The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will rush during Spring Quarter as part of our year-round commitment to recruitment. We will be holding rush events during week 1 of Spring Quarter, be sure to check out our rush schedule, if you need more information regarding the greek system check out our Why Go Greek page. More specifically, if you need more information regarding our fraternity, check out the Why Pike page.

If you have any questions, please contact our recruitment committee, you can find their information and their positions here.

On Saturday July 28th, at Pike University's The Academy, the UC Irvine Lambda Lambda Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha was awarded with Pi Kappa Alpha's most prestigious honor, the Robert Adger Smythe Award. The Smythe award is given to the chapters of Pike that exemplify the values of the fraternity and dominate their respective campuses. The winners of this award are truly the best that Pi Kappa Alpha has to offer. Lambda Lambda was one of only 17 chapters that received this award internationally. With over 220 chapters, this puts Lambda Lambda in the top 7% of all Pike chapters.

Brothers Ryan Perlman, Kenny Lim, Brandon Williams, Mike Lopez and Scott Feuchter were on hand to receive not only this award but to also receive Lambda Lambda's second straight Chapter Excellence Award, the fourth straight 100% Phi Phi Kappa Alpha Participation Award for the entire chapter donating $20 to the Pi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation, the 20/20 Recruitment Award given to the chapters that have increased their membership by 20% in the past year, and the runner up in the award for top finances in all of Pike. In the end Lambda Lambda was rewarded for their hard work and dedication to both the fraternity and their community, and we look forward to making the coming year even more successful.

Summertime for most is a time to relax and enjoy the wonderful weather that Southern California has to offer. For Pike, it is about having fun and preparing for the coming year. This holds true for intramural sports as well. The men of Pike have spent the summer preparing to defend their BACK TO BACK Flag Football Championships with practices several times a week. Along with returning starters, the brothers are working in new faces, in order to fully prepare the entire team for the competitiveness of the IFC Flag Football league.

Other than football, Pike is hard at work in all Fall sports, including preparing for Volleyball, whose team last year finished in second place, Ultimate Frisbee, third place last year, and Tennis. Pi Kappa Alpha plans on dominating each and every time they step on the athletic field, and both hard work and practice will make it happen.

Pi Kappa Alpha finished the school year strong with successful performances on the athletic fields. The Bowling team, consisting of brothers George O'Keefe, Jaz Singh, Danny Longmire, and Chris Gutierrez successfully defended their title and took home Pike's second straight championship. The Sports Trivia team, consisting of brothers John Ernenputsch, Brandon Grant, Ryan Driscoll, Russell Curry and George O'Keefe also tasted victory with a closely contested championship match that came down to a tiebreaker question. The Softball team also had a successful season with a third place finish in the All University Tournament.

The story of the quarter though, was the Pike Floor Hockey team. Prior to this year Pike had never excelled in Floor Hockey, but against all expectations, the team made it to the championship game after narrowly making it into the playoffs. After a well played Spring quarter the athletes of Pi Kappa Alpha are eagerly anticipating the coming intramural season.

This past spring Lambda Lambda rewarded the young women that have been a crucial part to the chapter's young history. After a vote from the brethren, Sarah Michelle Colburn from Pi Beta Phi, Stella Cho from Kappa Alpha Theta and Alexandra Harris from Gamma Phi Beta were crowned as Pi Kappa Alpha Dream Girls. This occurred on June 2nd at Lambda Lambda's Palm Spring Formal. These ladies were presented with Pi Kappa Alpha letters, and the chapter is confident that these three wonderful ladies will wear the letters Pi Kappa Alpha with pride.

From left to right...
Alex Harris (Gamma Phi Beta), Stella Cho (Kappa Alpha Theta), & Sarah Michelle Colburn (Pi Beta Phi)

Also rewarded were several other women that have devoted time far and above many others. These girls were given the title Pike Girls and given a Pike Girl T-Shirt. The recipients of this title included Jessica Ramirez and Cherie Hayes from Pi Beta Phi, Amanda Sorrentino from Alpha Phi, Kirstin Nakagawa from Delta Delta Delta, and two alumni, Ashley Dyer and Michelle Pruna from Delta Delta Delta.

Lambda Lambda had a strong showing at the 3rd annual Relay For Life charity event hosted by the American Cancer Society on April 28-29. The chapter had a busy weekend setting up and manning the most popular booth at this 24-hour event held in Aldrich Park. Specializing in lung cancer, our spring Iota class participated in and won numerous events including: Capture the Flag, Water Balloon Toss, Relay Idol, and Miss Relay.

These successes materialized in helping Pike win the Spirit Award for excellence in participation. Whether its playing a game of football, soccer, or baseball during the day; or throwing a lit-up frisbee and barbecuing burgers and hot-dogs in the evening, Pikes showed the UCI campus how to have fun while helping out the community, And on top of all this, a $1000 donation was made on our organizations behalf, helping the event raise over $50,000.

In February the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha hosted an electronic waste recycling program. They collected various items such as old computer monitors, printers, print cartridges, and more. All proceeds earned from this event will benefit a charitable cause.

If you or your business has old electronics that need to be disposed, feel free to contact us to arrange a free pickup. Our next E-Waste event will be held Saturday, March 3rd at the Sam's Clubs located in Irvine. Stop by and drop off all your old electronics.

