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Scholarship & Internship Grant Program - 2/8/23

Date postedFebruary 8, 2023
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2026-27 CSC Scholarships and Grants Program

Applications Open: Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 at Noon (ET)

Application Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM (ET)

CSC will offer the following scholarship and grant opportunities for current dues-paying CSC members.

Please review the applications now, and as you begin to gather the required information, be sure to share this form with your references so they can submit their recommendations directly to CSC.

Questions? Direct them to:

Scholarships Committee Chair
Brian Fremund, Vanderbilt University Assistant AD/Communications
brian.fremund@vanderbilt.edu
(251) 623-3191

CSC Staff Liaison
Becky Griesmer, CSC Director of Operations and Professional Development
becky@cscommunicators.com
(216) 374-2677

About CSC's different types of scholarships and grants

(3 new recipients each year, renewable up to 4 total years - $1,000 per school year)

Application Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM (ET)

No late applications will be accepted.

Committee Coordinator: Steven Olveda, Chapman University, Sports Information Director (olveda@chapman.edu)

The Member-Child Scholarship Program is designed to assist an outstanding undergraduate student who is the child of a College Sports Communicators member. Three undergraduate scholarships of $1,000 each will be awarded each academic year, with a limit of ONE CSC scholarship per family per academic year.

The Member-Child Scholarships are automatically renewable for up to 4 academic years, with the requirement that award winners continue to meet the basic qualifications of the award.

Past recipients will be contacted by the Scholarships Committee to verify full-time enrollment and minimum GPA requirements.

Requirements

  1. The scholarship applicant must be the child of a current, dedicated athletics communications professional who has been a member of College Sports Communicators for a minimum of 10 years.
  2. The applicant must carry a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale) for all high school OR college undergraduate work to date.
  3. The applicant must be a high school graduate preparing to enter college in 2026-27 OR be a current undergraduate college student who will be enrolled full-time in 2026-27.
  4. The applicant must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student (minimum of 12 credit hours per semester) for the 2026-27 academic year.
  5. The most recent transcripts of all high school OR college academic work must accompany a completed application.

Past recipients of a Member-Child Scholarship do not have to re-apply for the award each year, as long as they have continuously met the original award requirements. They must verify (with transcripts) that they have continued to meet requirements when contacted by CSC to renew the awards annually and up to four academic years.

Past recipients of Member Child Scholarships who did not meet the requirements or did not re-apply based on previous scholarship procedures may re-apply to compete for one of the three new scholarships each academic year.

(2 new recipients each year - $2,000 per school year)

Fred Nuesch/Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients

Committee Coordinator: Teri Peay, Albany State University, Assistant Director of Athletics for Strategic Communications (terica.peay@asurams.edu)

The College Sports Communicators Undergraduate Scholarship Program consists of the Fred Nuesch Scholarship and the Dave Wohlhueter Scholarship. Nuesch, who spent the majority of his career at Texas A&M-Kingsville, and Wohlhueter, who is retired from Cornell, are both College Sports Communicators Hall of Famers. One complete application allows you to compete for both undergraduate scholarships.

The scholarships are each worth $2,000 ($1,000 fall semester, $1,000 spring semester) and designed to assist outstanding students in athletics communications (media relations/athletic communications) offices who have expressed an interest in pursuing a career in athletics communications and require financial assistance for their education.

Requirements

  1. The applicant must carry a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale) for all undergraduate work to date.
  2. The applicant must be classified as a junior or senior at their school for the 2026-27 academic year.
  3. The applicant must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student (minimum of 12 credit hours per semester) for the entire 2026-27 academic year.
  4. The applicant must have an interest in pursuing a career in athletics communications.

The undergraduate scholarships are not automatically renewable, but winning applicants as juniors do have the option to submit an application for their senior year.

(2 institutional winners per academic year - each at $17,500 per school year)

Application Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM (ET)

No late applications will be accepted.

