Alumni Profiles

During his time at Pinewood, Derek was captain of the inaugural baseball team, a member of the National Honor Society, president of the ASB, and the valedictorian of his class. He now serves as both an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and a specialist in arthritis and joint replacement at Stanford. Derek fondly recalls Laurie Eickmeier's English class, which, although challenging, helped him develop the essential communication skills he still relies on today as the lead author of over three hundred medical publications.

Congratulations to Katy Digovich '03, who was recently inducted into the Pinewood Athletics Hall of Fame! Katy went on to play basketball for Princeton, where she was part of the Ivy League all-rookie team in 2004. She is now the CEO and co-founder of Minutia, a cell therapy company working to provide an alternative to traditional insulin for the treatment of Type I diabetes. We couldn't be more proud of her as both an athlete and a change-maker!

After fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, Sarina recently launched her own clinical psychology and performance coaching practice. “What I
love about Pinewood's literature and humanities education is that it got me to ask big questions early on, like, 'What does success mean beyond good grades? What does it mean to be a good person? It turns out I love the pursuit of big questions, and I feel really lucky that Pinewood started me on this big-thinking journey, and that in my career I can help individuals navigate these big questions.”

Hannah Jump ‘19 excelled on and off the court at Stanford, where she graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters in Communication - and remains their 3-point record holder. She now plays professionally for Turkey and Great Britain, for whom she is a silver medalist from the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham England. “Rigorous basketball and rigorous academics is exactly what I was getting at Stanford, and Pinewood set me up really well for that.”