New scholarship honors ‘world-class individual’

Schultz receives first Steve Batterson Memorial Scholarship

Brad Schultz, 21, of Indianola, Iowa, stands in front of a baseball artwork at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport on Wednesday morning, April 30, after being announced as the recipient of the 2025 Steve Batterson Memorial Scholarship. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

The name and memory of a legendary local sports writer will live on, thanks to a new scholarship program. The Steve Batterson Memorial Scholarship program was recently established through a partnership between the Quad Cities River Bandits and the University of Iowa’s independent newspaper, The Daily Iowan. The first recipient of that scholarship is Brad […]

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