2024

Meet the 2024 Student Recipients

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 2024 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 2024 Sobey National Innovators:

Isaac Benne
Amelie Blanton
Alana Butt
Sarah Fillmore
Grace Ford-Smuck
Duncan Giles
Aliyanna Gordon
Brady Kyle
Diego Ramos
Avery Walker

Sobey MBA Scholarship recipients

The following is a list of the 2024 Sobey MBA Scholars:

Sophia Blanchard
Mia Carey
Taylor Davies
Chad Enwright
Ellie Fisher
Madison Ganong
Joshua Wainman

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:

Tina Rachel Chandra 2024-25
Adele Green 2024-25
Leah LeBlanc 2024-25
Xavier Patterson 2024-25
Owen Robichaud Hurley 2024-25
Oliver Gavel 2023-24
Seamus MacDonald 2023-24
Briar Purcell 2023-24
James Ryan 2023-24
Jayreece Whiley 2023-24
Benjamin King 2022-23
Rebbeca Hill 2021-23
Mark Samaan 2021-23

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 University 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.

2023-2024 Recipient

Madeline Bristol has been named one of only eight undergraduate students from across Atlantic Canada to be awarded the Frank H. Sobey Award for Excellence in Business Studies for the 2023-2024 year. Madeline received the award during her final year of study and recently graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's.