2025 AHYA Convention - OKC July 17th
Each year AHYA members get together to gain leadership skills, learn what AHYA has to offer, meet other youth from across the country and vote on your new executive leaders.
- In Person
- pick up your exhibitor t-shirt at YNL
- meet other youth from around the country
- participate in some fun activities
- hear from your AHYA board members
- Voting
- Elections will be available online this year!
- Please know how to login to the AHA website to participate and cast your vote for the next AHYA officer team.
- All active youth members are eligible to vote
- Click on the vote now button to access voting
- Voting will be available until July 19th at noon CST
2024 AHA Youth of the Year: Hannah Hiiva, Region 5
At the 2024 Annual AHA Membership Convention Awards Banquet it was announced that Yelm, Washington youth Hannah Hiiva is the recipient of the 2024 AHA Youth of the Year award. Hannah receives the Youth of the Year perpetual trophy as well as a $5,000 scholarship from the Arabian Horse Foundation.
Compassion, humility, and motivation are the foundation of this young woman’s approach to life. She currently takes on a lot of leadership roles within her school and specifically has been interested in the social media side of things. She is the editor in chief of her school yearbook and also very active in her local FFA chapter.
Moreover, our Youth of the Year has and is an important part of the Arabian Horse Youth Association. She has served two years as the Region 5 Youth Director, helping fundraise over $11,000 for their youth account. Beyond this she is involved in helping foster a new junior youth board to help improve the leadership skills of even more youth members and set up more youth for success within AHYA.
Hannah Hiiva is a leader among her peers, serving her breed and others with a selfless attitude and the heart of a champion. AHA is proud to call her our 2024 ‘Youth of the Year’.
AHA would also like to congratulate, Ms Mikayla Clement from Region 12 as the first runner-up for ‘Youth of the Year’ and earning a $1000 scholarship from the Arabian Horse Youth Association and Ms Jatelyn "Bug" Burcham from Region 11 as the second runner-up. Congrats to all!
Past Youth of the Year Winners:
2024 Youth of the Year - Hannah Hiiva
2023 Youth of the Year - Marin McKee
2022 Youth of the Year - Grace Smith
2021 Youth of the Year - Sophia Huffman
2020 Youth of the Year - Caroline Elik
2019 Youth of the Year - Nina Barretts
2018 Youth of the Year - Ashley Lounsberry
2017 Youth of the Year - Morgan "Danika" Overstreet
AHYA Board member Grace Smith has been championing the Are U Okay campaign for Mental Health Awareness. How can we as an Association be more carring about our fellow members and remember to check-in on them to see how they are doing.
