumbaugh – Oklahoma House of Representatives
Joseph Cryan – state senator and former New Jersey General Assembly majority leader
Clay Dimick – soccer player
Joseph Lennox Federal – Bishop of Salt Lake City from 1960 to 1980
Robert L. FitzPatrick – author and writer covering pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing companies
Hal Haid – baseball player
Winder R. Harris – U.S. Representative from Virginia
Nikki Hornsby – musician
Franklin Lawson – soccer coach for Georgia Perimeter College
Robert G. Marshall – Virginia House of Delegates
Patrick McHenry – U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Speaker Pro-Tempore of the U.S House of Representatives
Eugene O'Dunne – judge on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
Emilio Pagan – baseball player
Alex Pledger – basketball player
Michal Smolen – slalom canoeist
Tony Suarez – soccer player
Vincent Stanislaus Waters – Bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh
Patti Wheeler – president …