Past Star Award Recipients

National FFA and Kansas FFA annually recognizes FFA members who rise to the top with the Star Awards. These members have gone above and beyond in their attitude, involvement, community service and supervised agricultural experience. Finalists for these awards have mastered skills in production, finance, and management.

American FFA Star Winners from Kansas

2017	Austin Nordyke	Hugoton	Star in Agribusiness
2011	Alex Goeckel	Washington County	Star in Ag Placement
2007	Caleb Alexander	Garden City	Star in Agribusiness
2003	Orrin Holle	Atwood	Star Farmer
2002	Kyle Cott	Clay Center	Star in Ag Placement
2001	Steven Friess	Labette County	Star Farmer
1999	Michael Springer	Neodesha	Star Farmer
1982	Kevin Robinson	Mission Valley	Star Farmer
1975	Dan Worcester	Hill City	Star Farmer
1957	Jim Jarnigan	Jetmore	Star Farmer
1935	Paul Leck	Washington	Star Farmer

Kansas FFA Star Winners

	Star Farmer	Star in Agribusiness	Star in Ag Placement
2026	Cole Dieball – Little River	Karli Haase – Ellsworth	Mary Vajnar – Hays
2025	Dustin Denton – Valley Heights	Ethan Kniesler – Lyndon	Tucker Leck – Neodesha
2024	Adelle Higbie – West Franklin	Andrew Garman – Pike Valley	Noah Wiley – Labette County
2023	Ella Pachta – Republic County	Christian Peña – Sublette	Abigail Porter – Beloit
2022	Aidan Yoho – Yates Center	Karlie Albright – Royal Valley	Katina Bartel – Holton
2021	Wesley Denton – Valley Heights	Jay McClure – Hugoton	Nicole Haase – Ellsworth
2020	Levi Mewies – Iola	Austin Simon – Renwick	Tyler Nelson – Washington County
2019	Ethan Dickerson – Natoma	Kylar Lee – Burlington	Emily Swiger – Coffeyville
2018	Natalie Hawkins – Atwood	Emily Glenn – Scott City	Ryan Stewart – Washington County
2017	Tyler Phillips – Mission Valley	Cordell Waggoner – Haven	Deven Foster – Labette County
2016	Samantha Beauchamp – Holton	Austin Nordyke – Hugoton	Cole Riggin – Riverton
2015	Wyatt Harting – Norton	Tate Tremblay – Hill City	Kord Curran – Girard
2014	Caleb Obermeyer – Marysville	Stone Hayden – Chapman	Tristan Davis – Central Heights
2013	Zachary Foster – Labette County	Bryan Otott – Washington County	Rich Ryckert – Paola
2012	Greg Harris – Chapman	Ethan Schwarz – Oakley	Nathan Doss – Washington County
2011	Kaden Rousch – Smith Center	Nicholas Peckman – Paola	Dalton Black – Buhler
2010	Tyler Rose – Washington County	Kayla Schmitz – Doniphan West	Alex Goeckel – Washington County
2009	Ben Meyer – Linn	Garrett Lister – Marysville	Tucker Stewart – Washington County
2008	Miles Theurer – South Haven	Ben Hutto – Riverton	Jesse Muller – Labette County
2007	Eric Bekemeyer – Washington County	Ryan Windholz – Hays	Kally Hood – Rock Creek
2006	Clarke Nelson – Northern Valley	Jay Stamm – Washington	D. Austin Winter – Holton
2005	Kyler Ohlde – Linn	Alex Gottlob – Winfield	Kyle Smith – Arkansas City
2004	Chris Bamberger – Jetmore	Caleb Alexander – Garden City	Clint Wahrman – Atwood
2003	Chase Bontrager – Holton	Damian Helms – Linn	Brock Peters – Linn
2002	Brent Overmiller – Smith Center	Tyler Diepenbrock – Centre	Edwin Cooper – Altoona-Midway
2001	Caleb McNally – South Barber	Joey McNaul – Buhler
2000	Orrin Holle, Atwood	Angela Bramlage – Troy
1999	Anthony Heigert – Wabaunsee	Michael Cosseman, Jetmore
1998	Steven Friess – Labette County	Clint Church – Iola
1997	Ervin Underwood – Mankato	Dale Brown – Girard
1996	Michael Springer – Neodesha	Nathan Shaffer – Smith Center
1995	Elizabeth Neufeld – Inman	Ryan Reiff – Chapman
1994	Ryan Higbie – Williamsburg	Trevor Lieb – Pike Valley
1993	Jerrod Westfahl – Haven	Chris Cairns, Concordia
1992	Brian Sinn – North Central	Kim Whitney – Norton
1991	Robert Duey – North Central	Brian Biddle – Winfield
1990	Leland Porter – Clay Center	Steven J. Elstrom – Salina
1989	John Stika – Centre	Jackie Coltrane – Southeast
1988	Brad Grabs – Chaparral	Mark Stenho – Belleville
1987	Bruce Livingston – North Central	Tray Rudman – Paola
1986	Tim Turek – South Haven	Devan Sarvar – Iola
1985	Brad Swearingen – Hiawatha	Kevin Pool – Coffeyville
1984	Matt Wineinger – Marion-Florence	Todd Stritzke – Caney
1983	Jeff Ochampaugh – Plainville	David Pachta – Belleville
1982	Loren Pachta – Belleville	Mike Torrey – Wamego
1981	Darrin Jesse – Southeast	Daryl Cress – Fredonia
1980	David Crosson – Minneapolis	Larry Wiezorek – Washburn Rural
1979	Kevin Robinson – Mission Valley	Mike Disberger – Haven
1978	Michael Smith – Norton	R. Joe Harris – Erie
1977	Lorena Croucher – Garnett	C.J. Riemann, Hill City
1976	Monte Jessup – Phillipsburg	Charles Hatch – Salina
1975	Jeff Stroup – Prairie View	John Bennett – Erie
1974	Kenneth Lankard – Garnett	Vaughn Kirland – Dodge City
1973	Alan Ochs – Jetmore
1972	Don Garlow – Concordia
1971	Dennis Bradford – Jetmore
1970	Ron Roth – Clay Center
1969	W. Benson Keil – Concordia
1968	Kenneth Conway – Plainville
1967	Michael T. Samples – Erie
1966	Robert E. Wiles – Leoti
1965	Myron D. Schmidt – Goessel
1964	Donald McLaughlin – Stockton
1963	Vernon Mathes – Harper
1962	Dennie Dechert – Colby
1961	Ronald Mercer – Columbus
1960	Terry Hager – Norton
1959	Clint Birkenbaugh – Kingman
1958	Eldon Eastman – Arkansas City
1957	Leo Schwartz – Hanover