The STARR & CHAMPS/Life Skills Team is pleased to announce the sixth and final STARR of the Month for the 2002-2003 academic year, senior Jessica Lawson (Akron, Ohio/Revere High School). Jessica is a chemistry and communications major. She is a 4-year letter winner on the swimming and diving team and is a first-year member of the golf team.
At Baldwin-Wallace, Jess is a member of the American Chemical Society, was a Emerging Leaders Retreat committee member, Distinguished Leaders Conference student director, Newman Center Organization member, Chemistry lab assistant, in Phi Mu, a Resident Assistant, and a recruitment counselor. Her honors include Laurels Honor society, Dean's list student, Lambda Pi Eta Speech Honor Society, Dayton C. Miller Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, Sigma Pi National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry, Alpha Lambda Freshman Honor society, and Kappa Mu Epsilon Math Honor Society. Jessica was also named the CRC Press Outstanding Freshman Chemistry major (2000). At Honors Day 2002, Jessica was the recipient of the Johonna Comp Dellner Scholarship and the Chemistry Department Memorial Scholarship.
Jessica was also selected to participate in oral communication programs such as "In Women's Words"(2000), and "Cool Women" (2001). She was this year's Panhellenic Council's guest speaker for their annual Women's Week Luncheon. Jessica recently had a communications research paper entitled "The Effects of Parental Divorce on Offsprings' Ability to Form Lasting Relationships" accepted to be presented at the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) national conference in Washington, D.C. this April.
Her nominator said, "If I could describe Jess in one word it would be "busy". Jess is busy in every aspect of her life. She does an outstanding job academically, is a varsity student-athlete in swimming and golf, she is a RA, she is active in Greek life...she somehow figures out how to put 100 hours worth of work in 24 hours".
Athletically, as a first-year member of the swimming & diving team in 1999, Jessica won All-OAC accolades in the 50 freestyle, the 400 free relay, the 200 medley relay and the 200 free relay. Jessica won All-OAC honors for the 50, 100, and 200-yard freestyle events. As a junior, Jessica earned All-OAC honors in the 50 freestyle helping the women's team to a first-ever conference championship. This year at the OAC meet, Jess set personal bests in the 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle. She was a member of the championship 200 freestyle relay, seventh in the 100 freestyle, eighth in the 50 freestyle, and eleventh in the 200 freestyle. Overall, Jess is the 4th fastest 50 freestyler and 8th fastest 100 freestyler in B-W Swimming and Diving History.
The STARR of the Month program stands for Student-athletes Taking Active Responsible Roles. The program was developed in conjunction with two NCAA-related programs: CHAMPS/Life Skills and the STARR pilot of which B-W is one of eight D-III grant recipients.
The STARR of the Month Program recognizes student-athletes who are showing a great balance between athletic, academic, personal, service, leadership and other involvement. We, in CHAMPS/Life Skills, strive to focus on positive role-modeling among our student-athletes. Recipients must carry a 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA, be in at least their second year of competition at B-W and make positive contributions to the Campus and surrounding communities. We know our student-athletes excel in many areas and it is time to show the Campus and surrounding community how proud we are.
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