Honored Alumni

The Honored Alumni Award is the highest honor bestowed upon Cal Poly alumni by the University’s Alumni Association. The award was established more than 50 years ago by the Association to provide recognition for outstanding graduates and former students of Cal Poly.

One Honored Alumni Award recipient is chosen every year from the University’s six colleges. Awardees are honored each year during Homecoming at the Honored Alumni Banquet.

2024 Honoree

 

 

Tracy Pezzini
Agricultural Business, ‘86  

Tracy Pezzini (’86 Agricultural Business) is the director of livestock operations for Bengard Ranch, a multigenerational farm that has been a premier grower in the Salinas valley since the 1850s and is one of the region’s larger grower-shippers with operations in California, Arizona, Florida and Mexico. The contributions she and her family have made to agriculture are vast.

Both of Tracy’s children are Cal Poly alumni: Haley (’17 Agricultural Business) and Wesley (’19 Animal Science). She has served on the college's Dean's Advisory Council since 2017. Tracy is extremely proud of her Cal Poly heritage and has provided the college with invaluable counsel on numerous issues.