Looking Back on An Amazing Night: The 2025 Annual Awards
It was truly an unforgettable night for the Alpaugh Family Economics Center!
Our 2025 Annual Awards at Fifth Third Arena brought together an inspiring group of educators, business leaders, community volunteers, and supporters of financial education and economic research.
We are proud to celebrate our outstanding honorees:
– Roll Hill School, StEP School of the Year
– Fifth Third Bank, StEP Volunteers of the Year
– The African-American Chamber of Greater Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky, Research Impact Award winner
– Brian Brockhoff, recipient of the Economic Empowerment Award
A heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsors and to moderator Dan Hoard for leading an insightful panel on Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) with UC Senior Deputy Athletic Director John Daniel, Cincy Reigns chair Brian Fox, Cincy Sports Partners president Ryan Holmes, Head Women’s Basketball Coach Katrina Merriweather, UC women’s basketball student athlete Reagan Jackson, and Rhinegeist Sales Director Dana Cummin. Their discussion offered powerful perspectives on the future of college athletics.
Special thanks to our Emerging Leaders for organizing a successful raffle and split-the-pot fundraiser to support financial education in schools.
Check out our photo album below to relive an incredible evening celebrating #TheWorkThatMatters!
You can watch the full 2025 Annual Awards Program Here!
The 2024 Annual Awards at Great American Ball Park
We had a spectacular night at Great American Ball Park for our 2024 Annual Awards! A huge thanks to the Cincinnati Reds for their collaboration, particularly our fabulous keynote panel including Reds Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations Karen Forgus, Reds President of Baseball Operations Nick Krall, and Reds President Phil Castellini. And having Reds legend George Foster there made the night even more special!
Congratulations to all our award winners, including Deer Park Community City Schools as our Susan Sargen Student Enterprise Program (StEP) District of the Year, Colette Smith from the Muskingum Valley ESC as our Personal Finance Educator of the Year, our friends from Messer Construction Co. as our StEP Volunteers of the Year, Bill Neyer as our Economic Empowerment Award winner, and Western & Southern as our Research Impact Award winner!
Thanks once more to our amazing sponsors as well! Your support means we’ll be able to bring financial and economic education to even more students next year.
