Amy Bublak arrived at Stanislaus State in 1983 with two goals: to play sports and distance herself from her hometown of Latrobe in El Dorado County.
The 1989 graduate did so much more, emerging as the epitome of a Warrior.
The Mayor of Turlock, serving her second four-year term after re-election in 2022, is hard-pressed to explain her improbable journey, from unhappy childhood to athletics success, bachelor’s degree in sociology, president of Stan State’s Associated Students, Inc., police officer and the leader of a city of 73,000.