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Scholarship & Internship Grant Program - 3/8/19

Date postedMarch 8, 2019
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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.

Fred Nuesch/Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients

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

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

No late applications will be accepted.

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 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)

Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant

(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: 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.

Langston Rogers / Wylie Smith Postgraduate 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.

Langston Rogers/Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship Recipients

  • 2025 Paige Trutna, Nebraska
  • 2024 Paige Trutna, Nebraska
  • 2024 Coreyon Chester, Texas Woman's University
  • 2023 Nick Schmieg, Slippery Rock
  • 2023 Brandon Wirth, Ferris State
  • 2022 Amanda Scott, Lander
  • 2022 Grant Cook, Grace College
  • 2021 Nicole Remedios, Illinois State
  • 2021 Morgan Turner, Northeast Conference
  • 2020 Amber Dubois, North Florida
  • 2020 Tim Heiduk, Concordia (Calif.)
  • 2020 Mary Murray, Fairleigh Dickinson - Florham
  • 2019 Jordyn Ballard, Black Hills State
  • 2019 Tyler Roper, Utah Valley
  • 2019 Shaylee Souza, Arizona State
  • 2018 Lauren Simpson, Illinois State
  • 2018 McKenzie Pavacich, Arizona State
  • 2018 Scott Vander Sloot, Ashland University
  • 2017 Nicole Praga, Arizona State
  • 2017 Andrea Beene, Oklahoma
  • 2016 James Hajek, Nebraska
  • 2016 Lorie Garnett, Utah Valley University
  • 2015 Andrew Forhan, Whitworth
  • 2015 Akilah Laster, Oklahoma
  • 2014 Kati Morse, Southeastern Louisiana
  • 2014 Kyle Skene, Millsaps College
  • 2013 Kim Carper, Vanderbilt
  • 2013 Joelle Milholm, Cal State Bakersfield
  • 2012 Carli Todd, DePaul
  • 2012 Joelle Milholm, CSU Bakersfield
  • 2011 Andrew Lentz, Tennessee
  • 2011 Britney Reddick, Kutztown
  • 2010 Grant Abston, Texas
  • 2010 Mariel Brady, St. John's
  • 2009 Laurie Wild, Northern Iowa
  • 2009 Britney Wright, Florida State
  • 2008 Jared Verner, Northwest Missouri State
  • 2008 Kendra Lee, Ohio State
  • 2007 Caroline Domecq, Georgia
  • 2007 Kyle Chilton, Southern Virginia
  • 2006 Chris Yandle, Marshall
  • 2006 Jessica Calderone, Southeast Louisiana
  • 2005 Michael Potter, Ball State
  • 2005 Erin Whiteside, Penn State
  • 2004 Eric Braley, Northern Iowa
  • 2004 Kristopher Sears, Indiana
  • 2003 Brad Fischer, Wisconsin-La Crosse
  • 2003 Lainie Guiddy, West Virginia
  • 2002 Branie Davidson, Northwest Missouri State
  • 2002 Shante Gree, Fayetteville State
  • 2002 Teri LaJeunesse, Michigan Tech
  • 2001 Bobbie Horstman, Iowa State
  • 2001 Shayla Reiff, Mt. Vernon Nazarene
  • 2001 Dustin Roberts, Oklahoma
  • 2000 Daniel Dykstra, Wheaton (Ill.)
  • 2000 Kimberly Frederick, Manhattan
  • 2000 Bobbie Horstman, Iowa State
  • 1999 Kate Adams, Iowa State
  • 1999 Michelle La Scola, Northern Illinois
  • 1999 Casey Taylor, Christopher Newport

Fred Nuesch/Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarship Recipients

