Nebraska Athletic Communications student-assistant Paige Trutna has been chosen as the winner of the 2024-25 Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship, the College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced on Thursday, May 30.
Trutna, who earned her bachelor’s degree from Nebraska as a dual major in journalism and sports media and communications with better than a 3.9 GPA earlier this month, has spent the past three seasons as a student-assistant in the Athletic Communications Office. She was the primary communications contact for the Nebraska women’s gymnastics team in 2024. She also has spent three seasons as the primary contact for the Nebraska rifle program. Trutna, who is also a graduate of Lincoln Lutheran High School, plans to use the $6,000 award to pursue a master’s degree in integrated media communications while serving as a graduate student in the Nebraska Athletic Communications Office.
Trutna is the most recent winner in an impressive line of Nebraska postgraduate and undergraduate scholarship recipients in the history of the College Sports Communicators Scholarship Program. The Nebraska Athletic Communications Office has claimed a nation-leading eight combined postgraduate (5), undergraduate (2) and member-child scholarships (1). The CSC Postgraduate awards date to 1981, while the undergraduate scholarship program began in 1999. Since 1981, students from more than 100 colleges and universities across all divisions have earned scholarships from CSC, including postgraduate scholarship winners from 58 schools and undergraduate scholarship recipients from 43 institutions.
In 2014, CSC added a Member-Child Scholarship to further support the activities of its membership. The program has awarded 22 children of full-time CSC members with $1,000 scholarships renewable up to four years. Nebraska Athletic Communications also has claimed one of those prestigious awards based on the academic performance of each student applicant.
Nebraska CSC Scholarship Recipients
2024 – Paige Trutna (Postgraduate)
2022 – Maddie Peterson (Undergraduate)
2021 – Jeff Griesch-Hollan Griesch (Member-Child)
2019 – Gabriel Vegas-Valente (Undergraduate)
2016 – Lorie Garnett (Postgraduate)
2016 – James Hayek (Postgraduate)
1997 – Jeff Griesch (Postgraduate)
1996 – Jeff Griesch (Postgraduate)
