Wickard, CEHS senior, recieves Wasson Award

09 Mar 2013    

Angela Wickard, a senior hospitality, restaurant and tourism management major from Bridgeport, Neb. is one of four UNL students who received the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award presented by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association during the organization’s national conference March 4–7 in Las Vegas, Nev.

The award is named after NIRSA’s founder Dr. William N. Wasson and is given to 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 is the only higher education institution in the nation to have at least one Wasson Award winner each year since the award’s inception in 1993. UNL also leads the nation in total recipients with 63 awards.