Heidemann Named College Finalist For Wooden Citizenship Cup

Ashland University fifth-year guard Hallie Heidemann was announced on Tuesday (Dec. 6) afternoon as a college finalist for the 2023 Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup.
 
Heidemann is one of 26 college finalists for the College Cup. She recently became the Ashland women's basketball program's all-time leader in 3-point field goals with 279, and is two points away from 1,300 in her Eagle career. So far in 2022-23, Heidemann is averaging 10.3 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, while leading AU with 17 3-pointers.
 
She graduated in May of 2022 with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.87 as an Intervention Specialist K-12 Mild/Moderate/Intensive major.
 
John Wooden, legendary men's basketball coach at UCLA from 1948-75, gave Athletes for a Better World (ABW) permission to present an award in his name. The Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is presented to six distinguished athletes from any sport – male/female high school, male/female intercollegiate, and male/female professional – who best display character, teamwork, and citizenship, the attributes Athletes for a Better World deems central to transforming individuals, sport, and society.
 
The award establishes the recipients as athletes of excellence both on and off the field, role models both as performers and persons, the most important and distinctive honor athletes can achieve.
 
Since 2016, ABW and The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA) have formed a partnership to recognize a male and female student-athlete as national scholarship winners and recipients of the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup high school division. The NIAAA's competition includes an essay portion which asks the applicants to contemplate how the ABW Code for Living has been reflected in their life experiences.
 
The announcement of the one male and one female College Cup recipients will be made during the first week of January, 2023. Planning will then commence for the April 27, 2023 evening ceremony at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.