Finalists Announced for Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Awards
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 4, when the 27th annual Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner takes place at The Jefferson Hotel. This year the program is awarding $70,000 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. New scholarships for 2018 also include the Cheryl Lockett Oliver Memorial Scholarship, to be awarded to one college-bound senior female, and the Raymond Delaware Patterson Memorial Scholarship, to be awarded to one college-bound senior male. Finalists for the Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Scholarship Program were announced in this morning’s newspaper.
Andre Ingram, a Richmond native whose 10-year journey to the National Basketball Association and standout performance with the Los Angeles Lakers in early April captured the nation’s attention, will serve as the featured guest at the 2018 Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner. Ingram is a Highland Springs High School graduate and was the Times-Dispatch/Sports Backers male Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2003 before going on to a highly successful four-year career as a student-athlete at American University and embarking on his professional career.
Girls Boys
| Carter Bristow | Douglas Freeman | Ian Baker | Monacan | |
| Imani Edmonds | Hopewell | Greg Cuffey | Hopewell | |
| Madison Goff | Goochland | Maddison Furman | St. Christopher’s | |
| Ashley Henneberger | Glen Allen | Collin Gerardi | Powhatan | |
| Madison Jiranek | St. Catherine’s | John King | Goochland | |
| Lexi Long | Deep Run | Grant Northcutt | Cosby | |
| Lauren McCarey | Maggie Walker | Cory O’Shea | Mills Godwin | |
| Cara Menges | St. Catherine’s | Joe Paul | Maggie Walker | |
| Addie Nash | Trinity Episcopal | Scott Phillips | Collegiate | |
| Maiya Pencile | Matoaca | Matthew Whelan | J.R. Tucker |
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 27th year of the program, which has now awarded a total of $1,033,000 to 514 outstanding student-athletes from the Richmond area.
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 Tuesday, May 29 or when the event sells out, whichever comes first. For ticket information call Faith Hecht at the Sports Backers at 804-285-9495 x250 or email at [email protected].
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