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Laura Ormson Named a Wake Forest Hobbs Award Winner
4/30/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
April 30, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest women's golf junior Laura Ormson has been selected as one of three winners of the Wake Forest Hobbs Award for Entrepreneurial Achievement for Student and Faculty Entrepreneurs.
Ormson was selected as one of two student winners from a group of 11. Her venture is called Wear to Win.
As a young golfer and member of the women's golf team, Ormson has taken her insight into the world of the young female golfer and used it to create her company. Wear to Win is a web-based commercial venture that provides unique, fashionable clothing designs and accessories for the teenaged female golfer. The website also provides information and tips from current top-level junior and college-aged golfers. Wear to Win's trademarked slogan and mission is "Inspiring golfwear for aspiring young women."
In 2007, Russ Hobbs, 1988 Wake Forest graduate and founder of Blue Ocean Software, announced a $1 million endowment gift to create the Russell D. and Elfriede Hobbs Fund for Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts, established in honor of his parents. This was the first major endowment gift for the Wake Forest University Office of Entrepreneurship and Liberal Arts.
In addition to providing seed grants, internships, and other support for undergraduate students, the endowment funds a major prize, the Hobbs Award for Entrepreneurial Achievement for Student and Faculty Entrepreneurs. Winners received $2,500. Dr. Betsy Gatewood, Director of the entrepreneurship program, was joined by Russ Hobbs and his parents to distribute the awards at the annual Excellence in Entrepreneurship Awards Banquet on April 16. For this inaugural year, the Hobbs Award Committee had the difficult challenge of choosing three winners from many outstanding applicants.
Ormson's website, www.weartowin.com, is set to launch June 2.
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