Division of Student Affairs<\/a> on April 13.<\/p>\nThe longstanding program recognizes undergraduate students across all FSU colleges for their exceptional leadership and notable impact within the FSU community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for all you do to make FSU so special,\u201d Brandon Bowden, associate vice president for Student Affairs, said at the event honoring the students. \u201cYour dedication to creating a legacy has made an impact greater than the sum of its parts. Thank you for giving Florida State a part of your heart and for letting our great institution be a part of your story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inductees become part of a network representing leaders of change, devotion to FSU and the promise to continue making a notable impact after graduation. Each student received a special Torchbearer 100 medallion to wear at commencement and was celebrated for being a testament to FSU\u2019s legacy of leadership within the student body.<\/p>\n
The Torchbearer 100 selection process begins with application submissions in September; interviews are conducted in November. A selection committee chose the 100 students who best exemplified and inspired excellence, transformative daring, responsible stewardship and community engagement.<\/p>\n
Bowden shared that this was an incredibly competitive year, with applicants reflecting a greater representation of majors, colleges and organizations than ever before.<\/p>\n
2026 Torchbearer 100 Honorees
(listed alphabetically by last name):<\/p>\n
Danny Alex<\/p>\n
Autumn Alfred<\/p>\n
Saumil Amradkar<\/p>\n
Josh Benalcazar<\/p>\n
Sindhu Bilapati<\/p>\n
Blake Bole<\/p>\n
Savannah Boutwell<\/p>\n
Destinee Britto<\/p>\n
Emma Brown<\/p>\n
Sydney Burton<\/p>\n
Kailen Christian<\/p>\n
Donwon Cooley<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Cordero<\/p>\n
Tafari D\u2019Aguilar<\/p>\n
Carson Dale<\/p>\n
Hugo Davies<\/p>\n
Emma Dimassa<\/p>\n
Kate Eason<\/p>\n
April Edwards<\/p>\n
Amanda Fronczak<\/p>\n
Tatiana Garcia<\/p>\n
Caroline Glock<\/p>\n
Natalie Gonzalez<\/p>\n
Megan Hallman<\/p>\n
Alexa Hymes<\/p>\n
Susanna Inguanzo<\/p>\n
Sophia Inguanzo<\/p>\n
Karlie Jackson<\/p>\n
Sarah Grace Jaffe<\/p>\n
McKenzy Jie-a-fa<\/p>\n
Salena Kahassai<\/p>\n
Anne Kallis<\/p>\n
Tyler Knight<\/p>\n
Morgan Krause<\/p>\n
Joud Kurdi<\/p>\n
Faisal Lalani<\/p>\n
Delaney Lento<\/p>\n
Isabella LoBianco<\/p>\n
Lucie Grace Lovato<\/p>\n
Jaclyn Madson<\/p>\n
Madeline Mason<\/p>\n
Samantha Mason<\/p>\n
Grace Massari<\/p>\n
Gilberto Mattei-Fernandez<\/p>\n
Jasmine Max<\/p>\n
Margot McFadden<\/p>\n
Alyson Mizanin<\/p>\n
Jaylene Molina<\/p>\n
CJ Morales<\/p>\n
Jibril Mustafa<\/p>\n
Olivia Nicholson<\/p>\n
Ashley Oliveira Andrade<\/p>\n
Megan Olivero<\/p>\n
Payton Palmer<\/p>\n
Jacqueline Patino<\/p>\n
Grace Patterson<\/p>\n
Andres Perez<\/p>\n
Breanna Prieschl<\/p>\n
Olivia Prieto<\/p>\n
Samantha Randall<\/p>\n
Abigail Rios<\/p>\n
Josiah Rivette<\/p>\n
Alyssa Robinson<\/p>\n
Landon Rodriguez<\/p>\n
Liliana Salazar-Juarez<\/p>\n
Jasmeen Santos-Ramirez<\/p>\n
Madeline Schmidt<\/p>\n
Vega Scholpp<\/p>\n
Allan Shakhinovich Nabiev<\/p>\n
Sydney Sherry<\/p>\n
Drake Shook<\/p>\n
JJ Sigurani Rivera<\/p>\n
Sydney Simon<\/p>\n
Charly Slager<\/p>\n
Geetanjali Srivastava<\/p>\n
Jadyn Stringfellow<\/p>\n
Gwyneth Sturm<\/p>\n
Tristny Ta<\/p>\n
Sofia Tascon<\/p>\n
Sela Teplin<\/p>\n
Hailey Thompson<\/p>\n
Jacqueline Tinoco<\/p>\n
Emily Tully<\/p>\n
Matthew Turner<\/p>\n
Michael Turner<\/p>\n
Victoria Valko<\/p>\n
Caden Vandermeulen<\/p>\n
Kaylee Vasquez<\/p>\n
Christian Velazquez<\/p>\n
Adrian Vivas-Nambo<\/p>\n
Sydney Wald<\/p>\n
Jack Wemm<\/p>\n
Tripp Weston<\/p>\n
Orie White<\/p>\n
Ashley Wong<\/p>\n
Emily Woo<\/p>\n
Erica Wyatt<\/p>\n
Joanna Zequeira<\/p>\n
Janet Zhang<\/p>\n
Phoebe Zucker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Torchbearer 100 inductees were recognized by FSU’s Student of Division Affairs on April 13. (Evan Eisenstark\/Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[37348,232,234,233,106742],"class_list":["post-241426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-division-of-student-affairs","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-torchbearer-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The 2026 Torchbearer 100 inductees were recognized by FSU’s Student of Division Affairs on April 13. (Evan Eisenstark\/Division of Student Affairs)\t\t<\/p>\n