The N4A Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award is intended to honor student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic, and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics. These individuals may not be the best athletes or students, and therefore may not have been recognized by other organizations or awards. Nonetheless, they have persevered and made significant personal strides toward success. These are the students who benefit most from academic advisement and student-athlete development programs and represent practitioners' motivation and sense of satisfaction. A sampling of obstacles which award honorees have overcome may include, but are not limited to, poor academic performance, family crisis, medical and/or emotional/mental trauma.

CRITERIA

1. The nominee must have completed three (3) semesters or four (4) quarters at the nominating institution and passed 36 semester or 48 quarter hours.  The nominee must be athletically eligible for the current academic year.
2. The nominee must be in good academic standing - able to continue at the institution.
3. The nominee must be a letter winner.
4. Each institution may nominate a maximum of one (1) female and one (1) male student-athlete.
5. The nomination must be made by the nominee's athletic academic counselor/advisor.

NOMINATION REQUIREMENTS

Each nomination must include the following and will be required fields for submitting this form:

1. A personal essay by the nominee which communicates his/her lifetime experiences, addressing his/her purpose, productivity and progress in relation to the individual growth in one or more areas. The committee is interested in ways that the university's athletic, academic, and social experiences have contributed to the nominee's goals and achievements.  This essay should be a depiction of the nominee's story.
2. One (1) letter of nomination from the nominee's athletic academic counselor/advisor.
3. A headshot photo of the nominee (in JPEG format).
4. Release form

SELECTION

The N4A Honors and Awards Working Group will select five (5) recipients to be honored at the N4A National Convention which will be held June 7-10 in Las Vegas, NV.

In order to be considered, ALL of the following fields must be completed prior to submission. Specific questions about the award or the nomination process may be directed Kristin Williams at khenke@memphis.edu and Jess Summey jsummey@gsu.edu.

All nominations must be received by end of day Sunday, March 1.

NOMINEE INFORMATION

COUNSELOR/ADVISOR INFORMATION

In submitting this nomination and initialing below,  I understand that my institution will also be required to produce and send a short video (no more than 5 minutes in length) about our nominee and his/her story.