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

  • Elizabeth Schaffer, Springfield College

Bill Kane Health Education Undergraduate Scholarship

  • Manon Lee, Emporia State University (KS)

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

Physical activity interventions to increase children's social and emotional learning: A systematic review and meta-analysis based on the comprehensive school physical activity programme framework

  • Jongho Moon, Western Michigan University
  • Collin A. Webster, Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi
  • Kelly Lynn Mulvey, North Carolina State University
  • Ali Brian, University of South Carolina
  • David F. Stodden, University of South Carolina
  • Cate A. Egan, University of Idaho
  • Taemin Ha, University of New York- Queens College
  • Christopher B. Merica, University of North Carolina- Wilmington
  • Michael W. Beets, University of South Carolina

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

Leroy T. Walker Young Professional Award

  • Cory Dixon, Rowan University, NJ

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

  • Ron and Lisa French, Texas Women’s University

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

  • Christopher Hill, California State University - San Bernardino

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

  • Joe Deutsch, North Dakota State University

Presidential Citations

  • Jennifer Rushin, Montgomery County Public School
  • Karen Kart, Montgomery County Public School
  • Teresa Shatzer, Montgomery County Public School

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

  • Abigail 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