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2025-26 CSC Scholarships and Grants Program

Applications Open: Monday, Feb. 3 (Noon ET)

Application Deadline: Friday, April 4, 2025 (Midnight Eastern)

CSC will offer the following scholarship and grant opportunities for current dues-paying CSC members. Please look at the forms NOW as there is specific financial information required, and you will need to have time to collect your information.

  • Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grants (2 institutional winners per academic year - each at $17,500 per school year) - Applications closed
  • Langston Rogers/Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship (1 new scholarship each year, worth $6,000) - Applications closed
  • Fred Nuesch Undergraduate Scholarship and Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarship (2 new recipients each year - $2,000 per school year) - Applications closed
  • Member-Child Scholarships (3 new recipients each year, renewable up to 4 total years - $1,000 per school year) - Applications closed

 

Questions? Direct them to:

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

CSC Staff Liaison
Barb Kowal, Director of Operations and Professional Development
barb@cscommunicators.com
(512) 739-1234

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 4, 2025 (Midnight Eastern)

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 2025-26 OR be a current undergraduate college student who will be enrolled full-time in 2025-26.
  4. The applicant must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student (minimum of 12 credit hours per semester) for the 2025-26 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 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 two new scholarships each academic year.

(2 new recipients each year - $2,000 per school year)
Fred Nuesch Scholarship, Dave Wohlhueter Scholarship  

Application Deadline: Friday, April 4, 2025 (Midnight Eastern)
No late applications will be accepted.

Committee Coordinator: Teri Peay, South Carolina State University Assistant Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing (tpeay@scsu.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) are 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 2025-26 academic year.
  3. The applicant must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student (minimum of 12 credit hours per semester) for the entire 2025-26 academic year.
  4. The applicant should take special care and give themselves ample time to provide accurate proof of financial need, including requested financial documents.
  5. 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 4, 2025 (Midnight Eastern)
No late applications will be accepted.

Committee Coordinator: Jeff Griesch – Nebraska, Senior Associate Communications Director/Operations  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.

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 2025-26 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.

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.

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Funds will be sent prior to each semester to the institution which will then pay the intern according to the school's payment protocols.
  • An institution may receive a Phil Langan Internship Grant one time in any three-year period.
  • 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 4, 2025 (Midnight Eastern)
No late applications will be accepted.

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

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

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.

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. 

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 2025-26 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 Scholarships will be awarded for the 2025-26 academic year.
  2. The scholarship will be allocated as follows: $3,000-September 2025; $3,000-January 2026.
  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 one annual graduate internship grant to a member institution 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 for 2025-26) in honor of 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.

  • June 4, 2025: CSC announces scholarship, grant recipients for 2025-26
    May 30, 2024: CSC announces scholarship, grant recipients for 2024-25
    August 2, 2023: 2023-24 CSC Scholarship and Grants Award Winners Announced
    June 1, 2022: CoSIDA Announces 2022-23 Scholarship and Grant Award Recipients
    June 6, 2021: CoSIDA Scholarship and Grant Winners Announced for 2021-22
    June 4, 2020: CoSIDA Announces 2020-21 Scholarship and Grants Winners
    May 30, 2019: CoSIDA Announces 2019-20 Scholarship and Grants Winners
    June 6, 2018: CoSIDA Announces Record Class of 2018-19 Scholarship Winners
    June 7, 2017: CoSIDA Announces Record Class of 2017-18 Scholarship Winners
    June 10, 2016: CoSIDA announces 2016-17 Scholarship and Grant winners
    June 12, 2015: CoSIDA chooses 2015-16 Scholarship, Grant recipients
    June 15, 2014: Recipients of 2014-15 CoSIDA Scholarship awards announced
    June 14, 2013: CoSIDA announces 2013-14 scholarship and grant winners
    June 15, 2012: CoSIDA announces 2012-13 undergraduate, graduate and graduate scholarship winners and graduate internship grant
    June 18, 2011: CoSIDA announces 2011-12 Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship and Grant winners
    Feb. 15, 2011: AROUND CoSIDA NATION: CoSIDA Scholarship recipients -Their stories and tips for budding communications professionals
    June 30, 2010: CoSIDA Announces 2009-10 Scholarship Winners
    Dec. 14, 2009: CoSIDA names its Graduate Internship Grant in memory and honor of Phil Langan

