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Jalen Travis Named Recipient Of 2024 Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup
March 08, 2024 | Football
About The Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup
Senior Jalen Travis, a two-time All-Ivy selection as an offensive lineman for Princeton's football team, has been named the male collegiate recipient of the 2024 Athletes For A Better World Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup.
The Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is presented to six distinguished athletes from any sport – male/female high school, male/female intercollegiate, and male/female professional – who best display character, teamwork, and citizenship, the attributes Athletes for a Better World deems central to transforming individuals, sport, and society. The award establishes the recipients as athletes of excellence both on and off the field, role models both as performers and persons, the most important and distinctive honor athletes can achieve.
The award, named in honor of legendary college basketball coach John Wooden, was first presented in 2005. Travis is the fourth Ivy Leaguer and first Princetonian to receive this award.
"Receiving the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is truly a dream come true." said Travis. "To be recognized as embodying the legacy of one of the greatest leaders sports have ever seen, I am extremely humbled. Thank you to Athletes for a Better World for this incredible honor and your dedication to recognizing and supporting athletes who are using their platforms to leave a positive impact on this world."
The award will be presented in a ceremony to be held on April 25 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. Details of the event will be announced at a later time.
I have the utmost respect for John Wooden as a leader of young men and champion of what is right in sports and in society. To have the opportunity celebrate Jalen Travis for receiving this award with Coach Wooden's name on it is special," said Princeton head coach Bob Surace. "The class with which Jalen carries himself and the pride he takes in lifting up those around him – whether it is those feeling prejudice in his home town, his fellow student-athletes in need, or a group of pre-teens from Trenton who just want to see that someone who looks like them can achieve, serve and lead at a place like Princeton – Jalen is truly a man for others who embodies Princeton's own motto of 'In the nation's service and the service of humanity' on a daily basis."
Travis forged that path by founding the nonprofit The Just Action Coalition, which aimed at promoting substantive youth engagement in policy-level advocacy on the local and state levels in Minnesota. Since then, he has interned in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and he was a 2022 recipient of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellowship in Government Service. Travis is co-director of Minority Pre-Law Association, a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader and a member of the Student-Athlete Service Council. He is also a liaison for Princeton's Advocacy and Activism Student Board at the John H. Pace, Jr. '39 Center for Civic Engagement and an advisory board member for the
Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).
In April, Jalen was one of 62 students from around the country awarded a Truman Scholarship which provides funding for graduate school along with professional development opportunities to prepare for careers in public service.
Senior Jalen Travis, a two-time All-Ivy selection as an offensive lineman for Princeton's football team, has been named the male collegiate recipient of the 2024 Athletes For A Better World Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup.
The Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is presented to six distinguished athletes from any sport – male/female high school, male/female intercollegiate, and male/female professional – who best display character, teamwork, and citizenship, the attributes Athletes for a Better World deems central to transforming individuals, sport, and society. The award establishes the recipients as athletes of excellence both on and off the field, role models both as performers and persons, the most important and distinctive honor athletes can achieve.
The award, named in honor of legendary college basketball coach John Wooden, was first presented in 2005. Travis is the fourth Ivy Leaguer and first Princetonian to receive this award.
"Receiving the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is truly a dream come true." said Travis. "To be recognized as embodying the legacy of one of the greatest leaders sports have ever seen, I am extremely humbled. Thank you to Athletes for a Better World for this incredible honor and your dedication to recognizing and supporting athletes who are using their platforms to leave a positive impact on this world."
The award will be presented in a ceremony to be held on April 25 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. Details of the event will be announced at a later time.
I have the utmost respect for John Wooden as a leader of young men and champion of what is right in sports and in society. To have the opportunity celebrate Jalen Travis for receiving this award with Coach Wooden's name on it is special," said Princeton head coach Bob Surace. "The class with which Jalen carries himself and the pride he takes in lifting up those around him – whether it is those feeling prejudice in his home town, his fellow student-athletes in need, or a group of pre-teens from Trenton who just want to see that someone who looks like them can achieve, serve and lead at a place like Princeton – Jalen is truly a man for others who embodies Princeton's own motto of 'In the nation's service and the service of humanity' on a daily basis."
Travis forged that path by founding the nonprofit The Just Action Coalition, which aimed at promoting substantive youth engagement in policy-level advocacy on the local and state levels in Minnesota. Since then, he has interned in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and he was a 2022 recipient of the Leonard D. Schaeffer Fellowship in Government Service. Travis is co-director of Minority Pre-Law Association, a Student-Athlete Wellness Leader and a member of the Student-Athlete Service Council. He is also a liaison for Princeton's Advocacy and Activism Student Board at the John H. Pace, Jr. '39 Center for Civic Engagement and an advisory board member for the
Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES).
In April, Jalen was one of 62 students from around the country awarded a Truman Scholarship which provides funding for graduate school along with professional development opportunities to prepare for careers in public service.
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