More than 100 K-State students receive Wabash CannonBall Kansas City Scholarships
The K-State Alumni Association has awarded 109 scholarships to Kansas State University students for the 2023-24 school year through the Wabash CannonBall Kansas City program.
The Wabash CannonBall gala is an annual black-tie event which includes an evening of dining and dancing to raise scholarship money for students from the Kansas City-area to attend K-State. The gala was started in 2007 and, to date, this event has awarded nearly 1,000 scholarships for Kansas City-area students totaling nearly $2.5 million. Additionally, the Wabash CannonBall Kansas City also has funded a scholarship endowment fund totaling $3.9 million.
“So many K-State students have benefitted from the generosity and support of their fellow Wildcats in the Kansas City-area over the past decade and a half,” said Andrea Bryant Gladin, assistant vice president of alumni programs for the Alumni Association. “It is truly amazing to see how much this event has done for the K-State community as a whole. We want to thank everyone who has helped grow this event from where we started in 2007 to where we are today.”
The students receiving scholarships in the amount of $2,500 for the upcoming academic year were selected from a wide pool of applicants. To be eligible for the scholarship, students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.25 on a weighted or unweighted scale and reside in the greater Kansas City-area, which includes Johnson, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas, and Jackson, Cass, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri.
The scholarship recipients include 55 incoming freshmen. The incoming freshman who received the scholarship listed by hometown are:
Myles King, Belton, Missouri; Treyton Ulberg, Independence, Missouri; Collin Burton, Alyssa Sukup, and Josephine Valdivia, Kansas City, Missouri; Nathan Dembski, Kearney, Missouri; Logan Harder, Leawood, Kansas; Alexander Scheier and Mark McNamara, Lee's Summit, Missouri; Breanna Cole, Renae Kohles, Megan Law, Brendan Rickert, Mary Sanborn and Carson Wolf, Lenexa, Kansas; Landon Barner, Liberty, Missouri; Elizabeth Davis and Elyssa Jacklovich, Louisburg, Kansas; Blake Boydston, Macy Bush, Brenna Chism, Amelia Keen, Marie Kerschen, Lillian Lowe, Kristopher Schmale, Sophia Struck, Ashley Taylor, Jaclyn Wasinger, Trace Wielage, Addison Willcott, Anna Wolfe and Elena McGuire, Olathe, Kansas; Josh Elliott, Alexis Forgy, Andrew Gafrick, Ally Kapple, Annie Kapple, Elizabeth Morrissey, Robert Paulbeck, Lauren Seals, Reece Walrod and Alex Ward, Overland Park, Kansas; Charles Davis and Isabella Schmidt, Parkville, Missouri; Logan Forssberg, Owen Hooper, Lauren Lueckenotto, Alyson Van Nieuwenhuyse, Max Waren, Lindsey Whorley and Noah Coy, Shawnee, Kansas; Allyssa Banman, Riley Merritt and Sydney Ruder, Stilwell, Kansas; and Libby Vandel, Weston, Missouri.
Additionally, 54 current K-State students have received the opportunity to have their scholarship renewed for the 2023-24 school year. They are:
Logan Mitchell, Blue Springs, Missouri; Hannah McCormick, Bucyrus, Kansas; Jessica Binckley, Kayleigh Bednar, Summer Murphy, Evie Rodenbaugh, Kaylyn Taylor and Jameson Rauth, Kansas City, Missouri; Samantha Kopecky, Avanelle Stoltz, Ryan Pope, Alyssa Boudreau and Cole Mauer, Leawood, Kansas; Dylan Feist, Tamara Lopez Monroy, Madison Lowen, Olivia Waren, Jayden Brethour, Joshua Grimes and Mathys Moore, Lenexa, Kansas; Emily Shepherd, Liberty, Missouri; Theresa Burg, Cade Rapp, Nicholas Saia, Masen Kindler, Kate Weisner, Luke Bunker, Nalen Rangarajan, Sophia Schneider, Nick Suttle and Macie Warren, Olathe, Kansas; Jack Dillavou, Emily Farthing, Victoria Ward, Edward Berns-Hoyt, Abigail Collins, Nicholas Edwards, Jackson Meyer, Brenna Morrison, Josh Murdock, Lauren Weber, Sarah Anliker, Lindsey Farthing, Lydia Flynn and Jerome Schaefer, Overland Park, Kansas; Caroline Sandstrom and Blythe Bolar, Prairie Village, Kansas; Ella Boxx, Grace McLeod, Megan Whorley, Megan Freeman, Austin Mills and Bridget Roy, Shawnee, Kansas; and Daniel Mitchell, Spring Hill, Kansas.