Greencastle, Ind. - Jonathan Bruder (Centerville, Ohio/Centerville), a 2025 DePauw graduate and member of the Tigers' football team, has been selected as the 2025 Phil Eskew Award recipient as DePauw's top senior male student-athlete. Bruder is also DePauw's nominee for the North Coast Athletic Conference's Don Hunsinger Award.
The Eskew Award is presented each year to a senior male student-athlete who best exemplifies effort and excellence in academics, athletics, leadership, integrity, dedication to the team, campus involvement and community service.
A biochemistry major, Bruder graduated summa cum laude. He earned
Academic All-America® honors, was an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient and named a
fourth team D3football.com all-America selection. Bruder was voted the 2024 North Coast Athletic Conference's Hank Critchfield Award recipient as the league's defensive player of the year. He led the Tigers with 79 tackles including 1.5 sacks for six yards and 6.0 tackles for losses totaling 16 yards. Bruder had two interceptions including one against Denison that he returned 70 yards for a touchdown. Bruder was a first team all-NCAC selection in 2024 and 2023 and second team in 2022.
A Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Alpha Sigma inductee, Bruder was a semifinalist for the National Football Foundation's William Campbell Award. During his time at DePauw, Bruder also conducted biochemistry research with Dr. Richard Martoglio.
Other finalists for this year's Eskew Award include Brock Kinnamon (men's swimming and diving), Carter Knoll (baseball), Kyle Lillwitz (men's basketball), Manuel Loring Campos (men's golf), Alec McCarty (men's soccer), Colin O'Malley (men's track and field) and Samuele Pia (men's tennis).
Sophie Porter of the women's cross country and track and field teams was selected as the Amy Hasbrook Award recipient as the top senior female student-athlete. Complete information on that is available
here.
The awards are named for former DePauw student-athletes Amy Hasbrook '00 and Phil Eskew Jr. '63. Hasbrook was a four-year letterwinner for the women's basketball team and a
2019 DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame inductee who lost her life in a fire in 2002. Eskew, the president of DePauw's "D" Associationtoglio.for over 20 years, was a
1994 inductee into the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame and was instrumental in its formation in 1986.
| Amy Hasbrook Award Winners |
Phil Eskew Award Winners |
| 2005 |
Amy Argetsinger, basketball |
2005 |
JaMarcus Shephard, football/track and field |
| 2006 |
Leslie Dillon, cross country/track and field |
2006 |
P.J. Mitchell, baseball |
| 2007 |
Liz Bondi, basketball/tennis |
2007 |
Evan Webeler, tennis |
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Sarah Gates, golf |
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| 2008 |
Katie Doogan, swimming and diving |
2008 |
Rob Alexander, swimming and diving |
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Jeremiah Marks, football |
| 2009 |
Amanda Stier, swimming and diving |
2009 |
Michael McNelis, football |
| 2010 |
Lauren Reich, cross country/track and field |
2010 |
John Cook, swimming and diving |
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Megan Soultz, softball |
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Spud Dick, football |
| 2011 |
Courtney Lauer, track and field |
2011 |
Jonathan Lambert, football |
| 2012 |
Catie Baker, swimming and diving |
2012 |
Kreigh Kamman, soccer |
| 2013 |
Bridgette Shamleffer, field hockey |
2013 |
Matt Kukurugya, swimming and diving |
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Kate Walker, basketball |
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| 2014 |
Paige Gooch, golf |
2014 |
Jack Burgeson, swimming and diving |
| 2015 |
Maggie MacPhail, tennis |
2015 |
Alex Alfonso, swimming and diving |
| 2016 |
Caroline Zadina, soccer |
2016 |
Marcus Dozier, track and field |
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Alex Grissom, swimming and diving |
| 2017 |
Annie Graves, swimming and diving |
2017 |
Julian Gonzalez, soccer |
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Matt Hunt, football |
| 2018 |
Emma Baldwin, softball |
2018 |
Polo Burguete, cross country/track and field |
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Sam McManus, swimming and diving |
| 2019 |
Larisa Luloff, golf |
2019 |
Paul Christian, cross country/track and field |
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Suzanne Peters, volleyball |
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| 2020 |
Anna Foley, golf |
2020 |
Jay Klein, soccer |
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Sydney Kopp, basketball |
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| 2021 |
Becca St. Germain, softball |
2021 |
Nolan Ginther, basketball |
| 2022 |
Cami Henry, softball |
2022 |
Kyle Callahan, baseball |
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Erin Pasch, track and field |
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| 2023 |
Seelye Stoffregen, track and field |
2023 |
Elijah Hales, basketball |
| 2024 |
Annalise Grammel, soccer/ track and field |
2024 |
Robbie Sheffield, swimming and diving |
| 2025 |
Sophie Porter, cross country/track and field |
2025 |
Jonathan Bruder, football |
