Three UNL students received the William N. Wasson Student Leadership and Academic Award presented by NIRSA during the associations’ national conference from March 30 through April 2 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.
This year’s additions bring UNL to a nation-leading 70 recipients since the award’s 1993 inception. UNL is also the only higher-education institution in the nation to have at least one Wasson Award winner every year the award has been given.
The award is named after NIRSA’s founder 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 include: self-improvement through leadership, academic success, activities, volunteerism and promoting inclusion.
This year’s recipients are:
Cameron Binder, a senior Economics and Business Administration major from Mequon, Wisconsin.
Beth Broderick, a senior Elementary Education and Special Education major from Stromsburg, Nebraska.
Aaron Dueker, a Higher Education Administration master’s degree graduate student from Maryville, Missouri.
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, go to http://www.nirsa.org.
UNL Campus Recreation services over 25,000 memberships annually to the students, faculty, staff and alumni at UNL. More than 725,000 annual visits are logged at the Campus Rec Center on City Campus, the Outdoor Adventures Center and the Fleming Fields Annex Building on East Campus, which serve as the campus’ exercise, fitness and recreational sport facilities.
The department also manages more than 170 acres of outside recreation space and administers the intramural sports, fitness and wellness, sport clubs, rec and leisure classes, academic instructional classes, outdoor adventures, aquatics, injury prevention, massage therapy and youth activities programs.
For more information, contact Christopher Dulak at 402-472-8749.
