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Collegiate Athletes to be recognized at 16th Annual Wooden Citizenship Cup Awards

The 16th Annual Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup, an award given to the most outstanding role models among athletes, has announced collegiate honorees for its 2020 award ceremony to be held in Atlanta at a date to be announced. Bob Ryan, the famed sportswriter for the Boston Globe and analyst for ESPN, will serve as the Master of Ceremonies.

Founded by Athletes for a Better World (ABW), a non-profit organization committed to changing the culture of American sports, the Wooden Cup is unique in that it is open to athletes in all high school, collegiate, Olympic, and professional sports. Annual nominations are open to every division and conference in college sports, and to athletes in public and private high schools across the country in partnership with the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

John Wooden, who won ten national championships during the years 1964-1975 as basketball coach at UCLA, is commonly regarded as the greatest college coach of any sport who ever lived. Universally regarded as one of the finest human beings to ever grace the world of sports, his character, conduct and selfless gifts stand at the highest level by any standard. When Coach Wooden learned about Athletes for a Better World, he gave authorization to attach his name to this annual award, and he attended and addressed the inaugural event in Los Angeles in 2005. In his honor, the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is presented to four distinguished athletes, one collegiate, one professional or Olympic, and a male and female from the high school ranks, for their character and leadership both on and off the field.

The 2020 collegiate Wooden Cup recipient will be announced at the awards ceremony. 

Finalists for the collegiate division include:

Denison University Claire Kolff
Florida State University Trent Forrest
Georgia Tech Bria Matthews
University of Dayton Ryan Culhane

The Semifinalists were:

Bemidji State University Jared Henning
Bethel University Jake Marsh
Central Michigan University Alexandria Robinson
Concordia University Irvine Sarah Kretschmar
Ferris State Travis Russell
Florida Southern College Joe Appio
Georgia College Amber Coy
Houston Baptist University Danielle Wheeler
Nazareth College Jake Adams
NC State University James Smith-Williams
Northeast Mississippi Community College Haley Vick
Oregon State Mikayla Pivec
Peru State College Julia Zurek
Purdue University Hannah Melchiorre
Shenandoah University Sarah Donley
Southeastern University Felipe Barbosa
The College of Wooster Aubri McKoy
Truett McConnell University Rachel Barnett
University of Delaware Cali Loeffler
University of Georgia Rodrigo Blankenship
University of Michigan Roland Amarteifio
University of Montana Athletics Dante Olson
University of Oklahoma Nicole Mendes
University of South Carolina Frances Harrison
University of the Pacific Hannah Ketcherside
Vanderbilt University Cody Markel
Wayne State University Adrianna Waack

January 16th, 2020 | Posted in: ABW News,Wooden Citizenship Cup

  • ← The NIAAA and ABW salute 2020 Wooden Cup high school athlete recipients
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