  • 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.)
                Mary Murray, Fairleigh Dickinson - Florham
    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
    2017    Nicole Praga, Arizona State
                Andrea Beene, Oklahoma
    2016    James Hajek, Nebraska
                Lorie Garnett, Utah Valley University
    2015    Andrew Forhan, Whitworth
                Akilah Laster, Oklahoma
    2014    Kati Morse, Southeastern Louisiana
                Kyle Skene, Millsaps College
    2013    Kim Carper, Vanderbilt
                Joelle Milholm, Cal State Bakersfield
    2012    Carli Todd, DePaul
                Joelle Milholm, CSU Bakersfield
    2011    Andrew Lentz, Tennessee
                Britney Reddick, Kutztown
    2010    Grant Abston, Texas
                Mariel Brady, St. John's
    2009    Laurie Wild, Northern Iowa
                Britney Wright, Florida State
    2008    Jared Verner, Northwest Missouri State
                Kendra Lee, Ohio State
    2007    Caroline Domecq, Georgia
                Kyle Chilton, Southern Virginia
    2006    Chris Yandle, Marshall
                Jessica Calderone, Southeast Louisiana
    2005    Michael Potter, Ball State
                Erin Whiteside, Penn State
    2004    Eric Braley, Northern Iowa
                Kristopher Sears, Indiana
    2003    Brad Fischer, Wisconsin-La Crosse
                Lainie Guiddy, West Virginia
    2002    Michelle Kelley, Colgate
                Sean Wright, Westminster (Mo.)
    2001    Brad Caudill, Eastern Michigan
                Susan Seabrook, Alabama-Birmingham
    2000    Mark Fratto, Maryland
                Andy Knappick, Illinois State
    1999    Brian Gunning, Marshall
                Heidi Roth, Syracuse
    1998    Chris Ambrose, Purdue
                Brian Gunning, Marshall
    1997    Chris Ambrose, Purdue
                Jeff Griesch, Nebraska
    1996    Jeff Griesch, Nebraska
    1995    Stuart McFarland, Missouri
                Sally Krauss, Western Kentucky
    1994    Randy Hayson, Illinois State
    1993    Will Roleson, Miami (Ohio)
    1992    Amy Stabley, Central Michigan
                Robert Hester, Northern Illinois
    1991    Lana Bandy, Purdue
    1990    Stephanie Grimes, Boise State
    1989    Beth Haag, Iowa State
    1988    Angela Hultman, Mankato State
    1987    Chris McMurry, Northern Arizona
    1986    Mark Berger, Ohio
    1985    Brian Teter, Illinois State
    1984    Jonathan Dukes, Georgia Southern
    1983    Jay Hill, Michigan
    1982    John Lashway, Oregon
    1981    Craig Bohnert, Evansville
    1980    Laurie Jean Kiely, Alabama
    1979    Duane Dapron, Fort Hays State
    1978    Debra Rog, American International
    1977    Dawn Langston, Delaware
    1976    John Vincent, Notre Dame
    1975    Steve Townsend, LSU

  • 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)
                Gabriel Vegas-Valente, Nebraska
    2018    Victoria Mills, Purdue Fort Wayne
                Chelsea Lombardo, Adelphi
                Liam Pickhardt, Linfield College
    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

  • 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
    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.)
                Tennessee Tech
    2002    Eckerd College
                Hardin-Simmons
    2001    Central State (Ohio)
                Cheyney
    2000    Central Oklahoma 
                Urbana (Ohio)
    1999    Alabama A&M
                Wright State

  • 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)
                Daniel Ruple (Baldwin Wallace) / Kevin Ruple (Baldwin Wallace)
                Kevin Mobley (Georgia) / Mike Mobley (Georgia)
                Hannah Grossman (Seattle University) / Andy Grossman (UNLV)
    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)