Retired men’s basketball head coach Rick Byrd is the 2022 recipient of the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award. Leading his Bruins to 713 wins and eight NCAA tournament appearances during his 1986-2019 tenure, Byrd collects the ultimate honor in collegiate coaching, presented to him Tuesday by the Los Angeles Athletic Club. “I am overwhelmed and grateful to be named the recipient of the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award for 2022,” Byrd said in an article for Belmo

The National Association of Black Journalists officially honored Belmont professor Dr. Sybril Bennett as its 2015 Journalism Educator of the Year Wednesday. Bennett received the award in recognition of her “service, commitment and academic guidance,” including her nomination as a finalist for Belmont’s highest teaching honor–the Virginia Chaney Teaching Award–in 2012, and her role as the National Convention program chair in Philadelphia in 2011. She also received the NABJ Reg