Scholarship Recipients

2022 Student Recipients

Top row (left to right): Taylor Lougheed, Nathaniel Brewer, Irelynne Jack, Kathleen Steele, Evan Robinson
Middle row (left to right): Luke Robert, Matthew Welsh, Ryan Maxwell, Taylor Quayle, Andrew Peverill
Bottom row (left to right): Duncan Patterson, Calla Quist, Kyle Barbour, Lydia Ramsay, Mary Henderson

Congratulations to the new Sobey National Innovators and Sobey MBA Scholars!

Saint Mary’s University and the Sobey School of Business are proud to announce the newest recipients of the 2022 Sobey National Innovators and Sobey MBA Scholarships. 

The Sobey National Innovator and Sobey MBA Scholarships are presented to exceptional students from across Canada in recognition of their accomplishments, and as encouragement and support for their success at Saint Mary’s Sobey School of Business. This scholarship program will support 150 students over a ten-year period, inspiring the best and brightest graduate and undergraduate business students in the country to come to Saint Mary’s University and the Sobey School of Business. 

The following is a list of the 2022 Sobey National Innovators: 

  • Kyle Barbour 
  • Nathaniel Brewer
  • Mary Henderson
  • Irelynne Jack
  • Taylor Lougheed
  • Calla Quist
  • Lydia Ramsay
  • Luke Robert
  • Evan Robinson
  • Kathleen Steele


Sobey MBA Scholarship recipients

The following is a list of the 2022 Sobey MBA Scholars: 

  • Ryan Maxwell
  • Taylor Quayle
  • Duncan Patterson
  • Andrew Peverill BComm’22 
  • Matthew Welsh BComm’22

These students join other recipients as members of the Sobey Scholars Network, a special cohort that includes all current and past students, alumni, Chair holders, named Professors and Post-Doctoral Fellows who have been the recipients of philanthropic financial support from the Sobey Family, The Sobey Foundation, Sobeys Inc., and Empire Company Limited. 

Sobeys Leadership Award recipients

Since 2006, the Sobeys Leadership Awards have been supported by the Sobeys Scholarship
Endowment Fund. Five new renewable awards of $4,000 each are distributed annually. If all
returning students meet the award criteria, this could result in 20 awards of $4,000, or $80,000
in total, distributed in a single year. These awards recognize full-time undergraduate students
enrolled in the Sobey School of Business who demonstrate community service leadership,
financial need and satisfactory academic achievement.

Congratulations to our new and returning Sobeys Leadership Award recipients:

  • Cassy Hickey Court 2022-23
  • Benjamin King 2022-23
  • Lenssa Samuel 2022-23
  • Olivia Symes 2022-23
  • Samantha Young 2022-23
  • Rebecca Hill 2021-23
  • Mark Samaan 2021-23
  • Matthew Hill 2020-2023
  • Matthew Hugh 2020-2023
  • David Song 2020-2023
  • Nhu Gia Trinh 2020-2023
  • Matthew Delano 2019-2023
  • Alina Franzman 2019-2023
  • Jonah MacEachern 2019-23
  • Ashlyn Mitchell 2019-2023





Sobeys Scholar Award recipients

Established in 2007 and supported by the Sobeys Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Sobeys
Scholar Award gives $25,000 to a first-year student to cover all fees related to enrolment as a
full-time commerce student living in residence. Recipients qualify for renewed scholarships
from Saint Mary’s valued this year at $7,000 for each of their second, third and fourth years of
their degrees. Awarded to a graduating high school student from Canada enrolled as a full-time
undergraduate in the Sobey School of Business, recipients demonstrate superior academic
achievement (at least 90% average) and leadership in community service.

Recipients who maintain a GPA of at least 3.0 and remain at the Sobey School of Business may apply to work as summer interns for Sobeys Inc. during the three summers of their undergraduate degrees.

Congratulations to our new and returning Sobeys Scholar Award recipients:

  • Sara Williams 2022-2023
  • Danyka McDonald 2021-2022
  • Teagan Scott 2020-2021
  • Alex Arnold 2019-2020
  • Kelly MacInnis 2018-2019 

 

Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies Recipient

The Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies is a scholarship program administered by The Sobey Foundation in which Saint Mary's has the opportunity to endorse one applicant from the Sobey School of Business each year. This scholarship is open to all business students in Atlantic Canada.

2022-2023 Recipients
Two members of the Sobey Scholars Network, third-year finance and economics major Hallie Wedge and second-year finance and accounting major Sandy Hiltz are two of only eight undergraduate students from across Atlantic Canada to win this year’s Frank H. Sobey  for Excellence in Business Studies. Hallie and Sandy were also recipients of the Sobey National Innovator Scholarship. Read their full story . 

2021-2022 Recipient

2020-2021 Recipient


Learn more about the Frank H. Sobey Awards for Excellence in Business Studies .