2024杰出青年校友奖

Recipients of the Outstanding Young 校友 Award have achieved a significant level of distinction within their chosen field or have brought extraordinary benefit to the world. They reflect the quality and caliber of today’s HSU students and alumni. 在他们被选中的时候, recipients have graduated from Hardin-Simmons not more than 20 years prior and are not over the age of 45.

The 2024 Outstanding Young 校友 recipients were recognized on Friday, 3月1日, 2024, at Hardin-Simmons大学 with a banquet at which family and friends celebrated their accomplishments.

夫人. Sarah (wesley) Cameron, 12岁

莎拉(韦斯利)卡梅隆 得了B.B.S. 2012年毕业于HSU社会工作专业. She returned home to Arizona and worked with Hands of Hope, a Christian pregnancy center in Tucson. 2013年，她嫁给了丈夫，

亚历克, forming a partnership that God has since used to bless a procession of children and families who have moved through their lives.

After observing the profound needs of kids in the foster care system, Sarah and 亚历克 considered becoming foster parents. Over four years, the couple took in seven separate short-term placements. In 2017, Sarah and 亚历克 opened their home to a sibling group of three girls and one boy.

Seven years later, they and the children are a permanent family.

Sarah works as a foster care trainer with the Christian Family Care Agency using her experience to teach and support other foster families, frequently reminding them that beautiful things come from broken things.

自2020年以来, Sarah has also helped run her in-laws’ event venue, 鼠尾草溪牧场, where she enjoys working with people celebrating joyous occasions.

作为一名HSU学生, 莎拉参与了阿尔法艾奥塔欧米茄, 浸信会学生事工, and Pioneer Drive Baptist Church’s campus ministry. She was also a student worker in HSU’s history department.

Sarah and 亚历克 live with their children in Tucson, where they attend Second Mile Church.

DR. 乔丹·丹尼尔07

约旦丹尼尔 得了B.B.S. degree in sport, fitness, and leisure studies with a minor in leadership in 2007 and an M.E. in sport and recreation management in 2008, both from HSU. 2013年，他获得了博士学位.D. in recreation, parks, and tourism science from Texas A&米大学. He began working as an instructor at Angelo State University the same year and is currently an associate professor in the department of kinesiology.

Jordan played football with HSU coach Jimmie Keeling’s ’15 H.D. program for four years, captaining the squad as a senior. He was a 领导 Program ambassador and worked as a resident advisor and dorm director. Later, he served under coach Jesse Burleson ’00/’17 as a football and strength graduate assistant.

在安吉洛州立大学, Jordan is recognized on campus for his distinctive bowties, 的风度, 以及与学生沟通的能力. 他获得了无数的教学荣誉, 包括2020年亚利桑那州立大学教师成就奖, and is known as one of Angelo State Recruiting’s secret weapons. 他是一个积极主动的创造者, establishing and hosting a popular Texas 娱乐 and Park Society podcast and spearheading the Angelo State University Values Conference. He also holds the 2022 Guinness World Record for a Zercher Squat of 650 lbs.

Jordan and his wife Jill have three daughters and attend Southland Baptist Church in San Angelo

DR. Ben lovvorn ' 04

本Lovvorn graduated with honors from Hardin-Simmons in 2004, earning a B.B.A. in business management with an emphasis in finance and leadership studies. He received a Juris Doctorate from Baylor Law School in 2007 and, in 2023, earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Christian 领导 in Ministry from Liberty University School of Divinity.

作为一名HSU学生, Ben was named to the dean’s and president’s lists and received the Outstanding Management Student Award and the John Wood Award in Business Ethics. He was a member of Delta Mu Delta, the National Honor Society of Business 政府. 他也玩

参加了三个赛季的校队, during which he was a two-time varsity letterman and All-Academic team member.

法学院毕业后, Ben practiced commercial law before God unexpectedly opened a door for him to serve at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano. Ben became the director of 政府 and 操作, 管理着三个校区和30多个校区,000个成员.

三年后, he was named executive pastor of First Baptist Dallas, where he now leads a staff of more than 150 and a congregation of 16,000. 他管理教会的事工, 政府, 操作, 财务状况, 筹款, 建设项目, 和更多的, 也是达拉斯第一传媒的总裁, which operates one of the nation’s most popular Christian radio stations.

Ben and his wife, Parris, live with their five children in Carrollton.