Finalists Announced for Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award
Richmond, VA – The Richmond Region’s finest high school scholar-athletes will be on display and rewarded for their hard work on Monday night, June 5, when the 26th annual Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner takes place at The Jefferson Hotel. This year the program is awarding over $65,000 in college scholarships to 20 outstanding high school student-athletes, as well as awards to the male and female HCA Virginia Sports Medicine Comeback Athletes of the Year and Williams Mullen Team of the Year awards. Finalists for the Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Program were announced in this morning’s newspaper. The continued support of the Richmond Times-Dispatch has been crucial during the entire duration of the Scholar-Athlete program, and they recently committed to a five-year renewal of their sponsorship to highlight the academic, athletic, and extracurricular achievements of student-athletes throughout the Richmond region.
Girls Boys
| Alyse Armentrout | Atlee | Antonio Balducci | Hanover | |
| Grace Clarke | Midlothian | Jackson Barkstrom | St. Christopher’s | |
| Rebecca Fagan | Glen Allen | Kyle Brumbaugh | James River | |
| Morgan Lewis | Veritas | Drew Buckley | Monacan | |
| Kelli Nee | Powhatan | Tanner Hood | St. Christopher’s | |
| Grayson Radcliffe | Patrick Henry | Jack McSorley | Douglas Freeman | |
| Taya Robinson | Huguenot/Community | Bashir Mosavel-Lo | Deep Run | |
| Aidan Rossman | Patrick Henry | Dillon Powell | Midlothian | |
| Nina Sorkin | Deep Run | Waleed Suliman | Douglas Freeman | |
| Megan Walker | Monacan | Nicholas Woolfolk | Thomas Jefferson |
The finalists will attend the dinner not knowing who the male and female Scholar-Athletes of the Year will be. The two winners will each receive a $7,500 scholarship. A male and female runner-up will receive $5,000 each, while the remaining finalists will each receive a $2,500 grant. Finalists were chosen from a pool that included one male and one female nominee from each high school within the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s primary circulation area.
This is the 26th year of the program, which has now awarded a total of $958,000 to 494 outstanding student-athletes from the Richmond area.
Meredith and Ali Doswell will be the featured guests for the event, which gets under way at 6:00pm. They will take part in a Q&A on stage with Times-Dispatch staff at approximately 7:45 p.m. and awards will be handed out at approximately 8:00 p.m.
The sisters, both graduates of St. Catherine’s, were finalists for the scholar-athlete award in 2013 and just graduated from Amherst College. During their time at Amherst, they were four-year letter winners on the women’s basketball team and helped lead the program to the 2016-17 Division III Women’s National Championship. Ali Doswell was the Final Four’s most outstanding player and national player of the year, and Meredith was named to the all-Final Four Team.
A limited number of tickets for the Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner are available for $100 each. The deadline to order tickets is Wednesday, May 31, or when the event sells out, whichever comes first. For ticket information call Faith Hecht at the Sports Backers at 804-285-9495 x243 or email at [email protected].
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