Greencastle, Ind.- Sophie Porter (Westfield, Ind./Wesfield) a 2025 graduate and a member of the DePauw women's cross country and track and field teams, has been selected as the 2025 Amy Hasbrook Award recipient, which recognizes the top senior student-athlete competing on a DePauw women's team. Porter is also DePauw's nominee for the North Coast Athletic Conference's Pam Smith Award and the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
The Hasbrook Award is presented annually to a senior student-athlete from a women's sport who best exemplifies effort and excellence in academics, athletics, leadership, integrity, dedication to the team, campus involvement, and community service.
A neuroscience and biochemistry double major, Porter graduated summa cum laude. She earned
second team all-America honors in May after finishing 15th in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 2024 she doubled up on all-America accolades with an 11th-place showing in the 10,000 meters and a 13th-place finish in the 5,000 meters. Porter also competed in the 2023 and 2024 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, finish 53rd and 56th, respectively. Her sixth-place finish at the 2024 Division III Cross Country Great Lakes Regional helped the Tigers to the first regional title in program history. She was 12th at the 2023 regional meet.
Porter, a 2024 Academic All-America® honoree, earned the NCAC's Mid-Distance Athlete of the Year Award for outdoors in 2024 and 2025 and indoors in 2025. She accumulated 13 all-NCAC honors in track and field including 11 individual championships. Porter was a four-time all-NCAC honoree in cross country and finished second at the conference meet in 2024 and fourth in 2023. She graduated as DePauw's program record holder in the indoor 3,000-meter run and three outdoor events (3,000; 5,000; 10,000). Porter helped lead the Tigers to their first NCAC titles in women's cross country, women's indoor track and field and women's outdoor track and field with each coming during the 2024-25 academic year.
Porter was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Alpha Sigma and earned the Senior Thesis Seminar Award from the department of psychology and neuroscience. She was a research assistant for Dr. Richard Matoglio and Dr. Henning Schneider and presented research at multiple symposiums. Porter also held leadership positions in the Alpha Phi sorority.
Other finalists for this year's Hasbrook Award included Sydney Calisto (women's soccer), Bridget Driscoll (women's lacrosse), Mia Hagenauer (women's swimming and diving), Ava Hassel (women's basketball), Olivia Karwin (volleyball), Ashley Long (women's golf), Katie Mathies (softball) and Alexandra May (field hockey).
Jonathan Bruder of the football team was named recipient of the Phil Eskew Award as the top senior student-athlete from a men's sport. 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" Association for over 20 years, was a
1994 inductee into the DePauw Athletics Hall of Fame and was instrumental in its formation in 1986.
| Year |
Eskew Outstanding Male Student-Athlete Award |
Hasbrook Outstanding Female Student-Athlete Award |
| 2005 |
JaMarcus Shephard (football and track & field) |
Amy Artgetsinger (basketball) |
| 2006 |
PJ Mitchell (baseball) |
Leslie Dillon (cross country and track & field) |
| 2007 |
Evan Webeler (tennis) |
Liz Bondi (tennis and basketball)
Sarah Gates (golf) |
| 2008 |
Robert Alexander (swimming & diving) |
Katie Doogan (swimming & diving) |
| 2009 |
Michael McNelis (football) |
Amanda Stier (swimming & diving) |
| 2010 |
John Cook (swimming & diving)
Spud Dick (football) |
Lauren Reich (cross country and track & field)
Megan Soultz (softball) |
| 2011 |
Jonathan Lambert (football) |
Courtney Lauer (track & field) |
| 2012 |
Kreigh Kamman (soccer) |
Catie Baker (swimming & diving) |
| 2013 |
Matt Kukurugya (swimming & diving) |
Bridgette Shamleffer (field hockey)
Kate Walker (basketball) |
| 2014 |
Jack Burgeson (swimming & diving) |
Paige Gooch (golf) |
| 2015 |
Alex Alfonso (swimming & diving) |
Maggie MacPhail (tennis) |
| 2016 |
Marcus Dozier (track & field)
Alex Grissom (swimming & diving) |
Caroline Zadina (soccer) |
| 2017 |
Julian Gonzalez (soccer)
Matt Hunt (football) |
Annie Graves (swimming & diving) |
| 2018 |
Polo Burguete (cross country/track & field
Sam McManus (swimming & diving) |
Emma Baldwin (softball) |
| 2019 |
Paul Christian (cross country/track & field |
Suzanne Peters (volleyball)
Larisa Luloff (golf) |
| 2020 |
Jay Klein (soccer) |
Anna Foley (golf)
Sydney Kopp (basketball) |
| 2021 |
Nolan Ginther (basketball) |
Becca St. Germain (softball) |
| 2022 |
Kyle Callahan (baseball) |
Cami Henry (softball)
Erin Pasch (track and field) |
| 2023 |
Elijah Hales (basketball) |
Seelye Stoffregen (track and field) |
| 2024 |
Robbie Sheffield (swimming and diving) |
Annalise Grammel (soccer and track and field) |
| 2025 |
Jonathan Bruder (football) |
Sophie Porter (cross country and track and field) |
