Four University of Nebraska–Lincoln students will receive the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award presented by NIRSA during the association’s annual conference February 16–19, 2019 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Nebraska leads the nation with 85 recipients since the award’s inception in 1993 and is the only higher-ed institution in the country to have at least one Wasson Award winner every year the award has been given. Now in it’s twenty-seventh year, the award is named after NIRSA’s founder Dr. William N. Wasson and is annually bestowed upon twenty-four undergraduate and twelve graduate students across the United States and Canada. 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. This year’s recipients from Nebraska are:
• Victoria Davis, a senior Child, Youth, and Family Studies major
• Britton Lyon, a senior Chemistry major
• DeVanee Lasley, an Educational Administration master’s degree graduate student
• Megan Wynn, an Educational Administration master’s degree graduate student
All four students are employed by the Campus Recreation department at Nebraska.
About NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation
NIRSA is the leading resource for professional and student development, education, and research in collegiate recreational sports. Headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon, NIRSA was established in 1950 at a meeting at Dillard University of 22 African-American men and women from 11 historically black colleges and universities. NIRSA now includes more than 4,000 highly trained professional, student and associate members throughout the United States, Canada and other countries. Serving an estimated 5.5 million students who regularly participate in campus recreational sports programs, NIRSA members are actively engaged in many areas of campus life: student leadership, development, and personnel management; wellness and fitness programs; intramural sports; sport clubs; recreation facility operations; outdoor recreation; informal recreation; and aquatic programs.
For additional information about NIRSA visit the Web site http://www.nirsa.org