Nominate Someone Special for the Distinguished Alumni Award

Nominate Someone Special for the Distinguished Alumni Award

York Catholic District School Board alumni are truly outstanding. Through their God-given talents and social conscience, they constantly make the world a better place. 

York Catholic recognizes some of its incredible alumni every year with the Distinguished Alumni Awards. This is a celebration of Catholic education and the people who have benefited from it.   

If you know a York Catholic alumni who deserves the Distinguished Alumni Award, please nominate them here by Sunday, January 12, 2025.

Last year’s Distinguished Alumni winners were:

  • Father Scott Birchall, a priest in the Archdiocese of Toronto
  • Jessica Dizon Burns, an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and professor at Centennial College
  • Jeffrey Man, a senior policy advisor at the Ontario Public Service (OPS)
  • Kevin McCloskey, a deputy chief in the York Regional Police
  • Saneliso Moyo, a partner at Goldblatt Partners LLP law firm
  • Marsha Pinto, a speech therapist and advocate for shy children
  • Jordan Romano, a professional baseball pitcher
  • Sierra Scodellaro, a researcher at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Distinguished Alumni Awards winners:

  • Have made a significant contribution to their field, industry and/or community, and are an inspiration to others (and have worked in their field for at least two years)
  • Reflect one or more of the Catholic School Graduate Expectations

  • Demonstrate creative and critical thinking skills and integrate Catholic values into their daily lives, as a socially responsible global citizen
  • Graduated from a York Catholic secondary school or spent the majority of their formative years in a York Catholic school

Please nominate the exceptional York Catholic alumnus in your life by Sunday, January 12, 2025!