C.E. “Tuck” and Becky Tate Turfgrass Scholarship
Tuck and Becky Tate spent the latter part of their lives owning and running the Frankfort Golf Club in Frankfort, Michigan. Tuck was instrumental in starting the Northern Michigan Turf Managers association in 1980. When they sold their Golf Club in 1984, they donated $100,000 to MSU to endow their Scholarship, that began in 1986. To date the total scholarship money total well over $400,000.
YEAR | RECIPIENT |
1989 | Kevin Bramer |
Allen Clemons | |
Keith Gawronski | |
Michael Miesle | |
Jonathan Santina | |
1990 | Douglas Kendziorski |
Steven Sump | |
1991 | Patrick Howard |
William Mock | |
Richard Murphy | |
1992 | Gary Chapman |
Steve Sowatsky | |
1993 | Terry Boehm |
Glen Rochester | |
1994 | Alex Greenacre |
Mike Kitchen | |
1995 | Paul Emling |
Richard Fadely | |
1996 | Michael Normand |
Brian O'Kane | |
1997 | Matthew Haberkorn |
Brett Hudson | |
Stephen Princinsky | |
1998 | Don Lawrence |
Jose Makk | |
Deron Rake | |
1999 | Tavis Horton |
Chad Papke | |
Scott Spooner | |
2000 | Greg Bliek |
Timothy Lee | |
Scott Suchenski | |
2001 | Sean Flynn |
Jeffrey Rottier | |
Frederic Ruffer | |
2002 | Francisco Blasquez |
Antonio Pineda | |
Scott Rose | |
2003 | Nicholas Hillyard |
Alison Robart | |
2004 | Brad Champine |
Christian Koval | |
Joseph Krum | |
2005 | William Holloway |
Bradley Kiepert | |
Kevin Wilson | |
2006 | Nathaniel Borth |
William Devries | |
Paul Grabbe | |
Christopher Groene | |
2007 | Joaquin Berjano |
Brent Kovacs | |
John Smalley | |
2008 | Matthew Belecki |
Brandon Drzewicki | |
Christopher Parsons | |
2009 | Joshua Fuhrman |
Michael Wallace | |
2010 | Thomas Ham |
Diego Penapareja | |
Robert Pray | |
2011 | Brian Hilfinger |
Andrea Patussi | |
2012 | N/A |
2013 | Thomas Jacobs |
Alex Lincoln | |
Michael Montney | |
2014 | Eric Chestnut |
Scott Peck | |
Michael Stakoe | |
2015 | Andres Gonzalez-Onieva |
Michael Wright | |
2016 | Ryan Bearss |
Carlota Sanchez de Ocana Hudobro | |
Lewis Nowakowski | |
2017 | Jason Decker |
Peter Zeiger | |
2018 | Sean Mcgorisk |
Justin Mooney | |
2019 | Eric Boyle |
Nick Young | |
2020 | Ismael Herruzo Delgado |
Adam Nadeau | |
Cameron Wyatt | |
2021 | Clayton Hoekwater |
Darryl Jackson | |
Colin King | |
2022 | Cole Luck |
David Parker | |
2023 | Ben Grainer |
Eli Vandenbrand | |
Alex Nagy |