Hoosier Energy announces first two scholarship winners of 2025

Mentors make a difference.

 

They certainly did for the first two 2025 recipients of the W. Eugene Roberts and Daniel L. Schuckman Memorial Scholarships from Hoosier Energy. The scholarship total is being expanded this year with Hoosier Energy anticipating awarding two scholarships each semester to attendees at the North American Lineman Training Center in McEwen, Tennessee.

 

Blayden Mann and Brett Wilson, who graduated from NALTC in December, are the first two honorees.

 

Both cited the influence of others in their decision to pursue a career as a lineman.

 

For Mann, one of those influences was close to home. His brother, Dillon, is a lineman at Rush Shelby Energy and a 2019 graduate of NALTC, which resulted in several conversations about attending line school.

 

Mann was also influenced by his former baseball coach Jason Connell, a lineman at Johnson County REMC.

 

 

 

Now Mann and Connell are co-workers at JCREMC as the Indian Creek graduate, who was not only on the baseball team but the fishing team for the Braves, found a job close to his hometown of Trafalgar at the beginning of January.

 

Wilson’s story is not unsimilar. The Sellersburg native and graduate of Silver Creek, where he played football, moved houses in high school and met a new neighbor in retired Clark County REMC lineman Dave Casey.

 

With Casey providing instruction and guidance, Wilson studied outside of high school for electrician work and did multiple internships at Gaylor Electric before deciding to go to line school.

 

Wilson is now working at ElectriCom, where he started in late January.