UNL Adds Four to List of Wasson Winners

Friday, April 29, 2016 UNL Adds Four to List of Wasson Winners

Four Wasson Award Winners from UNL

Four University of Nebraska-Lincoln students received the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award presented by NIRSA, the national association for campus recreation leadership. UNL now leads the nation with 74 recipients since the award’s inception in 1993 and is the only higher education institution in the nation to have at least one Wasson Award winner every year the award has been given.

The award is named after NIRSA’s founder Dr. William N. Wasson and is bestowed upon 24 undergraduate and 12 graduate students nationwide each year. It recognizes outstanding undergraduate and graduate students who are active participants, employees or volunteers in collegiate recreational sports departments. Criteria for the award includes self-improvement through leadership, academic success, activities, volunteerism, and promoting inclusion.

UNL recipients from this year are:

  • Kelsey Appleby — student employee in Campus Recreation and a senior Accounting major from O’Neill, Neb.
  • Jonathan Berger — president of the Campus Recreation Advisory Council and a senior Mechanical Engineering major from Omaha, Neb.
  • Seth Schafersman — student employee in Campus Recreation and a senior Finance major from Hooper, Neb.
  • Tiffany Wieser — student employee in Campus Recreation and an Integrated Media Communications master’s degree graduate student from Columbus, Neb.
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