2025 Winner: Darrin Mayweather

Chef Darrin Mayweather, Grand Rapids Community College’s (GRCC) 2025 Young Alumni Award Winner, was at a pivotal crossroads in his teen years, facing the choice between getting a job or going to bootcamp. Mayweather started working as a dishwasher, not realizing this choice would open doors for his future career in the kitchen.
About the Young Alumni Award
The GRCC Young Alumni Award will be awarded to an alumnae or alumnus who is under the age of 40 as of Dec 31 in the year submitted. This award recognizes an outstanding alumni who have distinguished themselves at this stage of life through:
- Exceptional accomplishment in their chosen profession.
- Exceptional community or civic service.
- Exceptional service in support of GRCC.
The Young Alumni Award was created in 2021 and will first be awarded in 2022 to recognize GRCC Alumni identified as being outstanding in their professions and to present such alumni to current GRCC students as examples of exceptional achievement and hard work.
The nomination deadline for this award is December 31, 2024.