| 2023 | | |
| 2022 | Mashoukur Rahaman | Univ. of Florida |
| 2020 | Reagan Yessler | Univ. of Tennessee – Knoxville |
| 2019 | Nabeela Farhat | Univ. of North Carolina – Greensboro |
| 2018 | Tyler J. Mitchell | Univ. of North Carolina Greensboro |
| 2017 | Montana A. Eck | Appalachian State Univ. |
| 2016 | Keith E. Watkins | Univ. of North Carolina – Greensboro |
| 2015 | Helen Rosko | Univ. of Tennessee |
| 2014 | Maegen Rochner | Univ. of Tennessee |
| 2013 | Thomas Patterson | Univ. of North Carolina – Greensboro |
| 2012 | Linwood E. Hall | East Carolina Univ. |
| 2010 | Lixin Wang | Univ. of Georgia |
| 2009 | Chris Kaase | Appalachian State Univ. |
| Ginette Wessel | Univ. of North Carolina – Charlotte |
| 2008 | Katherine Renken | East Carolina Univ. |
| 2007 | Terri Moreau | East Carolina Univ. |
| 2006 | Sallie Vaughn | East Carolina Univ. |
| 2005 | Sarah Schwartz | Univ. of South Carolina |
| 2004 | Danny Redo | Univ. of Southern Mississippi |
| 2003 | W. Jefferson West II | Univ. of Kentucky |
| 2002 | Scott Markwith | Univ. of Georgia |
