{"id":92305,"date":"2023-02-20T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=92305"},"modified":"2023-02-21T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T16:17:36","slug":"dsu-senior-finalist-for-young-bankers-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2023\/02\/dsu-senior-finalist-for-young-bankers-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"DSU Senior Finalist for Young Bankers Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CLEVELAND, Miss. \u2014<\/strong> The Mississippi Young Banker\u2019s Association has selected Keshawn Jennings, a senior finance major in the College of Business and Aviation at Delta State University as a finalist for the Orrin Swayze Scholarship Awards. Five scholarship finalists from Mississippi universities are invited to the Mississippi Young Banker&#8217;s Convention in Point Clear, Ala., in March each year. One finalist will receive the Swayze Medallion and a $5,000 scholarship; all finalists will receive a $1,500 scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Jennings, a senior from Marietta, Ga., came to Delta State as a freshman to play football. During his time at DSU, Jennings was named to the Dean\u2019s List from 2020-2022, was selected as team captain in 2022 and garnered honors for All-Gulf South Conference First Team in 2022 and All-GSC Second Team in 2021. The four-year starter works on campus in the Student Success Center, assisting students who need academic support. He also worked as a cashier at Kroger for four years and is an active volunteer on campus and in the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeshawn is a leader,\u201d said DSU Head Football Coach Todd Cooley. \u201cHe is a bright young man who always handles himself with class. He is deserving of this award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship awards are presented to outstanding college seniors studying banking and finance at state-supported universities in Mississippi. The Swayze Awards recognize students who exemplify the high academic standards and character of Orrin H. Swayze, a widely respected Mississippi Banker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND, Miss. \u2014 The Mississippi Young Banker\u2019s Association has selected Keshawn Jennings, a senior finance major in the College of Business and Aviation at Delta State University as a finalist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":555,"featured_media":92306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","category-college-of-business-and-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92346,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92305\/revisions\/92346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}