Jake Wade Award


The Jake Wade Award is presented annually to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the media to the field of intercollegiate athletics. Jake Wade was a widely acclaimed sports journalist and national magazine contributor for Charlotte Observer for 16 years and later served as sports information director at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1946-62. A 1923 UNC graduate, Wade was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1992. He died in 1962. 









Jake Wade Award Recipients
2007 Steve Scheer (CBS Sports)
2006 Tony Barnhardt (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
2005 Mel Greenberg (Philadelphia Inquirer)
2004 Bill Nichols (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
2003 Christine Brennan (USA Today)
2002 Robin Roberts (ESPN)
2001 Dick Vitale (ESPN)
2000 Bill Wallace (New York Times)
1999 Dan Jenkins (Golf Digest)
1998 Steve Wieberg (USA Today)
1997 Ron Franklin (ESPN)
1996 Bob Hammel (Bloomington Herald-Times)
1995 Bob Brill (Durham Herald-Sun)
1994 Jim Simpson (ESPN)
1993 Sid Hartman (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
1992 Dave Anderson (New York Times)
1991 Bob Hentzen (Topeka Capital-Journal)
1990 Bob Monahan (Boston Globe)
1989 Dick Enberg (NBC-TV)
1988 John Bibb (Nashville Tennessean)
1987 Rosa Gatti (ESPN)
1986 Dave Campbell (Waco Tribune-Herald)
1985 Kaye Kessler (Columbus Citizen-Journal)
1984 Bill Jauss (Chicago Tribune)
1983 Gordon White (New York Times)
1982 Herschel Nissenson (Associated Press)
1981 Frank Boggs (Colorado Springs Gazette)
1980 Blackie Sherrod (Dallas Times-Herald)
1979 Furman Bisher (Atlanta Journal)
1978 Keith Jackson (ABC-TV)
1977 Maury White (Des Moines Register)
1976 Si Burick (Dayton Daily News)
1975 Tom Woodward (Knoxville Sentinel)
1974 Volney Meece (Oklahoma City Times)
1973 Dick Herbert (Raleigh News-Observer)
1972 John Mooney (Salt Lake City Tribune)
1971 Arnie Burdick (Syracuse Herlad/Journal)
1970 Ed Schneider (Chicago Today)
1969 Ray Johnson (Nashville Tennessean)
1968 Paul Zimmerman (Los Angeles Times)
1967 Francis Wallace (New York sportswriter)
1966 Fred Russell (Nashville Banner)
1965 Lindsey Nelson (NBC-TV)
1964 Dave Condon (Chicago Tribune)
1963 Wilfred Smith (Chicago Tribune)
1962 Abe Chanin (Collegiate Baseball)
1961 Bill Schroeder (Helms Hall of Fame)
1960 Stanley Woodward (New York Herald Tribune/Newark Star Ledger)
1959 Homer F. Cooke (NCAA)
1958 Bert McGrane (Des Moines Register)