MEDIA, Pa. — Penn State Brandywine students who have impacted the campus through their service and leadership were honored at an awards banquet on April 21. The annual leadership banquet celebrates the achievements of students who are involved with clubs, student government and campus programs.
Karly Rees, a fourth-year business major, received the Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award. This award recognizes a student whose outstanding qualities of character, scholarship, leadership and citizenship have been directed into programs and services that have positively influenced fellow students and have contributed to the prestige and well-being of their campus and the University as a whole.
Rees has been involved with Brandywine athletics since her first year at Brandywine in 2021 as a catcher on the softball team. She also served as president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council and was a peer mentor for first-year seminar courses.
One of her nominators wrote: “Karly is a student that you don’t come across often. She is extremely intelligent, responsible and hardworking. Karly’s list of achievements during her time here at Penn State Brandywine is astonishing. However, it is not the accolades that define her. From the moment Karly stepped foot on campus, she has been a step ahead of her peers. She is graduating in May and has already secured a job at a top-four accounting firm in the country. She is the best representative of a student we have at Penn State Brandywine, and I am so proud to have had her represent Brandywine athletics these last few years.”