TAMPA -- Four outstanding Muma College of Business students were recognized with the Golden Bull Award, one of the highest honors given to University of South Florida students who epitomize the spirit of USF and have excelled in academics, leadership, and service to USF and the community.
The 2022 Golden Bull Award recipients from the Muma College of Business included Carter Bedinghaus, Junayed “JJ” Jahangir, Spencer McCloskey, and Sean Schrader.
All four are also honorees of the college’s 25 Under 25 award recognition program. McCloskey was a 2021 honoree, while Bedinghaus, Jahangir, and Schrader are members of this year’s class of recipients.
The Golden Bull award is presented by USF’s Student Success unit each spring to deserving undergraduate and graduate students who shown the spirit of USF and have demonstrated its values. For 2022, 26 deserving Bulls received the award.
Carter Bedinghaus
Bedinghaus is studying marketing on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus. His hometown is Bradenton, Florida.
During his time at USF, he has demonstrated leadership, dedication, teamwork, and bull pride. He served four terms in student government. As a sophomore, he was elected president of the Student Government Senate. In this role, he oversaw 15 senators and managed the group’s distribution of $1.5 million in allocations to student organizations. While he was president, turnover amongst student leaders dropped to zero.
As a USF Ambassador, he volunteered in his community by reading to elementary school students, working directly with the USF President, and advocating for the university at the Florida Capitol.
Bedinghaus is a member of the 2022 Muma College of Business 25 Under 25 Roster. This program aims to highlight the positive impact students have on campus as well as in the regional community.
He will graduate from USF in May and will begin his tenure as a student in the LECOM School of Dental Medicine in the fall.
Junayed “JJ” Jahangir
Jahangir is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. He is also a member of the 2022 Muma College of Business 25 Under 25 class. His home country is Bangladesh.
He is currently the student senate president of USF Student Senate, the legislative branch of Student Government. This branch consists of over 80 elected officials across all three campuses that advocate on behalf of students and oversee an allocation of over $21 million dollars every year.
His prior service includes roles as vice-president of the International Student Association, USF ambassador, residential assistant, and finance chair for Student Government.
One of his big accomplishments was a fundraising campaign with the Office of International Student Services that provided urgent financial support to over 50 international students in financial need during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
He is recently completed the Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s Collegiate Leadership Program, has interned with the Fortune 100 company, TechData, and is currently developing his own business with the USF Student Incubator program. This summer, he will intern as a consultant for Ernst & Young.
Spencer McCloskey
McCloskey is pursing a Bachelor of Science in Business Analytics and Information Systems with a concentration in Cybersecurity. His hometown is Ramstein Air Base, Germany. At USF, he has demonstrated servant leadership, academic achievement, and love for his university.
Over his four-year USF journey, he has served in various roles in Student Government from finance committee chairman to a first Tampa campus governor in the consolidated university. As Tampa governor, he was appointed as campus allocation funding committee chairman and led the committee in allocating over $17 million during the tumultuous financial time of COVID-19. In this service, he was presented with the Judy Walker award, which is given to the person who made a tremendous impact.
In the summer of 2021, he participated in an internship with the United States Special Operations Command, a partnership with the USF Institute of Applied Engineering, combining his interest in military and technology.
In the fall of 2019, he was inducted into the prestigious Order of the Golden Brahman. In the spring of 2021, he was named a Muma College of Business 25 Under 25 for his achievements in leadership and academics.
A member of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps since his early days at the university, he will continue his military career by commissioning as a Second Lieutenant on May 13 and will be reporting to Naval Air Station Pensacola to begin aviation training.
Sean Schrader
Schrader is a senior studying business management. After graduation this spring, he will pursue his MBA from USF starting in the fall. His hometown is Clearwater, Florida. During his time at USF, he has demonstrated a willingness to better the university, and the Tampa Bay community.
At USF, he has served as a senator in the student government where he has worked to increase student engagement in local government.
This past fall, he served as a fellow in the Millennium Fellowship, a program created in collaboration with the United Nations to support student projects which address sustainable development goals.
In the community, he has been selected by the Clearwater City Council to help serve the city in various capacities. In 2019, he served as a member of the Clearwater Charter Review Committee. In 2021, he was appointed as the Clearwater At-Large Representative on the St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport Noise Abatement Task Force. In this role, he works with representatives from other municipalities in the airport’s flight path to ensure noise abatement procedures are being followed.
While at USF, he has worked in the office of Congressman Charlie Crist, serving as an intern, assistant constituent advocate, and now as office manager in the congressman’s district office.
In his recommendation, Crist wrote, “Sean has worked hard to make the community and the lives of others better. Since the Golden Bull Award was created to recognize those individuals who have gone above and beyond to help others in service of Florida’s 13th Congressional District, I am confident that Sean embodies the qualities of this award.”