CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Sixteen University of Illinois students from the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses have been awarded Avery Brundage Scholarships for excellence in academics and athletics. Each winner will receive a $2,500 award for the 2014-2015 academic year. The nine recipients from the Urbana-Champaign campus, with their sport and field of study, are below. (EDITORS: See list.) There were four recipients from UIC and three from UIS.
The Avery Brundage Scholarship Fund Committee, made up of nine representatives from the faculties and student bodies of the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana-Champaign campuses, selects students who engage in athletics for personal development, not as preparation for professional sports. In addition, the students must be working toward bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees at the U. of I. and must be in the upper 25 percent of their undergraduate class or in good academic standing in their graduate program.
The scholarship program was established in 1974 by an endowment from Avery Brundage, University of Illinois alumnus and former president of the International and U.S. Olympic committees.
2014-15 AVERY BRUNDAGE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
BUFFALO GROVE – Courtney Weisman, figure skating, applied health sciences
CHICAGO – Melissa Andruzzi, swimming, veterinary medicine
HARRISBURG – Ryne Roper, baseball, education
LAKE FOREST- Ryne Beeson, running, engineering
NORTHBROOK – Jeffrey Zohn, soccer, law
PROSPECT HEIGHTS- Nicole Preston, basketball, veterinary medicine
SPRINGFIELD – Jake Hamill, swimming, engineering
URBANA – Michael Moore, tennis, medicine at UIC
INTERNATIONAL
GERMANY, Bochum – Jannis Toepfer, running, engineering. [
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