Bob Kenworthy Community Service Award

Presented annually to a College Sports Communicators member for civic involvement, community service and accomplishments within and/or outside of the athletics communications profession. Voted on by the Special Awards Committee.***

Bob Kenworthy served as SID at Gettysburg College and was the first recipient of the award. He is a College Sports Communicators Hall of Famer.

Bob Kenworthy Community Service Award Recipients

2026 Travis Jarome – Jackson State University

2025 Mary Beth Challoner – University of Toronto

2024 Greg Pellegrino – Penn State Abington

2023 Jeremy Rosenthal – University of Texas

2022 Blake Timm – Great Northwest Athletic Conference

2021 Chris Mitchell – Granite City School District

2020 Patrick Walsh – Arkansas at Little Rock

2019 Kenisha Rhone – Belmont

2018 Chris Wenzler – John Carroll

2017 Larry Dougherty – Temple

2016 J.D. Hamilton – NCAA

2015 Ken DeBolt – Hobart and William Smith Colleges

2014 Sam Atkinson – Gallaudet

2013 Jamie Weir Baldwin – Michigan State

2012 Rich Herman – Clarion

2011 Dr. Bill Smith – Arkansas

2010 Tim Kennedy – Gustavus Adolphus

2009 Doug Hauschild – Dayton

2008 Debbie Copp – Oklahoma

2007 Dave Wohlhueter – Cornell (retired)

2006 Judy Willson – Louisiana-Monroe

2005 Edward Hill, Jr. – Howard University

2004 Bob Nygaard – Minnesota-Duluth

2003 David Sherwood – Wingate

2002 Becky Paull – Idaho

2001 Lonza Hardy Jr. – Southwestern Athletic Conference

2000 Will Keener – Calfornia State Stanislaus

1999 Jack Grinold – Northeastern

1998 Bill Hamilton – South Carolina State

1997 Norman Gough – Mississippi College

1996 Sheila Stevenson – Rowan College

1995 Wylie Smith – Northern Arizona