Committee Coordinator: Jeff Griesch, Nebraska, Assistant Athletic Director of Communications jgriesch@huskers.com

The Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant Program is designed to assist member institution athletics communications offices with funds to support the addition of a graduate internship. Phil Langan was a College Sports Communicators Hall of Famer who worked at Ithaca, Princeton and Brown. He passed away in November of 2009. He served CSC as secretary-treasurer and Digest editor from 1972 to 1977.

Two CSC Graduate Internship Grants will be awarded, providing $17,500 each for a 10-month appointment ($8,750 fall semester/$8,750 spring semester).

The winning schools do not have to designate the individual recipient of the award as part of the original application process. Prior to receiving the grant funds for the 2026-27 academic year, the school must designate the name of the individual recipient to CSC.

One complete application allows you to compete for both graduate internship grants.

Requirements

  1. The applicant (current member) must submit an application form along with a one-page "Declaration of Need" outlining the personnel structure of his/her communications office, including the following information:
    • List of all paid athletic communications employees (full-time, part-time, interns, graduate assistants, students) by position
    • Number of varsity sports covered
    • Reasons for requesting consideration for this grant
    • Any additional support information
  2. The interns selected by the winning schools must be college graduates. It is the hiring SID's responsibility to see that the intern meets this criteria.
  3. Funds will be sent prior to each semester to the institution which will then pay the intern according to the school's payment protocols.
  4. An institution may receive a Phil Langan Internship Grant one time in any three-year period.
  5. Phil Langan Internship Grants are available only to athletics communications offices without paid graduate interns. Applications must be complete and thorough to be considered.

Langston Rogers / Wylie Smith Scholarship (1 new scholarship each year, worth $6,000)

Application Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2026 at 11:59 PM (ET)

No late applications will be accepted.

Committee Coordinator: Kendra Willard, Auburn University, Director of Communications (kal0014@auburn.edu)

The Postgraduate Scholarship program consists of the Langston Rodgers/Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship and the scholarship is worth $6,000 for the academic year.

The Scholarship is named in honor of former Scholarships Committee chairman and long-time Sports Information Director Wylie Smith at Northern Arizona University, and for Langston Rogers, former College Sports Communicators President, Hall of Famer, Mary Jo Haverbeck Trailblazer and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient who is the SID emeritus at Ole Miss.

The Postgraduate Scholarship is designed to assist outstanding aspiring graduate students in athletics communications offices who have expressed an interest in pursuing a career in athletics communications and require financial assistance for their postgraduate education.

Requirements

  1. The applicant must carry a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale) for all undergraduate (and graduate) academic work to date.
  2. The applicant must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student (6 credit hours per semester) for the entire 2026-27 academic year.
  3. The applicant must have an interest in pursuing a career in athletics communications and must be active in the athletics communications office at his/her graduate institution.

Terms and Conditions

  1. One Postgraduate Scholarship will be awarded for the 2026-27 academic year.
  2. The scholarship will be allocated as follows: $3,000-September 2026; $3,000-January 2027.
  3. Proof of full-time enrollment for a minimum of 6 hours each semester at the graduate school of the student's choice must be submitted before funds will be released.

CSC Scholarship Background and History

Annually, College Sports Communicators offers both undergraduate and graduate scholarships to deserving young professionals looking to begin a career in athletic communications, and also offers two annual graduate internship grants to member institutions to help fund a graduate internship position for the next academic year.

The first CSC scholarships were awarded in 1981 and they were postgraduate scholarships. In 1999, the Scholarship program was expanded to include the undergraduate scholarships, named for Hall of Famers and former long-time CSC secretary/digest editor Fred Nuesch and current treasurer Dave Wohlhueter, and the graduate internship grant.

