MSU Billings Scholarship Winners Announced (Apr. 21, 2005)

BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings Foundation Athletics Scholarship Committee has announced the recipients of its athletics scholarships for the 2005-2006 school year.  Eight different student-athletes will receive a total of $7,750 in endowed scholarship money next year.

Caitlin Luehr, Tiffany Piplica, Victor Sargent, and Kelsey Vinnedge each received a $1,000 scholarship from the Paul and Patti Gunville Athletic Scholarship Endowment.  Luehr is a sophomore softball player from Kalispell, Mont.  Piplica is a sophomore cross-country runner from Riverton, Wyo.  Sargent is a sophomore soccer player from Billings.  Vinnedge is a sophomore soccer player from Great Falls, Mont.

Abby Bennett, Janica Larsen and Nicole Salsbery each received a $1,000 Frances S. Barker Endowed Scholarship.  Bennet is a freshman soccer player from Livingston, Mont.  Larsen is a freshman soccer player from Salt Lake City, UT.  Salsbery is a freshman golfer from Malta, Mont.

Tanner Rienhart received the $1,000 Dick Edwards Memorial Endowed Scholarship.  Rienhart is sophomore cheerleader from Dickinson, ND. 

Diana Davis received the $1,000 Athletic Endowed Scholarship.  Davis is a junior cross-country runner from Kalispell, Mont. 

Christy Wankel received the $750 Softball Endowed Scholarship.  Wankel is a junior from Great Falls, Mont.

Jay Jamieson received the $1,000 Men’s Basketball Endowed Scholarship.  Jamieson is a freshman from Big Sandy, Mont.