Men’s ice hockey coach, Pete Whitney, retired after seven successful years at Post University. As coach, he not only wanted his players to be good athletes, but more importantly, he wanted his players to be good people.
After two years of virtual ceremonies, the 2022 Swoopy Awards returned in-person on May 3, 2022 with excitement and fanfare. The annual banquet recognizes the hard work and dedication on the fields and courts and in the classroom of our student-athletes and teams.
We love sharing stories about our students. Here are some from the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business. They are all part of the 2022 class of Baldrige Scholars, representing the top five percent of graduates from the school.
When the coronavirus pandemic upturned the world, Ash Lee Hicks was working as a nurse at her children’s elementary school in Fayetteville, Arkansas. When schools closed and the family became immersed in remote learning, she decided it was time to do something she’d wanted to do for a long time: earn a master’s degree.
When Sam Bass was growing up in Ohio, the path of nursing wasn’t a common one, but his aspirations to help others never faded. In April he graduated with a Doctor of Nursing Practice Executive Leadership.
When Aibar Colón started his college education, he was eager to get into the workforce. After a while, Aibar returned to school for a bachelor’s degree in marketing—an area of interest—graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2002.