In December of 2009, the graduate internship was renamed the Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant, in honor of the late Langan. At that time CSC had named all but one of its scholarships for outstanding and worthy contributors to the athletics communications profession. That changed in the summer of 2010 when the Executive Board of Directors unanimously voted to rename the Postgraduate Scholarships for Langston Rogers and Wylie Smith (now one scholarship starting in 2025-26). This decision was to honor Hall of Famer and Trailblazer Award winner Rogers, who retired in 2010 after an illustrious career at Ole Miss, and for Smith, retired/long-time Sports Information Director at Northern Arizona University and former chair of the (CoSIDA) scholarship committee.

During the 2013 Convention in Orlando, the Board of Directors approved a recommendation by the Scholarship Committee to endow a new scholarship for current members-the Member-Child Scholarship. Funds for that scholarship began for the 2014-15 academic year.

Click below for links to past announcements year-by-year scholarship recipients lists.

Past CSC Scholarships & Grants news

Langston Rogers/Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients

2025 Paige Trutna, Nebraska

2024 Paige Trutna, Nebraska
Coreyon Chester, Texas Woman's University

2023 Nick Schmieg, Slippery Rock
Brandon Wirth, Ferris State

2022 Amanda Scott, Lander
Grant Cook, Grace College

2021 Nicole Remedios, Illinois State
Morgan Turner, Northeast Conference

2020 Amber Dubois, North Florida
Tim Heiduk, Concordia (Calif.)

2019 Jordyn Ballard, Black Hills State
Tyler Roper, Utah Valley
Shaylee Souza, Arizona State

2018 Lauren Simpson, Illinois State
McKenzie Pavacich, Arizona State
Scott Vander Sloot, Ashland University
Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Earlham College)

2017 Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Saint Leo)
Daniel Ruple (Baldwin Wallace) / Kevin Ruple (Baldwin Wallace)
Lauren Dickerson (William & Mary) / Drew Dickerson (Atlantic 10 Conference)

2016 Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Saint Leo)
Daniel Ruple (Baldwin Wallace) / Kevin Ruple (Baldwin Wallace)

2015 Brinley Lowe (North Carolina) / Bob Lowe (Berry College)
Lauren Dickerson (William & Mary) / Drew Dickerson (Atlantic 10 Conference)

2014 Grace Neely (Kentucky) / Tony Neely (Kentucky)
Dakota Hawkins (Winthrop) / Michael Hawkins (Francis Marion)

Fred Nuesch/Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients

2025 Chloe Green, Lewis-Clark
Elijah Adams, Alfred State

2024 Payton McClowry, Wheaton College
Teagan Schreiber, Colorado

2023 Abbey Curtis, College of Charleston

2022 Maddie Peterson, Nebraska
Anna Fox, North Central

2021 Hannah Dumaine, Bryant
Noah Roleson, Indianapolis

2020 Noah Syverson, Berry College
Hannah Dumaine, Bryant
Miles Whitling, Idaho

2019 Joseph Haueter, Mount Union
Kai Henson, St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn)

2018 Victoria Mills, Purdue Fort Wayne
Chelsea Lombardo, Adelphi
Liam Pickhardt, Linfield College
Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Saint Leo)

