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U-Mary awards Shetler the Kevin Olson Basketball Scholarship
BISMARCK - The first annual Kevin Olson Basketball Scholarship will be awarded to Bill Shetler. He is a 5-foot-11 senior guard from Sturgis who averaged five points per game, one assist per game, and one rebound per game for the Marauders as a junior in the 2005-06 season. Shetler has a 3.4 cumulative GPA and is majoring in history/social behavioral science teaching. His parents are Joe and Cindy. Bill's brother Brad also attends U-Mary and is a member of the men's golf team. "Bill epitomizes what it means to be a Marauder," states U-Mary Head Basketball Coach Juno Pintar. "He is a great teammate and represents all the things that are right about college athletics. Bill has had to work hard for his opportunities. After playing junior varsity for a year, he fought to make the 12-man travel roster and has been one of our first guards off the bench the last two years.
College Scholarship money work within NCAA?
Are college scholarships a fixed amount of money per month, no matter where the school ...or are they a variable dollar amount set by the cost of attending that school, such as tuition, books, room and board?What I'm really asking is how does a student-athlete from a lower income family situation afford to go to a very expensive school such as USC, Duke or Stanford if a scholarship is a fixed amount set by the NCAA, such as $12,000 per year?If it's the latter case (varying amount depending on tuition costs at each school), an athletic scholarship at an elite private Div IA school would be worth one heck of a lot more than one to a Mega-state U.Just wondering which it is and how that might be used as a recruiting tool by the elite private schools. .
Dynamic Gilroy High Senior Honored at 49ers Game
Gilroy - Last month, one of GHS's busiest seniors took a day to travel to a San Francisco 49ers game to hear his name announced before the crowd. Jairo Rodriguez was one of 32 high school students who won a $1,000 scholarship from the StanPac Scholarship Program. "That was fun," Rodriguez recalled. "I got to meet some of the other winners that day." The names were announced in a special segment just prior to the game, and winners got to see the game in style, from luxury box seats. But this wasn't all the publicity Rodriguez received for his scholarship - he had also had his name announced on KNBR, the radio station which broadcasts the 49ers games. Rodriguez is one of the seemingly superhuman students whose slate of activities is so lengthy it might make you tired just reading it.
Scholarship a boost for family's first
CLEARWATER - When she first gave college a try in Connecticut, Natasha Otero said, she might never have dropped out if she had gotten simple tips from her parents, such as how to take notes. "I had a difficult time because I did not have the support system," said Otero, who is taking online classes at St. Petersburg College. "No one in my family had gone to college, so they could not help me." Otero, 30, plans to attend classes at St. Petersburg College's Clearwater campus in the near future. She also hopes to apply for a first-of-its-kind First Generation in College scholarship for Florida students whose parents or guardians did not receive a higher education. State education officials estimated that there are more than 53,000 first-generation college students in Florida.
Ghana: Journalism - the Beauty And the Beast
I am nearly through a good book on the history of British journalism by the accomplished editor of the BBC, Andrew Marr. So far, it's been a brilliant account of a refreshing mixture of beautiful and ugly tales, with sharp vignettes of eccentric characters who have survived the topsy-turvy world of western journalism. Like ours, British journalism has struggled through periods of near perdition to an age where the profession was merely tolerated as a necessary nuisance. Even as a respected and the most revered press the world over, Marr notes: "regular doses of hype, sloppy reporting and uncorrected mistakes have long marked British newspapers, despite the attempts by the best of them to use reader's ombudsman and the regular corrections to improve their standing." .
LU launches scholarship drive
Lakehead University is setting its sights on attracting more of the best students. To that end, the institution has launched a major scholarship campaign. Development director Bonnie Moore says that over the next three years its hoped to bring in enough funds that will assist in convincing students to make Northwestern Ontario their higher education choice. The new fundraising initiative was launched Friday with the aim of raising $6 million for scholarships. The money will provide over ten new scholarships a year, ranging from $500 to $2,000. Moore, says they will be asking over 40,000 alumni around the world to make a donation. With tuition on the rise, students need more financial support she said. LU president Dr. Fred Gilbert says achieving a high level of student financial incentives is a very important component for universities to be competitive.
Diane Sawyer's gift to Robin Roberts generates tears
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. A Pass Christian senior will receive a four-year college scholarship in honor of Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts. Fellow co-anchor Diane Sawyer presented the Secret Santa gift to Roberts --a native of Pass Christian-- this morning (Tuesday) during the broadcast. The scholarship is to Southeastern Louisiana University, Roberts' college alma mater. Roberts teared up after receiving the gift. She told Sawyer that education is very important to her family. Sawyer says her Secret Santa gift marks Roberts' five years on the G-M-A desk. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. .
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