Congratulations to our exceptional business students who were honored for superior academics and leadership accomplishments for 2019.
May 08, 2019
By Elaine Cole
At the 38th annual Neeley Awards Banquet, awards were handed out to exceptional undergraduate business students by O. Homer Erekson, the John V. Roach Dean of the Neeley School of Business. Dominic Micheli provided the invocation and Elizabeth Hilgemann presented the reflections.
Congratulations to these 2019 honorees:
Accounting
- Haley Nagel – Senior Accounting Scholar for academic excellence
- Charles Yong – Junior Accounting Award for academic excellence
- Taryn Atkinson – Geraldine Dominiak Memorial Award for Excellence for an outstanding scholar who recognized Dr. Stephen Lusch as her faculty mentor
- Jack Spooner – Henry Key Award for outstanding service
- Tatum Warren – Weaver Excellence in Accounting Award for academic excellence and depth of character
- Summer Bednarz – Texas Society of CPAs Accounting Excellence Award for academic excellence and career prospects, Master of Accounting
- Marisa Helf – Federation of Schools of Accountancy for academic excellence and high potential, Master of Accounting
- Summer Bednarz, Marisa Helf, Tiffany Wong – Texas Society of CPAs Accounting Education Foundation Scholarship
- Shaela Yeager – Admire Scholarship for academic success and commitment to community service
Finance
- David Hansen and Dominic Micheli – Senior Finance Scholars for academic excellence
- Danielle Dennis – Finance High Achievement Award
- Sarah Klimovitz and Thomas Malaspina – Lockheed Martin TCU FMA Award for scholarship and commitment
- Brooks Thomas – Wall Street Journal Award for uncommon aptitude in investments
- James Griffin – Outstanding Educational Investment Fund Student
- Zachary Hood and Conner Lovely – Meredith Fraker Thompson Memorial Scholarship in Finance as juniors with excellent academics and internships
- Benjamin Fowler, Collin Pratt, Joyce Shen – LKCM Center for Financial Studies Scholars as juniors with exemplary academics, community service and character
- Elliott Dow – TCU Real Estate Club Award for scholarship, leadership and dedication
- Timothy Kent – Fort Worth Mortgage Bankers Association Nola Crow Memorial Scholarship for outstanding junior interested in real estate
- Will Crummey and Kendall Graff – David B. Hendricks II Memorial Scholarship for outstanding finance with real estate majors
Business Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
- Molly Hamel – Senior Scholar for highest GPA
Business Information Systems
- Graham Leech – Professors’ Award for achievement and leadership
- Nathan Walker – Technology Award for outstanding knowledge of application tools and techniques
Supply and Value Chain Management
- Luke Thielke – Professors’ Award for achievement, leadership and involvement
- Claire Nguyen – Excellence in Academic Scholarship
- Anna McGraw – Center for Supply Chain Innovation Outstanding Student for leadership and professionalism
- Faith Hevey, Neal Mathew, Abigail Sanchez, Hannah Sobczak, Leah Williams – Fort Worth Institute for Supply Chain Management Scholarships
- Delaney Bare, Laurel Buck, Xuan Quach, Tyler Resnick, Cecilia Ryan – Supply and Value Chain Student Executive Program
Management, Entrepreneurship and Leadership
- Blake Bengtson – Senior MEL Scholar for highest GPA
- Charles McKee – Snell Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award for leadership and commitment to responsible citizenship
- Tailai Huang – Seth Hall Emerging Entrepreneur Award for being a successful student entrepreneur
- Danielle Robertson – John Davis Entrepreneurial Vision Award for significant career promise
- Devan Peplow – Entrepreneurial Leadership Award
- Nathanial Wolszon – Entrepreneurial Excellence in Management Award for excellence in academics and leadership
Marketing
- Elizabeth Hilgemann – Senior Marketing Scholar for highest GPA
- Sydney Schumacher – Outstanding Senior Marketing Student for high GPA and campus activity
- Danielle Gutknecht – Earl Dyess Award for strong work ethic and character
- Caroline Norton – Advertising and Digital Marketing Award for excelling in advertising and digital marketing
- Eleni Michaelides – American Marketing Association Leadership Award for high GPA and leadership
- Spencer Nast – Sales Award for interest and experience in sales
- Mackenzie Warren – International Marketing Scholar for interest and experience in global marketing
- Dana Field – DSS Research Marketing Research Award for excellence in marketing research
Special Recognition
- Elizabeth Hilgemann – Delta Sigma Pi Key Award for senior with the highest GPA in the Neeley School of Business
- Josie Fuhrman – Mosebrook/Pfizer Student Leader Award for school and community leadership
- Meg Gleason – First Place in the TCU Elevator Pitch Competition
- Devan Peplow, Mavis Tang, Maddie Kingsbury – First Place in the internal TCU Values and Ventures Competition
Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society
| Erica Anderson Dorothy Anderson William Beasley Madelyn Carlson Andrea Carrasquilla Reilly Cornell Sarah Cullen Ethan Epley Natalie Fedder Dana Field Christian Flick Connor Fragen Skylar Frazier Thomas Gilbert Sarah Goldberg Erin Heffernan |
Sophia Hickok Christian Holston Conner Lovely Duong Luong Jessica Marcotuli Katherine McDonald Ansley McWilliams Gabriela Melgar Suarez Richard Neville Joseph Redlingshafer Michael Schoenfelder Bryan Shaban Ye Shen Nathan Walker Joshua Witczak |
Neeley Fellows 2019 Graduates
| Delaney Bare Luke Beasley Blake Bengtson Thompson Berhow James Butterfield Race Collins Sean Connors Darby Duncan Sydney Galloway Grant Ginsburg James Griffin Victoria Guvenc Elizabeth Hilgemann Sarah Joe Ryan Jones Zach Kwiecien |
Jane Lynch Hayden Mahaney Eleni Michaelides Dominic Micheli Haley Nagel Claire Nguyen Emily Nicholson Kelli Pedersen Morgan Pocock Caleb Rogers Noah Ryan Sydney Schumacher Grace Turner Mackenzie Warren Griffin Whiting Sam Witherspoon |
BNSF Neeley Leadership Program 2019 Graduates
| Armaan Ahuja Bowen Baily Annie Beeson Hannah Davidian Annie Federer Nicholas Guarino Holly Hanson Laura Holetz Tailai Huang Catherine Khorram Nathan Lester Jack Lyddon Jack May Craig Miller Andy Mueller |
Austin Ngo Eric Ngo Hally Osdick Felipe Padilla Devan Peplow Elise Schraer Joseph Spellmeyer Mavis Tang Lindsey Thompson Matt Thompson Courtney Tushaus Kristin Watanabe Chandler Wehmeyer Chandler Whittington Nathan Wolszon |
Business Clubs and Organizations Presidents
Elizabeth Hilgemann, American Marketing Association
Chris Crump, BNSF Neeley Leadership Program
Sloan Scharold, Delta Sigma Pi
Thinh Nguyen, Entrepreneurship Club at TCU
Sydney Phillips, Financial Management Association
Dalton Standish, Neeley Fellows
Cole Harris, TCU Consulting Club
Elliott Dow, TCU Real Estate Club
Andrea Graves, Women’s Business Network
View and download photos from the 2019 Neeley Awards Banquet on our Flickr page.
