Around The Commonwealth
Honoring Top Scholars
Forty-one students with an interest in golf were recognized at 2017 VSGA Day
The VSGA-VIP Scholarship Foundation awarded 41 grants to college-bound students with an interest in golf at the annual VSGA Day at Richmond Country Club on May 8 , an increase of four awards from a year ago . In all , $ 113,500 awards to those students and one additional student pursuing turfgrass studies at Virginia Tech .
The foundation ’ s top awards in 2017 went to Mazzen Shalaby ( Fredericksburg ) and Caroline Deloach ( Fairfax ). Shalaby earned the Dan C . Keffer Award , a $ 7,000 scholarship that goes to an individual in honor of the former VSGA-VIP Scholarship Foundation Committee Chairman . Deloach received $ 7,000 for the top Spencer-Wilkinson Award , which affords young women with an interest in golf the opportunity to pursue college and career development .
Other Spencer-Wilkinson Awards winners ($ 3,500 each ) were Madison Blanton ( Big Stone Gap ) and Ashley Nguyen ( South Riding ).
The David A . King Award ($ 4,000 ), given to a top academic standout , went to Jake Karton ( Arlington ). The Red Speigle Award ($ 3,500 ), annually given to a top student from the Peninsula , went to Jacob Smethurst ( Williamsburg ). Additionally , Vince Wheeler ( Roanoke ) earned the Richard Smith Award ($ 3,000 ), awarded for the first time in 2017 in memory of the VSGA ' s longtime director of championships and supporter of junior golf .
Virginia Tech student Jacob Odum earned the lone turfgrass grant ($ 2,000 ).
The rest of the VSGA-VIP Scholarship recipients :
• $ 4,000 award : Benjamin McGuigan ( Glen Allen )
• $ 2,500 awards : Max Dillon ( Wytheville ); Natalie Burlew ( Stafford ); Bridget Hart ( Arlington ); Kenneth Hudson ( Monroe ); William Keyt ( Windsor ); Henry Lutz ( Farmville ); Michael Patina ( Mechanicsville ); Elizabeth Prillaman ( Roanoke ); Ana Stanisaveljev ( Vienna ); Teddy Zinsner ( Alexandria ); Frayser Wall ( Virginia Beach ); Chandler Bridgers ( South Boston ); Anna Haught ( Roanoke ); Alex Woo ( North Chesterfield ); Ryan Woo ( North Chesterfield ); Kylee Hill ( Galax ); Jacob
Martin ( Stuart ); Doria Gilberg ( Middleburg ); Cole Baldwin ( New Kent ); Alex Fitzpatrick ( Williamsburg ); Charles Grubbs ( Farmville ); William Krug ( Hamilton ); Mitchell McMurtry ( Midlothian ); Kyle Mollica ( Roanoke )
• $ 2,000 awards : Cassaundra Wheeler ( Salem ); Eleshia Jones ( Norfolk ); Matthew Dowdy ( Altavista ); John Asmus ( Stafford ); Case Keatley ( Moseley ); Patrick Corbett Jr . ( Richmond ); Logan Smith ( Glen Allen ); Kristin Rabil ( Fairfax Station ).
BY THE NUMBERS
$ 113,500
Amount awarded to 41 recipients of VSGA-VIP Scholarships in 2017 .
$ 2.21million
Amount awarded to 953 students in 33 years by the VSGA-VIP Scholarship Foundation .
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