2024-2025 District Awards
On June 7, 2025, at the 2025-26 District Governor Installation, the following clubs and Rotarians were recognized for their accomplishments during the 2024-25 Rotary year.
For detailed descriptions of the award nominations, click here.
Club Awards:
Casa Grande:
- Best Fundraising Event – Denim & Diamonds
- Public Image : Marketing, Social Media
Casas Adobes
- Best Youth Engagement, Public Image & Marketing
- Collaboration & Partnership
- Innovation in Service, 8th Grade Honor Roll Celebration
Dove Mountain
- Collaboration & Partnership, Past Presidents
- Oro Valley Innovation in Service, Guatemala Literacy Project and Adopt A Village
- Collaboration & Partnership, BNI 6 Figure Success Fashion Show Fundraiser
SaddleBrooke
- Collaboration & Partnership
- Corazon “Build a House in a Day
Sierra Vista
- Best Fundraising Event, Independence Day Community Celebration
- Public Image & Marketing, Ride to End Polio team
- Innovation in Service, Project Graduation
Sierra Vista Sunrise
- Collaboration. & Partnership, Project Graduation
- Best Fundraising Event, Rising Sun Run
Tubac
- Collaboration & Partnership, Cleft Palate Project
Tucson
- Innovation in Service, A Different Approach to Community Service Projects
Tucson Kino Interact Club
- Best Youth Engagement, 12 Service Projects
Tucson Verde
- Public Image & Marketing, Tucson Festival of Books/Science City
- Collaboration & Partnership, Solar Panel Installation in the Navajo Nation
- Best Fundraising Event, Sustainable Home & Building Tour
Valle Verde
- Collaboration & Partnership, California Wildfire Rescue Fundraiser
Yuma North End
- Best Fundraising Event, Bowling Fundraiser for Safe House of Yuma
Individual Awards:
- Terry Fleetwood (Benson): Energizer Rotarian
- Robert Miller (Casa Grande): Energizer Rotarian
- Juan Guzman (Fort Yuma): Membership Growth; Energizer Rotarian; Innovation in Service
- Jim Irving (Maricopa): Social Butterfly
- Kati Spencer (Mountain Empire): Innovation in Service; Social Butterfly
- Jane Shurtleff (Oro Valley): Public Image & Marketing
- Jenni Stern (Rainbow): Innovation in Service
- Kim Anderson (Rainbow): Energizer Rotarian
- Kirk Reed (Catalina): Innovation in Service; Walking Billboard
- Jim O’Rourke (Rainbow): Membership Growth
- Rocky Ferrell (Rincon): Super Recruiter
- John Howard (SaddleBrooke): Innovation in Service; Energizer Rotarian
- Kristi Halvorson (SaddleBrooke): Collaboration & Partnership; Walking Billboard
- Harvey Smith (SaddleBrooke): Collaboration & Partnership; Energizer Rotarian
- Jenn Wantz & Jessica Gatman (Sierra Vista Sunrise): Best Youth Engagement
- Jennifer Davis (Sierra Vista Sunrise): Energizer Rotarian
Bill & Kris Hagerl (Sierra Vista Sunrise): Energizer Rotarians - Ginger Leavitt (Tubac): Collaboration & Partnership; Energizer Rotarian
- Tom Maddock (Tubac): Best Fundraising Event
- Matt Blair (Tucson): Membership Growth
- Gloria Platt (Tucson Kino): Energizer Rotarian
- Dennis Bergquist (Tucson Kino): Super Recruiter
- Debra Haddock (Tucson Kino): Social Butterfly
- Emma Carrillo (Tucson Kino): Most Enthusiastic Handshaker
- David Fawcett (Tucson Kino): Walking Billboard
- Laura Ziady (Tucson Sunset): Energizer Rotarian
- Jennifer Sprung (Tucson Verde): Energizer Rotarian
- Brooke McKalip (UA Rotaract): Collaboration & Partnership
- Debbie Chavez (Valle Verde): Innovation in Service
- Rebecca Melgoza (Yuma): Energizer Rotarian
- Natasha Rodrigues (Yuma Crossing): Social Butterfly
- Mike Lundy (Yuma Crossing): Walking Billboard
- Jesus Fuentes (Yuma Crossing): Best Fundraising Event; Innovation in Service
- Fatima Smith (Yuma Crossing): Innovation in Service
- Salvador Gomez (Yuma Crossing): Innovation in Service