  • 2025 Chloe Green, Lewis-Clark
  • 2025 Elijah Adams, Alfred State
  • 2024 Payton McClowry, Wheaton College
  • 2024 Teagan Schreiber, Colorado
  • 2023 Abbey Curtis, College of Charleston
  • 2022 Maddie Peterson, Nebraska
  • 2022 Anna Fox, North Central
  • 2021 Hannah Dumaine, Bryant
  • 2021 Noah Roleson, Indianapolis
  • 2020 Noah Syverson, Berry College
  • 2020 Hannah Dumaine, Bryant
  • 2020 Miles Whitling, Idaho
  • 2019 Joseph Haueter, Mount Union
  • 2019 Kai Henson, St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn)
  • 2019 Gabriel Vegas-Valente, Nebraska
  • 2018 Victoria Mills, Purdue Fort Wayne
  • 2018 Chelsea Lombardo, Adelphi
  • 2018 Liam Pickhardt, Linfield College
  • 2017 Christopher Lawrence, Alaska Anchorage
  • 2017 Bailey Knecht, Northeastern
  • 2016 Morgan Romans, Eastern Kentucky
  • 2016 Christie Effendie, UC Davis
  • 2015 Nathan Edwards, San José State
  • 2015 Marisa Lombardo, Alvernia
  • 2014 Mike Mulcahy, New Mexico
  • 2014 Kourtney Freiburger, Purdue
  • 2013 Casey Bonk, Pittsburgh
  • 2013 Lucy Montgomery, Washington-St. Louis
  • 2012 Jake Faber, Pittsburgh State
  • 2012 Ashley Goetti, Wisconsin-River Falls
  • 2011 Adam K. Moussa, Memphis
  • 2011 Eric LaBranche, Stonehill
  • 2010 Michael Benson, Southern Illinois-Carbondale
  • 2010 James Rodriguez, Baldwin-Wallace
  • 2009 Carli Todd, Tampa
  • 2009 David Bodman, La Salle
  • 2008 Andrew Middleman, Baldwin-Wallace
  • 2008 Kevin Flora, University of the Cumberlands
  • 2007 Caleb Hawley, Oregon State
  • 2007 Christina Marshall, James Madison
  • 2006 Todd Zeidler, Bemidji
  • 2006 Amy Robertson, Mississippi State
  • 2005 John Vogel, Youngstown State
  • 2005 Monique Bowman, Capital University
  • 2004 Cassie Chance, Mississippi State
  • 2004 Nick Kiger, Colorado State
  • 2003 Kimberly Gray Folkes, Virginia Tech
  • 2003 Adam Holtz, Bethany Lutheran
  • 2003 Laura Schoenberger, Pittsburg State
  • 2002 Branie Davidson, Northwest Missouri State
  • 2002 Shante Gree, Fayetteville State
  • 2002 Teri LaJeunesse, Michigan Tech
  • 2001 Bobbie Horstman, Iowa State
  • 2001 Shayla Reiff, Mt. Vernon Nazarene
  • 2001 Dustin Roberts, Oklahoma
  • 2000 Daniel Dykstra, Wheaton (Ill.)
  • 2000 Kimberly Frederick, Manhattan
  • 2000 Bobbie Horstman, Iowa State
  • 1999 Kate Adams, Iowa State
  • 1999 Michelle La Scola, Northern Illinois
  • 1999 Casey Taylor, Christopher Newport

Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant

Named in Langan's honor for 2010-11 award.

  • 2025 Crown College
  • 2025 Millikin University
  • 2024 Coppin State
  • 2024 Sioux Falls
  • 2023 Ashland
  • 2023 Wartburg
  • 2022 Northern Iowa
  • 2022 Cornerstone
  • 2021 Adams State
  • 2021 Coppin State
  • 2020 St. Francis (Ill.)
  • 2020 Chicago State
  • 2019 Benedict College
  • 2019 Westminster College (Mo.)
  • 2018 Wright State
  • 2018 The Sage Colleges
  • 2017 Connecticut College
  • 2016 Post University
  • 2015 Elmhurst College
  • 2014 Gallaudet University
  • 2013 Chicago State
  • 2012 DePauw University
  • 2011 Ursinus College (Pa.)
  • 2010 Illinois Wesleyan
  • 2009 Lake Erie College
  • 2008 Grand Canyon University
  • 2007 Central College of Iowa
  • 2006 Bellarmine
  • 2005 Wesleyan University
  • 2004 Carroll College
  • 2003 St. Francis (N.Y.)
  • 2003 Tennessee Tech
  • 2002 Eckerd College
  • 2002 Hardin-Simmons
  • 2001 Central State (Ohio)
  • 2001 Cheyney
  • 2000 Central Oklahoma
  • 2000 Urbana (Ohio)
  • 1999 Alabama A&M
  • 1999 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)
  • 2018 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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