UC Irvine's Lambda Lambda chapter hosted its 2nd annual Founder's Day Football Tournament. The event was a huge success and united PIKE chapters and sorority chapters from several campuses across California. Participants included: UC Irvine PIKES, Alpha Phis, Tri Delts, and Gamma Phi Betas; Chapman PIKES, Alpha Phis, and Gamma Phi Betas, Cal Poly Pomona PIKES and Zeta Tau Alphas, USC PIKES, UC Santa Barbara PIKES, UC Riverside PIKES, Fresno State PIKES, as well as UCLA PIKES. All proceeds from this event benefited the American Heart Association.

With over 300 people in attendance and over 2500 man hours put into this event, the UC Irvine Lambda Lambda chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha hopes to continue this tradition every year, hoping to bring in larger crowds and more PIKE chapters and sororities from all over California.

To view more photos from the event, please visit our photo gallery.

College is a time to not only broaden your views of the world and build lifetime friendships, but also a time to expand your knowledge and prepare yourself to succeed in whatever you choose your future career to be. Lambda Lambda realizes this and we make sure that scholarship is a very important component of our chapter, and that we take it very seriously.

Most recently in Winter Quarter 2007, the Lambda Lambda chapter greatly increased its overall GPA to a 3.012 ranking the chapter 2nd place in all Fraternities on campus and 12th place amongst all Greek organizations. This also ranks above UC Irvine’s all-men’s, all-undergraduate, all-women’s, all-fraternity, all-IFC, all-Greek, all-Sorority, and all-Panhellenic grade point averages.

Our chapter offers group study hours bi-weekly to encourage brothers to work harder and seek assistance from each other, in order to earn a GPA that they will be proud of. At study hours the fraternity, through the scholarship chair’s budget, provides snacks for those who attend, which we have found to increase overall attendance, and this has been correlated with an increase in the chapter GPA.

The Lambda Lambda chapter gives the highest priority to academic excellence by providing scholastic programming and aid to all its members. Along with the study hours, another service our chapter extends to its members is the subsidization of LARC Tutoring for members falling below the required chapter GPA. LARC at UC Irvine stands for The Learning and Academic Resource Center, and it is the most popular student service on campus. Meeting once or twice a week, the tutoring costs $60 per class per quarter, and Lambda Lambda feels that if individuals are failing to achieve their grades, then this is the least we can do for them, in their journey to achieve a better GPA.

On August 2nd through the 5th the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity held it's 65th International Convention at the Walt Disney World Hilton Hotel and Resort in Orlando, Florida. The Lambda Lambda chapter sent eight brothers, and came back with many prestigious recognitions.

All of the hard work that all the brothers of Pike worldwide put in during the whole year was celebrated and in the end Lambda Lambda was one of 37 chapters to receive a Chapter Excellence Award. Other recognition given to Lambda Lambda include 100% Phi Phi Kappa Alpha Educational Foundation donors, finalists for the Alumni Relations Award, and the Man Miles Award. The eight men from Lambda Lambda that attended traveled a combined total of 45,187 miles. Chapter Adviser Bram Govaars' dedication and passion for Lambda Lambda was also celebrated as he was recognized as being Pi Kappa Alpha's Alumni Adviser of the year.

A Pike University event would not be a Pike University event without the premier programming that puts Pi Kappa Alpha at the forefront of leadership training. Two of Lambda Lambda's brothers, Francis Tan and Andre Ramirez, were recognized for attending their fifth Pike University event. The leadership workshops taught each and every brother that attended, valuable skills that every Pi K A will be able to bring back to their respective chapters.

The next Pike U Leadership Summit will be held October 27-29 right down the street in Costa Mesa, CA. The 8 Lambda Lambda brothers that attended had the time of their lives in Florida, but most importantly they bonded with brothers and learned from each and every Pi K A that they interacted with. Each received top notch leadership training from very succesful CEOs, Laywers, and Entrepreuners from around our country.

Appearing in the photo from left to right: Blake Lucchesi (President), Brandon Grant, Jeffrey Botwin (Treasurer), Will Kleindeinst, Andre Ramirez (Former President), John Ernenputsch, Chris Gutierrez, Bram Govaars (Alumni Advisor), and Francis Tan.

The Pikes ended off the 2005-2006 intramural sports season in style with a Softball championship. On June 7th the men of Pi Kappa Alpha defeated SAE by one run in a thrilling game that came down to the final at bat. In the bottom of the 7th inning SAE was down a single run and was threatening with bases loaded and one out. With a fly ball to make it two outs, the game came down to the final at bat. In most dramatic fashion the game ended on a sharp ground ball up the middle. Shortstop Kyle Sakai made the grab and flipped the ball to second baseman Chris Gutierrez to end the game.

All the hard work had paid off, the men of Pi Kappa Alpha became the champions of IFC softball. The intramural season was a success as Pike became the only fraternity to win a major sport in all three quarters (IFC Football in the fall, ALl-U Soccer in the Winter).

On Saturday March 4th, 2006 we hosted a Southern California Pike Football Tournament and Alumni BBQ. This event saw over 100 brothers from local Pike chapters. There were teams represented by UCI, UCSD, Chapman, Cal Poly Pomona and a UCI alumni team. Also in attendance were Chapman and UCI's Chapter Advisors, Adam Riffe and Bram Govaars, and President of the OC Alumni Association, Ron Hutzel.

Our now annual football tournament was a great time to celebrate the founding of our fraternity, and to further solidify our bonds as brothers. This event has brought the chapters that participated closer together, and has expanded the opportunity to have further joint events in the future. The event was such a success that it will become an annual tournament, with the winner taking possession of the trophy for the entire year. Next year there is projected to be over 250 brothers participating, and several more chapters added to the current teams that played this year.