Student Awards
2021 Award Winners
We take pride in our students for their remarkable academic and extra-curricular achievements, and commitment to give back to the community.
2021 Excellence in Leadership and Scholarship Award
- Ashley Flynn, Marketing
- Kyle Cusick, Finance
- Gabe Morrison, MIS
- Samantha Dowdy, Accounting
- Audrey Bull, Business Administration
- Nathaniel Cameron, Business Pre-Law
- Brin Nutter, Entrepreneurship
- Lily DeNoma, International Business
- Hannah Strickling, Management & Strategic Leadership
- Cayla Cavris, Business Analytics
- KJ Russell, Sport Management
2021 Special Awards
Hellebrandt Award
This award was established in honor of Dr. Edwin T. Hellebrandt, a distinguished member of the College of Business鈥 management systems department for more than 50 years. The award seeks to recognize students for outstanding achievement during their undergraduate years at 帝王会所.
Olivia Stokes and Andrew Sayer
The Office of Career Management Student Leadership Award
This award is presented to the student that served their fellow students as president of one of the college's student organizations.
Brody Gilliand
SAF Alumni Relations Scholarship
This award recognizes significant achievement in Alumni Relations.
Hayley Brown, Adison McClain, Samuel Neal, and Hannah Protsik
William Day Award
Named in honor of Dr. William Day, former Dean of the College of Business, this award recognizes a student for outstanding academic achievement including multicultural experience and language proficiency.
Kathryn Berkemeyer
Wolfe Scholars Awards
This award is presented to the junior and senior with the highest GPA.
Olivia Madden (junior) and Mitchell Liston (senior)
Senior Class for the College of Business Faculty Recognition Award
Mark Rowe
2021 Student Organization Awards
Outstanding Student Organization
This award goes to an organization that has made a significant impact on 帝王会所 and the Athens community, provided innovative programming, excellent recruitment and development of members, and actively supports the mission of the College of Business.
OHIO Women in Business
Selective Outstanding Student Organization
This award goes to an organization that has made a significant impact on 帝王会所 and the Athens community, provided innovative programming, excellent recruitment and development of members, and actively supports the mission of the College of Business.
Emerging Leaders
2021 Analytics & Information Systems Department Awards
MIS Student of the Year Award
Recognized as an outstanding overall MIS student (areas considered include excellence in coursework, collaboration activities with faculty and other students, involvement in research projects, involvement in projects outside of class, other awards and recognitions, community activities, and leadership in student groups)
Gabe Morrison
Analytics Student of the Year Award
Recognized as an outstanding overall Analytics student (areas considered include excellence in coursework, collaboration activities with faculty and other students, involvement in research projects, involvement in projects outside of class, other awards and recognitions, community activities, and leadership in student groups)
Cayla Cavris
MIS Excellence Award
Student that has excelled and made a positive impact in areas related to MIS (including coursework, student groups, industry groups, internships, work experiences, research, and volunteer activities).
Madison Keller, Allison Kiefer, and Mitchell Wright
Analytics Excellence Award
Student that has excelled and made a positive impact in areas related to Analytics (including coursework, student groups, industry groups, internships, work experiences, research, and volunteer activities).
Nicole Eichberger, Anibel Neill, and Dale Wilson
AIS Diversity Award
Student that has excelled AIS areas and overcome challenges coming from a diverse or challenging background.
Saif Al Zawawi
AIS ISAP Excellence Award
Student that has excelled in AIS areas and made a difference with the ISAP student group.
Ian Patton
Management Department
Resilience Award
This award is presented to a Management Department student who exhibited strength and resilience in meeting life's challenges
Christian Velez-Brown
Marketing Department
David and Ruth Richmond Award
This award is named for Dr. David Richmond, a marketing professor who retired in 1984, and his wife, Ruth. The award is given to a senior who has displayed leadership as a marketing major and has a minimum GPA of a 3.2. In addition to GPA, students are selected based on work experience, academic activities, a written essay about the marketing major, and recommendations from marketing faculty.
Farrah Kozyr-Verni
Marketing Department Citizenship Award
This award recognizes an outstanding graduating senior who has made significant contributions to the Marketing Department through scholarship, leadership, and co-curricular involvement.
Lexi DeBord
2021 Sports Administration Awards
Leadership in Sport Management Award
This award goes to a senior sport management student who has demonstrated strong leadership that made significant impact on his or her peers in the sport management program.
Rhi Lucas
Dan Lowe Memorial Sport Management Scholarship
Dan Lowe, BSJ '03, was the first member of the Ozone Student Section established by the OHIO Athletic Department, and he was known as OHIO's Number 1 fan. He became promotions coordinator in the Athletic Department and established a career promoting all of OHIO's sports with the same enthusiasm that he had as a student. He died suddenly in 2005 at the age of 24 during a pick-up basketball game in the Convocation Center.
Jessica Butterly, Cade Cooper, Nathan Doerfler, Micaylah Nash, Jessica North, Darel Rodriguez, Aundrea Rog, and Lillian Wittman
Dow and Linda Finsterwald Sport Management Scholarship
This award honors Dow Finsterwald, AB 鈥52, who joined the PGA Tour shortly after graduating from 帝王会所 and eventually won the PGA Championship in 1958. The award recipient is an undergraduate sports management student seeking a summer internship with the PGA Tour.
Daniel Kill
Brad Moorehead Scholarship
This award goes to a senior sport management student that has demonstrated academic aptitude with a minimum 3.0 GPA. Scholarship applicants must participate in an essay competition, and the most compelling essay is awarded the scholarship. This award honors Brad Moorhead, a former sport management student who tragically passed away in an auto accident in 2004.
Maxwell Meehan
Center for Consumer Research and Analytics
Center for Consumer Research and Analytics Award
This award recognizes a CRC Fellow who has made a significant impact on the CRC Fellow program through their leadership and contributions.
Derek Tittle
The Ralph and Luci Schey Sales Centre
Robert & Jean Axline and William & Barbara Axline Scholarship
The Axline family have been some of the strongest supporters of sales education at 帝王会所 extending even prior to the founding of 鈥淭he Sales Centre鈥 and the renaming to the Schey Sales Centre. This award recognizes the student leaders in the program who have had a positive impact on pushing the program forward. Just like the Axline鈥檚 themselves, the winners of this scholarship represent some of the finest students 帝王会所 has ever produced.
Vincent Eguakun and Julia Mattox
Dr. Ralph E. and Lucille M. Schey Scholarship
Ralph Schey is a Bobcat exemplar. Having graduated from 帝王会所 and launching an incredibly successful business career, he turned his eyes toward supporting and ultimately naming the Schey Sales Centre. The Schey Scholarship is the largest scholarship the program awards to junior students who, like Ralph, serve as role-models for the next generation through their actions and leading by example. The winners have typically held multiple leadership positions in the Schey and have consistently gone above and beyond to raise everyone in the program up.
Delaney Allen, Alex Berbari, Alyssa D'Egidio, Sam Healey, Ashley Mullins, and Taylor Pipero