We love the people who love the Lake
Since 2014, the League has used our Core Volunteer Program to recognize our most dedicated volunteers — those individuals who have given at least 15 hours over the course of one year volunteering with the League. Active Core Volunteers continue to work at two or more events each year after being welcomed into the program. Some have given more than 300 hours of their time and effort to protect Lake Tahoe!
For their dedication, Core Volunteers get our endless appreciation and special “We are the League” branded gear that’s not available to anyone else. You can join this elite club by joining one of the League’s citizen science programs, or by joining us for an event.
Collectively, our Core Volunteers have spent over 7,000 hours helping to Keep Tahoe Blue! We are proud to highlight our core volunteers and share their outstanding work.
Featured Core Volunteer: Carolyn Usinger
You may have seen Carolyn picking up litter on the north shore – it’s not an uncommon sight. She dedicated over 200 hours to litter cleanups in 2020. In that time, she conducted 125 of her own Tahoe Blue Crew cleanups, collected nearly 1,000 pounds of trash and over 14,000 plastic pieces!
Even if you didn’t see Carolyn in action, you surely enjoyed a cleaner Lake Tahoe environment because of her passionate work. Both the League and the Lake appreciate your hard work, Carolyn.
Active Core Volunteers
| Volunteers who have given 300 hours or more | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Loretta Friedel | Deb Olivieri | Phil Olivieri | Phil Metting van Rijn |
| Meghan Walsh | |||
| Volunteers who have given 100 hours or more | |||
| Bill Beall | Jason Bilek | Karen Cutter | Chris Disney |
| Tara Dobyns | Fritz Eriksen | Bob Harms | Chad Laurence |
| Lynn Lawrence | Dan Mendoza | Casey Metkovich | Kim Metting Van Rijn |
| Naomi Morgan | Jon Ross | Laura Schlim | Lenny Smith |
| Carolyn Usinger | Elaine Welch | ||
| Volunteers who have given between 50-99 hours | |||
| Jim Anderson | Kirsten Bradford | Susie Crowley | Russ Dahler |
| Linda Goodman | Taylor Justice | Ron Kline | Heather Kranz |
| Charleen Maxwell | Savannah Mendoza | Travis Metcalfe | Nancy Ng |
| Soloman Nunnally | Katie Riley | Steve Robison | Vesper Rodriquez |
| Genevieve Sirusaite | |||
| Volunteers who have given up to 49 hours | |||
| David Brown | Gregory Byler | Mike Campbell | Valerie Castejon |
| Jerry Carter | Jill Carter | Veronica Coronado | Sequoia Dawn-Bloch |
| Jennifer Dawn | Coral Dawn-Bloch | Cheryl Delehanty | Pat Disney |
| Yvonne Domingo | Anton Eckert | Jeff Edmonds | Leslie Edmonds |
| Pollyanne Ertis | Brandon Ertis | Scott Foster | Samia Foster |
| Peter Fairley | Kerri Garcia | Tommy Gray | Serena Haver |
| Lynn Hori | Sue Jameson | Mark Jameson | Linda Kenney |
| Victoria Monteleone | Chris Morgan | David Rickabaugh | Joanne Rolfe |
| Hilary Vass | Sabine Villamar | Janet Wesse | Kim Zeman |
Legacy Core Volunteers
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|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Arce | Sherrie Atkinson | Sierra Bedwell | Toby Brown |
| Barbara Brown | Amanda Bunte | Tristan Burnham | Phil Carrol |
| Gabriel Chavez | Kelci Crutchfield | Kathryn Daly | John Dayberry |
| Shaunte Dittmar | Christian Eckert | Dylan Eichenberg | Elisa Escobar |
| Krystle Heaney | Deborah John | Kirk Keil | Elana Keil |
| Jake Keil | Noah Keil | Sophie Kirschenman | Debbie Klee |
| Jouett Kristi | Khoi Le | Aimee Leskovic | Mike Mancillas |
| Tom Maugeri | Ryan McCrone | Charles Moffet | Meredith Murray |
| Simon Norton | Cindy Ochoa | Seyung Oh | Jesse Phillips |
| Greg Psilopoulos | Patty Psilopoulos | Lannette Rangel | Evelyn Rincon |
| Ian Rollf | Sam Ross | Nick Rury | Denise Schutte |
| Dana Spencer | Lacy Stenzel | Donielle Stevens | Sharon Sullivan |
| Keith Tom | Ronald Valencia | Kayla Vass | Brian Walker |
| Kelsey Weist | Russel Wigart | Jeff Fairley | John Garofalos |
| Larissa Harter | Sherry Hao | Thomas Hoke | Diana Nehls |