CLEVELAND, OHIO –The Mid-American Conference announced Kent State's Jordan Italiano as its male recipient of the 2016 Bob James Memorial Scholarship Award. Voted upon by the league's faculty athletics representatives, Italiano will receive a $5,000 postgraduate scholarship.
In its 28th year, the Bob James Memorial Scholarship Award recognizes one female and one male student who have achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.50 and have displayed good character, leadership and citizenship. The students are nominated during the year in which they complete their final season of eligibility. The scholarship is awarded in honor of Bob James, the second commissioner in Mid-American Conference history (1964-71).