Background: Every North Carolina college/university is requested to nominate students to represent their institution as having demonstrated outstanding student leadership and future professional involvement in the following six categories:
Health majors or minors
Physical Education majors or minors
Dance majors or minors
Athletics/Coaching majors of minors
Adapted Physical Education majors or minors (May be a graduate student)
Sport Management majors or minors
All Student Majors of the Year nominees will be recognized at the NC SHAPE Convention.
Criteria:
Each applicant must attend a North Carolina college or university.
The applicant must be an undergraduate student majoring in one of NC SHAPE allied as seen above, with a proven leadership record of the highest quality. The exception will be for the Adapted PE Category, as graduate students will be allowed to enter this category.
The recipient must be a member of NC SHAPE.
The recipient must have a minimum GPA of 3.0.
There are 6 different award categories:
Health Student of the Year
Physical Education Student of the Year
Sport Management Student of the Year
Dance Student of the Year
Adapted Physical Education Student of the Year
Athletics Student of the Year.
Each college or university can only submit one application per category. In other words, a student can only be nominated to one of the PE and Adapted PE categories.
Overall Winners and Outstanding NC SHAPE Future Professional of the Year: Student(s) from the 6 categories will be eligible to be selected as the Outstanding NC SHAPE Future Professional of the Year.
Nomination Deadline: October 1 of each year.
Instructions
Application Documents: Please download the three documents listed below. One is our Process Guidelines, one is the Nominee Cover Sheet, and the last is the guidelines for the required written narrative to be completed by your student(s).
(3) Cover Sheet to be completed by your school Dean, Department Head or Program Coordinator.
The completion of these three items and the student's Letters of Recommendation (a maximum of 3) will be uploaded on the Submission Page.
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Dan Grube at dan@ncshape.org.
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