WSU Warrior Waddle Scholarship

The WSU Warrior Waddle Scholarship is created to encourage and support students at WSU who participate in Women’s Track and Field.

Criteria

Recipient must be enrolled full-time at WSU
Recipient must be a member of WSU Women’s Track and Field team
Narrative statement of career and personal goals, volunteer involvement in community and work experience

Biography/Motivation

Track and field athletics had their beginning at Princeton in an intramural meet on June 21, 1873 — the first collegiate track contest held in the United States. The meet was organized by George Goldie, Scottish-born director of the gymnasium from 1869 to 1911, and called the Caledonian Games because of his success as an all-round champion in games staged by American and Canadian Caledonian Clubs. The names of some of the events reflected their Caledonian origin — standing long jump, running high leap, hitch and kick, vaulting with the pole. The Caledonian Games survived until 1947; thereafter they gave way to the fuller intercollegiate schedule of modern times.

Today at Winona State University we have the honor of hosting Tom Slaggie and Kathy Hovell who organize the 1st Annual WSU Warrior Waddle. Through their generous support of the Warrior Waddle they will have direct impact upon students at WSU, helping the Track and Field team to perform & function to the best of their abilities, both on & off the field. Tom and Kathy have continued to make the team by graciously established this scholarship with the proceeds from the Warrior Waddle to honor Women at WSU who participate on the track and field team.
WSU greatly appreciates their continued support and love of track.