Clapper and Skaggs joined fellow Gators Elise Bauer (swimming), Trinity Thomas (gymnastics) and soccer gamers Kamari Wilson and Derek Wingo at the banquet tonight to kick off the NIL Summit.
Two ??♀️winners tonight at inaugural NIL Summit Awards in ATL@leahclapper is 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣ Scholar Athlete of the Year!#GoGators
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— Gators Gymnastics (@GatorsHealth club) June 14, 2022
Leah Clapper: Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Clapper is recipient of the Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, honoring the student-athlete who achieved distinctive ends in the classroom and of their respective sport whereas maximizing their NIL for the better good.
Clapper has earned each educational and athletic All-America honors at Florida. As a junior in 2021, Clapper earned her first collegiate 10.0 for steadiness beam, claimed All-America and All-Southeastern Conference honors and was gymnastics’ SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She’s a three-time Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Scholastic All-American and was named to the 2021 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America first group.
She graduated summa cum laude in August of 2021 along with her bachelor’s diploma in promoting. Clapper is at the moment pursuing her skilled grasp’s in UF’s College of Journalism and Communications, incomes a 4.0 GPA within the 2021-22 educational yr.
Clapper anticipated the beginning of NIL, working to develop her model. She launched the first-ever gymnastics board game Balance Palace. Her ball challenge video went viral and she hosts a podcast. Her capstone undertaking, NIL Island, is a lately launched website to supply student-athletes a spot to debate NIL experiences and struggles. She’ll take part in leading discussions of student-athletes regarding the future of collegiate athletics at the NIL Summit.
??♀️ @MeganSkaggs_ receives the two⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣
Athlete Advocate of the Year!Congrats to our ?? winners!#GoGators
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— Gators Gymnastics (@GatorsHealth club) June 14, 2022
Megan Skaggs: Athlete Advocate of the Year
Skaggs acquired the Athlete Advocate of the Year. Her closing season with the Gators was spectacular, becoming a member of teammate Trinity Thomas as the one opponents at the 2022 NCAA Championships to say the utmost of 5 All-America honors. Skaggs earned her third All-SEC honor in her Super Senior yr. A four-time WCGA Scholastic All-American, she joined Clapper on the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America first group. She graduated summa cum laude in August of 2020 along with her bachelor’s diploma in Advertising and accomplished her grasp’s diploma in Entrepreneurship in April of 2022.
Heading into her closing season, Skaggs sought to pair efficiency with objective. She used her go-to competitors coiffure, double braids and two tiny bows, because the identification for her charitable program. Skaggs’ Tiny Bow Project benefited 10 causes in the 2022 regular season.
About Student Athlete NIL
Student Athlete NIL (SANIL) is a full-service company of report devoted to serving to manufacturers, universities, and student-athletes navigate the brand new period of Name, Image and Likeness. SANIL leverages a long time of expertise in collegiate sports activities administration and advertising and marketing, alongside a second-to-none understanding of the regulatory atmosphere, to make sure its companions and purchasers are outfitted with the data, information and insights essential to take full benefit of the best arbitrage alternative in advertising and marketing historical past. The company was based in 2020 by business leaders Jason Belzer, Vince Thompson, and Matt Roberts.
About INFLCR
INFLCR, a Teamworks firm, is the main content material and compliance platform for elite athletic packages, educating and getting ready employees and athletes for the NIL period, all powered by best-in-class content material supply through cell app. INFLCR works with greater than 3,500 collegiate and skilled sports activities groups with a community of over 70,000 lively athlete customers. With revolutionary new merchandise just like the Compliance Exchange, Storyteller Playbook, and administrator dashboard, INFLCR enhances the athlete expertise with a complete resolution for accountable brand-building on social media, in addition to a totally compliant path to exterior industrial exercise from NIL.
About The College Football Hall Of Fame
The Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame is a 94,256 square-foot interactive expertise positioned within the coronary heart of Atlanta’s sports activities, leisure, and tourism district. Adjacent to the Georgia World Congress Center and Centennial Olympic Park, the Hall offers guests with a extremely immersive and participating expertise utilizing a mix of historic school soccer artifacts and state-of-the-art multimedia displays. The National Football Foundation (NFF) established the Hall in 1951 to face as one of many nation’s premier sports activities shrines, immortalizing the sport’s best gamers and coaches as optimistic function fashions for future generations. Atlanta Hall Management, Inc., companions with the NFF to function the Hall of Fame expertise, which offers a platform for neighborhood outreach, training, and character improvement initiatives; and serves as certainly one of Atlanta’s premier particular occasion areas.