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CoSIDA Scholarship Program



The Annual CoSIDA Scholarship Program


With the naming of the Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant in December of 2009, CoSIDA now has named all but one of its scholarships for outstanding and worthy contributors to the SID profession. This Graduate Internship Grant is designed to assist member institution sports information offices with funds to support the addition of a graduate internships. There will be one  Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant awarded for the 2010-11 school year, providing $10,000 for a 10-month appointment. This Internship Grant is available only to sports information offices without paid graduate or undergraduate interns.


The CoSIDA Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarships, are two $2,500 scholarships awarded to outstanding undergraduate students working in sports information offices, and are named for former long-time CoSIDA secretary/digest editor Fred Nuesch and current treasurer Dave Wohlhueter.


The CoSIDA Post-Graduate Scholarship Program has a $5,000 Wylie Smith Scholarship and a $5,000 CoSIDA Scholarship which are awarded to designed to assist outstanding students in sports information offices who have expressed an interest in pursuing a career in collegiate sports information. Wylie Smith is a former CoSIDA Scholarships Committee chairman and long-time Sports Information Director at Northern Arizona University.


2010-11 Scholarship Applications & Deadlines


CoSIDA Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant: download application here (.pdf)
Deadline: Tuesday, April 13, 2010

CoSIDA Post-Graduate Scholarships: download application here (.pdf)
Deadline: Tuesday, April 20, 2010

CoSIDA Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarships: download application here (.pdf)
Deadline: Tuesday, May 11, 2010



CoSIDA Scholarship News


Dec. 14, 2009: CoSIDA names its Graduate Internship Grant in memory and honor of Phil Langan

Release on the 2009-10 CoSIDA Scholarship recipients: CoSIDA Announces 2009-10 Scholarship Winners


CoSIDA Scholarship Recipients, Year-by-Year


Postgraduate Scholarships
(The CoSIDA Scholarship & the Wylie Smith Scholarship)


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


Undergraduate Scholarships
(The Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Scholarships)

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


Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant*

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

* renamed in Langan's honor for 2010-11 award

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