Dave Maurer Honorary Scholarships Awarded To Deserving Students
Evan Cameron '14, Karlos Marshall '13, Tyler Yaple '14 and Alexey Topolyanskiy '15 have earned prestigious scholarship awards.
Karlos Marshall
Tyler Yaple
Alexey Topolyanskiy
Evan Cameron
Springfield, Ohio – It has been nearly two years since the passing of legendary coach, athletics administrator and professor Dave Maurer, but his impact continues in the form of four more scholarships awarded in his honor to deserving Wittenberg University students.
Evan Cameron, class of 2014 from Dover, Ohio, Karlos Marshall, class of 2013 from Springfield, Ohio, Alexey Topolyanskiy, class of 2014 from Moscow, Russia, and Tyler Yaple, class of 2014 from Dublin, Ohio, were selected to receive financial awards from the Dave Maurer Honorary Scholarship Fund during the 2013-14 academic year. They were chosen from a large pool of applicants to receive scholarships toward their Wittenberg tuition.
The Dave Maurer Honorary Scholarship was created in 2008 to be awarded to a sophomore, junior or senior male student with financial need who has demonstrated such qualities as self-discipline, teamwork, cooperation, hard work, self-confidence, pride in accomplishment, competitive spirit, and the ability to deal with adversity. It is a tuition scholarship that may be renewable on an annual basis or may be rotated, per a selection committee’s discretion.
Cameron has become a campus leader in his three years at Wittenberg. He has made the most of his liberal arts educational experience, preparing for a career in medicine while majoring in English and maintaining a grade point average near 4.0. He has traveled to the impoverished kingdom of Lesotho in Africa to serve orphans, performed in a local production of The Nutcracker, worked as an athletic trainer for the Tiger teams and has served as president of the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Marshall is majoring in philosophy and preparing for a career in higher education administration in hopes of making an impact on the lives of future minority college students. A three-year starter at cornerback for the Wittenberg football team, Marshall has also been active in campus activities, including Concerned Black Students and the Connectors Program. In addition, he participated in a Habitat for Humanity community service trip to Mississippi.
Yaple is a three-year letterwinner for the Tiger men’s golf team who is majoring in political science. He was involved in student government during his freshman year, has represented his team on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and has served as a lead mentor in Wittenberg’s Peer Mentors program during his collegiate career. In addition, Yaple serves as chapter president of his fraternity and works in the Office of Admission as a tour guide.
Topolyanskiy is a two-year letterwinner for the Tiger men’s tennis team. Named the team’s Newcomer of the Year and a second-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) selection in 2012, Topolyanskiy is studying financial economics at Wittenberg.
Maurer remains one of the most beloved Wittenberg leaders and mentors in the illustrious history of the university’s varsity athletics program, especially among the student-athletes he guided on and off the field during his 40 years (1955-95) as an athletics administrator, professor and coach of the Tiger football, swimming, track and field, and golf teams.
Maurer led the Tigers to two NCAA Division III football national championships as a head coach, in addition to a West Region title in 1969. He also and served as assistant coach for two other national title teams. In addition, the 1978 and 1979 squads finished second in the NCAA Division III Tournament. Maurer earned national coach of the year honors twice, district coach of the year four times and conference coach of the year five times. His career culminated with induction into the National College Football Hall of Fame in 1991, the first “true” NCAA Division III coach to garner such recognition.
After more than a decade as an assistant football coach, Maurer took the reins in 1969 from fellow National College Football Hall of Famer, Bill Edwards. Maurer posted a career record of 129-23-3, good for an astounding .842 winning percentage, best among active coaches at that time. His Tiger teams went undefeated three times and won seven Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) championships in his 15 seasons as head coach, to go along with seven OAC crowns during his years as an assistant coach.
Click here to view the Dave Maurer tribute website.
Written By: Ryan Maurer