Backes Earns CUSA Winter Spirit of Service Award
3/28/2025 1:17:00 PM | Track and Field
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Thanks to his dedication to community service, Liberty's Beau Backes earned a CUSA Winter Spirit of Service Award on Friday.
The award honors student-athletes with significant community service endeavors, good academic standing and participation in their sport. The Spirit of Service Award is presented three times throughout the season, with Friday's honorees representing track & field and basketball. Recipients are nominated by their institutions.
Backes is very active within the Lynchburg community, volunteering regularly at the Runk and Pratt Assisted Living Home to play bingo with the residents. He also participates in a Pen Pal Program, writing letters back and forth with a resident.
Backes reads in elementary schools weekly at the Learn Like Liberty Program and is a group leader for hosting the Aspire Class for Sports Clinics, a class of adults with special needs and disabilities. He also attended the Hop on Pop reading event and the North Pole Disability Outreach Day.
A two-time member of the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, Backes boasts a 3.56 GPA in biology education. In competition, Backes placed fourth in the men's shot put at the 2025 CUSA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a personal-best 54-0 effort.
The award honors student-athletes with significant community service endeavors, good academic standing and participation in their sport. The Spirit of Service Award is presented three times throughout the season, with Friday's honorees representing track & field and basketball. Recipients are nominated by their institutions.
Backes is very active within the Lynchburg community, volunteering regularly at the Runk and Pratt Assisted Living Home to play bingo with the residents. He also participates in a Pen Pal Program, writing letters back and forth with a resident.
Backes reads in elementary schools weekly at the Learn Like Liberty Program and is a group leader for hosting the Aspire Class for Sports Clinics, a class of adults with special needs and disabilities. He also attended the Hop on Pop reading event and the North Pole Disability Outreach Day.
A two-time member of the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, Backes boasts a 3.56 GPA in biology education. In competition, Backes placed fourth in the men's shot put at the 2025 CUSA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a personal-best 54-0 effort.
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