2017 Christopher Lawrence, Alaska Anchorage
Bailey Knecht, Northeastern

2016 Morgan Romans, Eastern Kentucky
Christie Effendie, UC Davis

2015 Nathan Edwards, San José State
Marisa Lombardo, Alvernia

2014 Mike Mulcahy, New Mexico
Kourtney Freiburger, Purdue

2013 Casey Bonk, Pittsburgh
Lucy Montgomery, Washington-St. Louis

2012 Jake Faber, Pittsburgh State
Ashley Goetti, Wisconsin-River Falls

2011 Adam K. Moussa, Memphis
Eric LaBranche, Stonehill

2010 Michael Benson, Southern Illinois-Carbondale
James Rodriguez, Baldwin-Wallace

2009 Carli Todd, Tampa
David Bodman, La Salle

2008 Andrew Middleman, Baldwin-Wallace
Kevin Flora, University of the Cumberlands

2007 Caleb Hawley, Oregon State
Christina Marshall, James Madison

2006 Todd Zeidler, Bemidji
Amy Robertson, Mississippi State

2005 John Vogel, Youngstown State
Monique Bowman, Capital University

2004 Cassie Chance, Mississippi State
Nick Kiger, Colorado State

2003 Kimberly Gray Folkes, Virginia Tech
Adam Holtz, Bethany Lutheran
Laura Schoenberger, Pittsburg State

2002 Branie Davidson, Northwest Missouri State
Shante Gree, Fayetteville State
Teri LaJeunesse, Michigan Tech

2001 Bobbie Horstman, Iowa State
Shayla Reiff, Mt. Vernon Nazarene
Dustin Roberts, Oklahoma

2000 Daniel Dykstra, Wheaton (Ill.)
Kimberly Frederick, Manhattan
Bobbie Horstman, Iowa State

1999 Kate Adams, Iowa State
Michelle La Scola, Northern Illinois
Casey Taylor, Christopher Newport

Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant

N named in Langan's honor for 2010-11 award.

2025 Crown College
Millikin University

2024 Coppin State
Sioux Falls

2023 Ashland
Wartburg

2022 Northern Iowa
Cornerstone

2021 Adams State
Coppin State

2020 St. Franicis (Ill.)
Chicago State

2019 Benedict College
Westminster College (Mo.)

2018 Wright State
The Sage Colleges

2017 Connecticut College

2016 Post University

2015 Elmhurst College

2014 Galludet University

2013 Chicago State
Tennessee Tech

2002 Eckerd College
Hardin-Simmons

2001 Central State (Ohio)
Cheyney

2000 Central Oklahoma
Urbana (Ohio)

1999 Alabama A&M
Wright State

Member-Child Scholarship

Recipient name listed first; member parent listed second.

2025 Addison Bentley (Central Michigan)/ Robert Bentley (Ferris State)
Carter Bradley (Salisbury) / Stan Bradley (Salisbury)

2024 Tanner Caudill (Muskingum) / Tom Caudill (Muskingum)
Grady White (Colorado State) / Beau White (CSC)

2023 Abigail Henry (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) / Brian Henry (West Florida)
Tessa Wallington (UNLV) / Mark Wallington (UNLV)

2022 Haylee Stancil (Lincoln Memorial) / Jay Stancil (Union (Ky.))
Shelby Kindhart (Missouri State) / Rick Kindhart (Missouri State)

2021 Hollan Griesch (Nebraska) / Jeff Griesch (Nebraska)
Gavin Thor (Seton Hall) / Ira Thor (New Jersey City)

2020 McKenna DiCamillo (St. John Fisher) / Tom DiCamillo (State University of New York Athletic Conference)
Hailey Yellin (Maryland) / Jason Yellin (Maryland)

2019 Sam Sadowski (Tufts) / Chuck Sadowski (Bridgeport)
Solomon Serba-Davis (Cape Fear Community College) / Kyle Serba (North Carolina Central)

2018 Peter Hartrick (Scranton) / John Hartrick (Binghamton)
Karlee Bird (Linfield College) / Kelly Bird (Linfield College)
Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Earlham College)

2017 Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Saint Leo)
Daniel Ruple (Baldwin Wallace) / Kevin Ruple (Baldwin Wallace)
Lauren Dickerson (William & Mary) / Drew Dickerson (Atlantic 10 Conference)
Kevin Mobley (Georgia) / Mike Mobley (Georgia)

2016 Fiona Lefresne (Missouri State) / Pete Lefresne (Saint Leo)
Daniel Ruple (Baldwin Wallace) / Kevin Ruple (Baldwin Wallace)

2015 Brinley Lowe (North Carolina) / Bob Lowe (Berry College)
Lauren Dickerson (William & Mary) / Drew Dickerson (Atlantic 10 Conference)

2014 Grace Neely (Kentucky) / Tony Neely (Kentucky)
Dakota Hawkins (Winthrop) / Michael Hawkins (Francis Marion)

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