Pictured, from left in front, Izabella Woodruff, Girl of the Year runner-up; Kellen Heuber, Boy of the Year runner-up; Angelica Garcia Ponce, Girl of the Year; and Charlie Sexton, Boy of the Year. From left, in back, Miranda Braddock, office administrator; and Tamara Drake, program director.

WARSAW — Baker Youth Club held their annual end of the school year awards ceremony on Thursday, May 17. BYC Executive Director Tracy Furnivall handed out the awards at the ceremony.

The awards revolved around BYC’s six pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, citizenship, caring and fairness.

The biggest awards of the night were the Boy and Girl of the Year. The Girl of the Year award was given to Angelica Garcia Ponce and the Boy of the Year honor was awarded to Charlie Sexton. Izabella Woodruff was Girl of the Year runner-up and Kellen Heuber was Boy of the Year runner-up.

Furnivall also took time to recognize staff members and volunteers of Baker Youth Club, including Ashley Maust, Brooke Miller, Caleb Clower, Caleb Rovenstien, Coyle Kreft, David Goon, Gail Rodriguez, Haylie Lackey, Josh Engle, Keagan Rice, Kelly Furnivall, Mark Tracy, Robert Lee, Sadie Halpin, Tanya Kempton, Tecy Banta, Thomas Pennington, Tony Pickett, Trae Furnivall, Whitney Ousley, Courtney Coles, Tommy Breeding, Katie Richards, Noah Marshal and Ronnie Shoemaker. 

The awards were given as follows:

Trustworthiness

Makayla Cassidy, Natalee Stetzel, Shannon Ridley, Mia Blocher

Respect

Anthony Salas, Sadie Brown, Hayden Xique, Lacie Walden

Responsibility

Reed Carnes, Kasiahh Chupp, Robinson Hoffert, Abby Parcels

Fairness

Keagen Patrick, Sophia Griffith, Ulises Herrera, Daihya Chupp

Caring

Joaquin Ridley, Remingtyn Oberg, Ethan Wetzel, Audrina Jones

Citizenship

Roosevelt Hoffert, Diya Patel, Cameron Fox, Aislyn Elliott

Boys of the Month and Girls of the Month awards were given for the months of August through May. The winners of those awards were:

August – Noah Landis, Dakota Betts

September – Joshua Pratt, Staci Slagal

October – Jitheash Sivakumar, Haylie Fletcher

November – Layne Blocher, Shelby Harlan

December – Blaine Jenkins, Brynndelyn Woods

January – Zackary Renecker, Gretchen Robinson

February – Alex Herrera, Chloe Stewart

March – Charlie Sexton, Ava Dimmit

April – Ryan Carnes, Emma Moss

May – Nash Wiggins, Lillith Walker 

Pictured are staff members and winners of awards at the annual BYC awards ceremony.