2022 UNSUNG HERO GALLERY

Complete list of 114 honorees listed here; 80th annual UH celebration can be viewed on May 11 via live stream HUNT VALLEY, Md., May 4, 2020 - McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC), a global leader in flavor, today announced that its 80th annual McCormick Unsung Heroes Awards Ceremony will now be held as a virtual event on Monday, May 11, 2020. To date, the company has awarded more than $1.8 million in scholarships to student athletes. For 80 years, nominees, parents

Patapsco’s Ashya Hill establishes a family legacy by following in the footsteps of her father Wayne as a McCormick Unsung Hero honoree Father’s Day was celebrated last Sunday, but for Wayne Hill, a former Unsung Hero honoree, this year it may have actually occurred on May 13th. That was the night of the 79th McCormick Unsung Hero Awards, which Hill attended with his daughter, Ashya Hill, a soccer player at Patapsco High, and her school’s 2019 female Unsung Hero honoree. A

The list of the keynote speakers who have addressed the McCormick Unsung Heroes banquet is as illustrious as it is long. Inspirational figures, both inside and out of the world of sports have imparted words of wisdom to the honored student-athletes for more than three-quarters of a century, and the speaker for 77th edition of the event, which will take place in May, may be as inspiring as any who have come before. Baltimore Ravens’ football legend Ray Lewis, perhaps the most

Henry (Hank) Butta, now 88, was once a prominent business leader as CEO of the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephone Co. of Maryland, and well known in local sports circles as the long-time honorary chairman of the NFL Alumni Charity Golf Classic, which raised money for charity. Long before that time, however, he was a McCormick Unsung Hero honoree. John Steadman, the late and legendary Baltimore sportswriter, once described how Butta began his football career at what was

Sparrows Point's girls' soccer player Hannah Auvil and wrestler Ethan Hoenig have established new ground in the history of the McCormick Unsung Heroes Award, becoming the first two nominees in the event's 77 year history from sports other than football and girls basketball. The award began in 1940 as a football only event. In 1987, the honorees expanded to include girls basketball players and it has remained that way ever since. In 2017, however, the award has been opened up

Basketball player Morgan Jacobs is the 2017 McCormick Unsung Hero female nominee for McDonogh School. She becomes the first official female nominee and will be honored at the 77th McCormick Unsung Heroes Banquet where more than $100,000 in college scholarships will be awarded. #MorganJacobs #McDonoghbasketball #McCormickUnsungHereos

Kenwood football player Daquan Wheeler has been officially nominated as his school's 2017 Male Unsung Hero honoree, making him the first official nominee for this year's event. For the first time ever, the 2017 Unsung Hero event will feature male and female athletes from a variety sports, no longer limited to just football and girls basketball players. As each school submits its honoree, they will be listed an announced on this web site. Check back often as we update the name

Four new scholarships worth $25,000 added; all sports will now be included McCormick & Company has announced some major changes, including four new scholarships worth a combined $25,000, for its annual Unsung Heroes Banquet, which will be held for the 77th time in May of 2017. The event, which began as a way to honor the unsung heroes of local high school football teams, in 1940, also began honoring girls basketball players in 1987. Since then one male and one female Unsung

The McCormick Unsung Heroes Award is unique, impactful and now about to celebrate its 75h anniversary. On May 4th, a ballroom in Maryland will be filled with high school students, their families and team coaches who will come together to honor the traits of sportsmanship and team play. While there are thousands of awards given across the U.S. that honor high school star athletes, you will have a hard time finding one that honors those who are out of the spotlight, previously