06/22/2026
Mickey Randolph, professor emeritus of psychology, who retired from Western Carolina University in May 2023, after a 37-year career, has established the Steve Lott Memorial Endowed Scholarship, thanks to gifts and pledges totaling $25,000. The scholarship fund is being supported by another $3,500 in memorial contributions from former players, friends, and colleagues.
Lott, a three-time Southern Conference Women’s Golf Coach of the Year and member of the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame, died in October 2025.
Creation of the Steve Lott Memorial Endowed Scholarship comes as WCU is nearing the conclusion of the “Fill the Western Sky” comprehensive fundraising campaign, a multiyear effort to raise a minimum of $100 million for WCU’s academic, student engagement, and athletics programs. This is the third comprehensive fundraising campaign in university history, and it is the first to focus on philanthropic support for improvements to facilities used by Catamount student-athletes.
For more information or to make a contribution to the “Fill the Western Sky” campaign, visit WesternSky.wcu.edu, call 828-227-7124 or email [email protected].
A retired Western Carolina University faculty member has created an endowed scholarship fund to support student-athletes on the Catamount women’s golf team in memory of her late husband, who coached the program to a pair of conference championships.