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Daniel winners

2025 Daniel Recipient

Geoff Rinehart
University of Maryland

Geoff Rinehart bio coming.

Dr. William H. Daniel Award Winners

YearAward Winner
2025Geoff Rinehart, University of Maryland
2024Brad Park, Rutgers University
2023Kristen Althouse, PA Turfgrass Council
2022Dr. Cale Bigelow, Purdue University
2021Dr. Nick Christians, Iowa State University
2020Bradley Jakubowski, Instructor of Plant Sciences, Penn State
2019Victoria Wallace, University of Connecticut
2018Pam Sherratt, Ohio State University (OH)
2017James Brosnan, Ph.D., University of Tennessee (TN)
2016Jason Kruse, Ph.D., University of Florida (KY)
2015Mary Owens, University of Massachusetts (MA)
2014Brian Scott, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut (CA)
2013Dr. Brad Fresenburg, University of Missouri-Columbia (MO)
2012Dr. Beth Guertal, Auburn University (AL)
2011Dr. Leah Brilman, Seed Research of Oregon (OR)
2010John Sorochan, Ph.D., University of Tennessee (TN)
2009Tony Koski, Ph.D., Colorado State University (CO)
2008Grady Miller, Ph.D., North Carolina State University (NC)
2007Michael Goatley, Jr., Ph.D., Turfgrass Specialist, Virginia Tech University (VA)
2006James McAfee, Ph.D., Extension Turfgrass Specialist, Texas A&M (TX)
2005Jeff Fowler, Penn State Cooperative Extension (PA)
2004A.J. Powell, Jr., Ph.D., University of Kentucky (KY)
2003Pam Sherratt, Ohio State University (OH)
2002Eric Adkins, CSFM, Michigan State University (MI)
2001Coleman Ward, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Auburn University (AL)
2000Andrew McNitt, Ph.D., Penn State University (PA)
1999Donald Waddington, Ph.D., Penn State University (PA)
1998Steve Cockerham, University of California/Riverside (CA)
1997James Beard, Ph.D., International Sports Turf Institute (TX)
1996Kent Kurtz, Ph.D., (deceased) Cal Poly Pomona (CA)
1994Dave Minner, Ph.D., Iowa State University (IA)
1993John N. “Trey” Rogers, III, Ph.D., Michigan State University (MI)
1992Henry Wilkinson, Ph.D., University of Illinois (IL)
1991Steve Cockerham, University of California/Riverside (CA)

(Note: The William H. Daniel Award was known as the Excellence in Research Award prior to 1997.)

* Facility listed is where employed at time of award. Check Roster for current listing