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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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