CoSIDA members are asked to assist their campus faculty athletics representative (FAR) or chief academics officer in the nomination process in the third year of this McKay Award.
Please read the application carefully and note that only the faculty athletics representative or the chief academic officer of the institution at which the nominee is a varsity student-athlete may nominate qualified candidates.
The Jim McKay Scholarship Program provides for one male and one female student-athlete to receive a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship in recognition of outstanding academic achievement (minimum of 3.5 cumulative grade point average) and potential to make a major contribution in the sports communications industry.
Deadline: Jan. 28, 2011.
Read the NCAA Jim McKay Scholarship Program information at www.NCAA.org
Jim McKay Scholarship Program
Application Form
In 2008, the National Collegiate Athletic Association established the Jim McKay Scholarship Program as a means of recognizing the immense contributions and legacy of pioneer sports journalist Jim McKay. Under this program, one male and and one female student-athlete are annually awarded a $10,000 scholarship in recognition for outstanding academic achievement and potential to make a major contribution in the sports communication industry. McKay scholars will be recognized as having demonstrated a unique aptitude and commitment to the communications field and promises to be a future leader in the industry. McKay scholars also will demonstrate the highest level of professional integrity, including the principles of truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public accountability, with the element of compassion that so infused McKay's long and storied career.
2010 Recipient: Ana Sebescen, Coppin State University
(only one awardee chosen in 2010)
Ana Sebescen, a former tennis student-athlete at Coppin State University, is the recipient of the Jim McKay Scholarship. She will receive a $10,000 award for her outstanding academic achievement.
Ana, earned her bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in journalism, with a cumulative grade point average of 3.98.
Of Serbian-Hungarian nationality, she survived two wars in her native country as a youth. After seeing her native Serbia destroyed economically, politically and socially, she decided that she wanted to become a journalist to help instill change.
While participating in multiple community service activities, she also interned at the Baltimore Examiner where she became the first intern to publish twice on the cover page of the newspaper. She also pioneered the newspaper’s first multimedia article.
Sebescen is currently pursuing her master’s degree in broadcast journalism at the University of Maryland.
Qualifications:
To be eligible for consideration, nominees shall:
1. Have an overall undergraduate cumulative grade-point average of 3.500 or better (based on a maximum 4.000), or the equivalent in other recognized grading systems;
2. Have competed in intercollegiate athletics as a member of a varsity team at an NCAA member institution;
3. Be enrolled in graduate study at an NCAA member institution or be a graduating senior committed to enrolling in a graduate degree program within five years of being named a McKay Scholar;
4. Have demonstrated a unique aptitude and commitment to the communications field with the potential to make a contribution in the sports communications industry;
5. Ascribe to the highest levels of integrity, including the principles of truthfulness, accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, fairness and public accountability;
6. Have evidenced superior character and leadership;
7. Have an understanding and appreciation for the legacy of Jim McKay, his contributions to sport broadcasting and specifically his award-winning oratory on the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Please read the application carefully and note that only the faculty athletics representative or the chief academic officer of the institution at which the nominee is a varsity student-athlete may nominate qualified candidates.
Application Form
Application Form
The faculty athletics representative (FAR) or chief academics officer shall collect the application material and forward the original postmarked not later than January 28, 2011 to:
The Jim McKay Scholarship
NCAA
P.O. Box 6222
Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-6222
Please note: Applicants now have the ability to fill out the application on the website, but the information cannot be submitted through the website. Click on the line or box and type the requested information. Once the application is complete, then print and mail the application to the address above. Reminder: The information cannot be saved on the website, so anyone filling out the application must do so all at one time.
Questions? Need More Information?
For more information, contact Lori Thomas at the NCAA national office at 317/917-6222 or by e-mail at
lthomas@ncaa.org.
Jim McKay Scholarship Recipients
2010
Ana Sebescen, Coppin State University
2009
Brian Brunner, Central Michigan University
Anna Rynarzewska, Florida State University