VSU Honors Wesley Hanson With College student-Athlete Academic Award

VALDOSTA — John Wesley Hanson of Macon, Georgia, is the recipient of the 2021 Student-Athlete Tutorial Award at Valdosta Condition College.

“This award is meaningful because superior issues choose time, and I am last but not least capable to see my tricky operate and dedication spend dividends on and off the golfing study course,” he explained.

The Student-Athlete Tutorial Award is offered to a junior, senior, or graduate university student-athlete with the greatest quality place ordinary. Ties are not damaged. Hanson, a member of the men’s golf staff, previously gained this award in 2020.

Hanson will graduate summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Business enterprise Administration in Management and a Slight in Accounting during VSU’s 231^st Graduation at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 7, at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium.  

After graduation Hanson ideas to go on his education and pursue a Master of Organization Administration at VSU, though taking total gain of an excess calendar year of currently being qualified to engage in with the men’s golf crew. The Countrywide Collegiate Athletic Association extended player eligibility for just one year thanks to the world-wide pandemic’s effects on higher education-amount sporting activities that announcement was produced in the tumble.

Hanson sees a selection of choices for his potential profession, with management consulting or athletic administration now at the prime of his list. His supportive loved ones involves dad and mom Jeff and Ellen Hanson, brother Brooks Hanson, and beloved dog Randy Hanson.

As a pupil at VSU, Hanson served as captain of the men’s golfing workforce, president of the Wesley Foundation, and an active member of the Pupil-Athlete Advisory Committee, Beta Gamma Sigma: The Global Business Honor Culture, and Sigma Alpha Pi: The Nationwide Modern society of Management and Achievements.

Hanson’s commitment to academic, athletic, leadership, and assistance excellence resulted in him earning repeated Dean’s Checklist honors, the 2020-2021 Belk Hudson Management Scholarship, the 2019-2020 Scruggs Scholarships, the 2019 Maxwell Joseph Stephenson Memorial Scholarship, and the 2018-2021 Lewis G. Russell and Buster Cowart Jr. Golfing Scholarship. He was named the Spring 2021 President’s Award for Tutorial Excellence receiver for the Harley Langdale Jr. College of Enterprise Administration, which is offered to a graduating student with the greatest grade level normal in every single of VSU’s six schools.

The College or university Sports activities Details Administrators of The usa (CoSIDA) selected Hanson for 3rd Workforce Educational All-The united states honors all through the 2019-2020 educational calendar year, producing him the to start with Blazer to gain that distinction in the record of the men’s golf application at VSU.

The Gulf South Meeting named Hanson Freshman of the Year in 2018 and Spring Men’s Golf Champion Scholar-Athlete of the 12 months in 2019-2020. He gathered a number of Gulf South Meeting tutorial awards through his time at VSU.

Hanson was also a three-time receiver of the Srixon/Cleveland Golfing All-The us Scholars Award. He anticipates earning this award all over again this year.

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