More than 120 K-State students receive Wabash CannonBall Kansas City Scholarships
The K-State Alumni Association has awarded 120 scholarships to Kansas State University students for the 2025-26 school year through the Wabash CannonBall Kansas City program.
The Wabash CannonBall gala is an annual black-tie event which includes an evening of dining and dancing to raise scholarship money for students from the Kansas City-area to attend K-State. The gala was started in 2007 and, to date, this event has awarded more than 1,200 scholarships for Kansas City-area students totaling more than $3 million.
“So many K-State students have benefitted from the generosity and support of their fellow Wildcats in the Kansas City-area over the past 18 years,” said Andrea Bryant Gladin, vice president of alumni engagement for the Alumni Association. “It is truly amazing to see how much this event has done for the K-State community as a whole. We want to thank everyone who has helped grow this event from where we started in 2007 to where we are today.”
The students receiving scholarships in the amount of $2,500 for the upcoming academic year were selected from a wide pool of applicants. To be eligible for the scholarship, students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.25 on a weighted or unweighted scale and reside in the greater Kansas City-area, which includes Johnson, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas, and Jackson, Cass, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri.
The scholarship recipients include 55 incoming freshmen. The incoming freshmen who received the scholarship, listed by hometown, are:
Rebecca Sedgwick, Bonner Springs, Kansas; Adryan Foltz, Bucyrus, Kansas; Lucas Claussen, De Soto, Kansas; Allyson Rietcheck, Gardner, Kansas; Aidan Wilson, Grain Valley, Missouri; Savannah Rocha, Independence, Missouri; Jesse Vu and Josie Wessinger, Kansas City, Missouri; Teah Calini and Ella Grant, Leawood, Kansas; Dylan Esely, Rachel Hesemann and Lauren Woodruff, Lee’s Summit, Missouri; Quinton Brungardt, Isabelle Connealy, Sarah Ezer, Charles Fasl, Tate Sher, Cerilene Washam and Lilly Wheeler, Lenexa, Kansas; Caden Barner, Joey Curtis and Camden Findlay, Liberty, Missouri; Abby Burton, Abigail Dresbach, Taylor Foxworthy, McKinley Hunter, Isaiah Lang, Addison Lowe, Bria Taylor, Laura Umscheid, Victor Vaccaro, Reese Walters and Emma Wolfe, Olathe, Kansas; Josiah Bilbrey, Duncan Black, Kenlie Carter, Cooper Contrucci, Macie Gorman, Kallie Keiter, Samuel Novacek, Millie Reitz, Amelia Schaefer and Alexa Stephens, Overland Park, Kansas; Logan Alexander and Kayden Worthey, Paola, Kansas; Amelia Scrogham, Pleasant Hill, Missouri; and Charlotte Caldwell, Erin Meade, Logan Miller, Addison Riffel, Brynn Shideler, Stella Showalter, Brooke Wagner and Jude Wunder, Shawnee, Kansas
Additionally, 65 returning K-State students had their scholarship renewed. They are listed by hometown:
Logan Mitchell, Blue Springs, Missouri; Hannah McCormick, Bucyrus, Kansas; Naomi Fuller, Ally Heintz, Jameson Rauth and Alyssa Sukup, Kansas City, Missouri; Alyssa Boudreau and Cole Mauer, Leawood, Kansas; Alexander Scheier and McKinley Robb, Lee’s Summit, Missouri; Jayden Brethour, Breanna Cole, Pat Donnelly, Joshua Grimes, Renae Kohles, Katelyn Kuckelman, Mathys Moore, Brendan Rickert and Carson Wolf, Lenexa, Kansas; Lola Edwards, Louisburg, Kansas; Blake Boydston, Luke Bunker, Brenna Chism, Addison Henige, Kaylee Howell, Riley Legleiter, Payton Marteney, Delana Ortiz, Nalen Rangarajan, Trenton Rogers, Sophia Schneider, Sophia Struck, Nick Suttle, Ashley Taylor, Macie Warren and Anna Wolfe, Olathe, Kansas; Jordan Culton, Lindsey Farthing, Lydia Flynn, Alexis Forgy, Andrew Gafrick, Adelyn Garst, Ryan Horsch, Ally Kapple, Annie Kapple, Robert Paulbeck, Jerome Schaefer, Clara Straub, Reece Walrod and Alex Ward, Overland Park, Kansas; Alana Bollinger, Paola, Kansas; Charles Davis, Ava Guastello and Isabella Schmidt, Parkville, Missouri; Caroline Sandstrom and Natalee Sandstrom, Prairie Village, Kansas; Megan Freeman, Austin Mills, Bridget Roy, Lucy Roy, Isaac Stanley, Sofia Steinmetz and Alyson Van Nieuwenhuyse, Shawnee, Kansas; Daniel Mitchell, Spring Hill, Kansas; and Riley Merritt, Stilwell, Kansas
