2022 Pink Scarf Honorees

3/19/2022

Sarah Banda was born and raised in Las Vegas, played soccer at Bishop Gorman High School, and is an attorney at Naqvi Injury Law. She was the reigning Mrs. Nevada-America and got to work with numerous nonprofits, charities, and youth development programs here in the community including; Candle Lighter’s Childhood Cancer Foundation, Victoria’s Voice Foundation, and Girls on the Run.

3/26/2022

Jenny Ruiz is the first former UNLV women’s soccer player to return to the program as head coach, becoming the seventh rebel head coach in 2019. Under her leadership, UNLV has four Mountain West All-Conference selections and 38 Academic All-Mountain West recipients. Professionally, she competed for the Mexican National Team at the highest level. She earned medals at three Pan American games, qualified for the Olympics and played at the FIFA World Cup.

4/9/2022

Erick Harper was named UNLV’s newest athletic director effective January 1, 2022. He had served the previous nine years as UNLV’s senior associate athletics director for development. For more than 30 years, Harper has been in university athletics administration and joined UNLV in 2012.

4/16/2022

With our partnership with the Department of Family Services, we invited a local foster family to represent all foster families in Las Vegas. There are more than 3,000 kids in foster care here and we’re honored to be able to present our honorary pink scarf to one. You can visit Clark County Foster Care.com to learn more on how you can make a difference.

4/23/2022

Stephanie was here on behalf of the Kline Veterans Fund to receive the honorary pink scarf. The Kline Veterans Fund is a Las Vegas based nonprofit organization that provides emergency housing assistance to homeless and at-risk veterans and their families in Southern Nevada.

5/14/2022

Scott Arkills serves as President/CEO of Silver State Schools Credit Union (SSSCU) in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this capacity, he leads a $1.15 Billion Asset, 57,000-member credit union. SSSCU places a premium on excellent member service and Prioritizing People Over Profit and has been recognized as the Gold Award winner (Best Credit Union in Las Vegas) for 4 consecutive years (2018-2021).

5/27/2022

Dr. Johnson oversees the office of Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, among other things, which houses their tobacco control program. His leadership and support has been instrumental in the tobacco control successes.

6/11/2022

Our charity of the match was the Ronald McDonald House for the game against Orange County and there to receive the honorary pink scarf was Jacqueline Cruz, the chief development officer. The Ronald McDonald House provides temporary housing to families with hospitalized children. They support the family centered care of children to ensure their family members can fully focus on the recovery of their child.

6/24/2022

Nina Gallagher was here representing our charity of the match Helping Hands of Vegas Valley. They are a nonprofit whose mission is to improve the quality of life for senior citizens and their families in order to maintain their dignity and independence.

7/2/2022

Julius began his career at Findlay Chevrolet on Oct. 25, 2011 as a service porter and worked his way up to becoming the assistant new & used car manager, as well as a lot manager. He made a huge impact at Findlay Chevrolet with his hard work and fun personality.

7/27/2022

Robert is an 18 year veteran of the building and construction industry. He has extensive experience in residential and corporate development and is now the executive director for Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada, a nonprofit affiliate organization that provides free home repair and accessibility modifications for low income homeowners, particularly seniors, veterans, multigenerational families, and disabled homeowners.

8/20/2022

Anthony was a second year apprentice with the plumber, pipe fitters, service & HVAC Local 525. He accepted the honorary pink scarf as the representative of the apprenticeship for the Local.

8/27/2022

Kelly has always been an animal lover and having been born with a disability meant she could always have a service dog by her side. Kelly works with the HAV team to manage communication with fosters and adopters. She also ensures that all animal data is up to date, which at any time can be up to 400 animals!

9/24/2022

Francisco Aguilar moved to Nevada more than 20 years ago and has spent his time working to improve the Silver State as an active member of his communities. One of the roles he is proudest of was becoming the founding Chairman of Cristo Rey St. Viator Board of Trustees. Cristo Rey serves students in one of Las Vegas’ most vulnerable neighborhoods, and provides a work-study program designed to prepare them for future careers. 

9/27/2022

Dollie Llama and the Llama Mama have been with us for every single game since the start of our inaugural season in 2018! We wanted to honor them both with our pink scarf for our game against Monterey Bay FC.

9/30/2022

In 2014, Chris installed the first Bitcoin ATM on the Las Vegas Strip, then continued to place machines while upgrading the technology and options to create a new class of digital currency machines. Now there are over 5,000 Coin Cloud DCM’s across the USA and Brazil to empower everyone to buy and sell cryptocurrency.

10/8/2022

Michele Klimke was our honorary pink scarf recipient on our stand up to cancer night. She is an 11 year breast cancer survivor and a Comprehensive Cancer Centers employee. In December 2011, she was diagnosed and years later she’s standing right here with us!