Celebrate SHAPE America Award Winners
in Health and Physical Education

 

Congratulations to the following 2025 SHAPE America award recipients and lecturers, who will be recognized at the SHAPE America National Convention & Expo in Baltimore. Our professions benefit daily from the hard work, dedication and vision of all of these individuals.

 

View the 2025 District Teachers of the Year.

Luther Halsey Gulick Award

The Luther Halsey Gulick Award is the highest honor SHAPE America bestows in recognition of long and distinguished service to one or more of the professions.

Phillip Ward Headshot
Phillip Ward The Ohio State University

Barbara A. Cooley Health Education Master’s Scholarship

  • Manon Lee, Emporia State University (KS)

Bill Kane Health Education Undergraduate Scholarship

  • Elizabeth Gildea, Springfield College

C.H. McCloy Research Lecture

  • Lecturer: Phillip Ward, The Ohio State University

Claudine Sherrill Adapted Physical Education Distinguished Lecture & Awards

  • Lecturers:  Ron and Lisa French, Texas Woman’s University (retired)

Adapted PE/Activity Graduate Student of the Year Award

  • Cora Firkin, University of Delaware

Adapted PE/Activity Program of the Year Award

  • Andria Dominique Cruz Macaraeg, Guam Department of Education

CSPAP Keynote Lecture

  • Lecturer: Zan Gao, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

CSPAP SIG Innovative Paper Award

  • TBD

Curriculum & Instruction Scholar Lecture

  • Lecturer: Donal Howley, Towson University
  • Lecturer: Andrew Milne, New Trier High School

Dr. Doris R. Corbett Johnson Leaders for Our Future Award

University

  • JP Rech, University of Nebraska Kearney
  • Micah Dobson, North Carolina State University

Non-University

  • Bryanna Mieles, Skyview Elementary School, CO

E. B. Henderson Award

  • Felicia Ceasar White, Houston ISD, TX

Helen Heitmann Young Scholar Award

  • Scott McNamara, University of New Hampshire

Joy of Effort Award

  • Robert Knipe, Southern Connecticut State University
  • Jan Bishop, Central Connecticut State University

Julian U. Stein Lifetime Achievement Award

  • TBD

Lolas E. Halverson Scholar Lecture

  • Lecturer: Pamela Beach, Rochester Institute of Technology

Measurement & Evaluation JoAnne Safrit Lecture

  • Lecturer: James Zhang, University of Georgia

M&E Lifetime Achievement Award

  • James Zhang, University of Georgia

M&E Graduate Student Award

  • Ju-Pil Choe, University of Mississippi

Mentor of the Year

  • Cathy McKay, James Madison University

MPEES Reviewer of the Year

  • TBD

North American Society of Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance Fellows

  • TBD

Presidential Citations

  • TBD

Raymond A. Weiss Lecture

  • Lecturer: Matthew Curtner-Smith, University of Alabama

Research Council Distinguished Service Award

  • Erin Centeio, University of Hawai’i

Research Fellows

  • Chad Killian, University of New Hampshire
  • Nicole Kirk, University of Georgia
  • Yubing Wang, Old Dominion University

RQES Lecture

  • Lecturer: Nancy Getchell, University of Delaware

Ruth Abernathy Presidential Scholarships

Undergraduate

  • Abagail GaNun, Southern Connecticut State University
  • Ariana Walker, Winona State University
  • Klayton Donoghue, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Graduate

  • Wellington De Luna-Vazquez, Georgia State University

SHAPE America Daryl Siedentop Scholar Lecture

  • Lecturer: Hans Van Der Mars, Arizona State University

Thom McKenzie Research Grant 2025

  • Xiaoping Fan, State University of New York at Cortland
  • Ashlyn Brown, University of Wyoming