EVANS SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO 25 HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS FROM MICHIGAN
GOLF, IL (January 25, 2008) The Evans Scholars Foundation recently awarded 25 new Evans Scholarships to caddies from the state of Michigan for the 2008-09 academic year.
These young men and women have excelled in academics and in service to their schools and communities, said Don Johnson, president and CEO of the Western Golf Association/Evans Scholars Foundation. We welcome them to the Evans Scholars family and look forward to their continued success as college students.
The Foundation made the awards recently following individual interviews with each scholarship candidate at a January 10, 2008, Evans Scholars Selection Meeting at Kent Country Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan, conducted by the WGA/ESF and the Golf Association of Michigan. Additional candidate interviews will take place this spring in Michigan with the expectation that several more deserving caddies from Michigan will be awarded Evans Scholarships for fall 2008, Johnson said.
All Evans Scholars are golf caddies who earned their full tuition and housing college scholarships based on four criteria: strong caddie record, excellent academics, demonstrated financial need and outstanding character. The program has a college graduation rate in excess of 90 percent, with an overall grade point average for all Evans Scholars in college above a 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.
Evans Scholars live in an Evans Scholarship House at one of the 14 chapters in the Evans Scholars Program; Evans Scholars from Michigan attend the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor or Michigan State University in East Lansing.
Following are the new Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship recipients from Michigan (as of Jan. 25, 2008), with the scholarship recipients name followed by his or her hometown, club caddied at, high school attended and college he or she will attend in fall 2008:
-Brian Antioch, Allen Park, Dearborn C.C., Allen Park H.S., Michigan State University
-Jonathon Foldie, Bay City, Bay City C.C., Bay City Central H.S., Michigan State University
-Chase Plank, Belmont, Blythefield C.C., Rockford H.S., Michigan State University
-Patrick Brinnehl, Benton Harbor, Point O’ Woods Golf & C.C., Coloma H.S., University of Michigan
-Clifford Jones, Charlevoix, Belvedere Golf Club, Charlevoix H.S., University of Michigan
-Loren Fuhs, Chesterfield, C.C. of Detroit, LAnse Creuse North H.S., University of Michigan
-Tyler Charette, Commerce, Orchard Lake C.C., Walled Lake Central H.S., Michigan State University
-Michael Chamas, Dearborn, Dearborn C.C., Ford Academy, Michigan State University
-Zachary Chopp, Detroit, Lochmoor Club, Liggett, Michigan State University
-Brandon Keeler, Detroit, Detroit Golf Club, Renaissance H.S., University of Michigan
-Benjamin Mueller, Detroit, Plum Hollow C.C., Ford Academy, Michigan State University
-Jonathan Rickard, Grand Blanc, Warwick Hills Golf & C.C., Grand Blanc H.S., University of Michigan
-Christopher Zak,Grosse Pointe , Lochmoor Club, Grosse Pointe North H.S., Michigan State University
-Thomas Tracy, Lansing, C.C. of Lansing, Lansing Catholic H.S., University of Michigan
-Michael Schultz, Lincoln Park, Grosse Ile Golf & C.C., Southgate Anderson H.S., University of Michigan
-Vesselin Gueorguien, Novi, Orchard Lake C.C., Walled Lake Western H.S., Michigan State University
-Abdullahi Zubair, Oak Park, Plum Hollow C.C., Oak Park H.S., University of Michigan
-Lazarus Jackson, Redford, Bloomfield Hills C.C., Country Day, Michigan State University
-Micheal Thompson, Rives Junction, The C.C. of Jackson, Northwest H.S., University of Michigan
-Cory Stadelbauer, Roseville, C.C. of Detroit, De La Salle H.S., Michigan State University
-Henry Wilson, Royal Oak, Red Run Golf Club, Ferndale H.S., University of Michigan
-Ian Shogren, Warren, Red Run Golf Club, De La Salle H.S., University of Michigan
-Ryan Smalley, Watervliet, Point O’ Woods Golf & CC, Watervliet H.S., Michigan State University
-Brent Hertz, West Bloomfield, Pine Lake C.C., Andover H.S., University of Michigan
-Jacob Koch, Wyandotte, Grosse Ile Golf & C.C., Roosevelt H.S., Michigan State University
Currently, 835 deserving golf caddies are enrolled in college as Evans Scholars, including 50 at the University of Michigan and 66 at Michigan State University. More than 8,600 caddies have graduated as Evans Scholars, including 652 from the University of Michigan and 708 from Michigan State University, since the program was founded in 1930 by Charles Chick Evans Jr., famed Chicago amateur golfer and winner of the 1916 U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur. The Western Golf Association has administered the Chick Evans Scholarship Program since its inception in 1930 through the Evans Scholars Foundation. The Program has grown to become the largest privately funded scholarship program in the nation.
Funds for the scholarships come mostly from contributions by more than 500 member clubs, 36,000 WGA Par Club members and 100,000 golfers in the WGA Bag Tag Program. Evans Scholar Alumni donate over $3 million annually to the program.
The scholarship program is also supported by 23 affiliated golf associations and from proceeds generated by the BMW Championship, the third of four PGA TOUR Playoff events in the PGA TOURs 2008 FedExCup competition. The BMW Championship will be held September 1-7 at Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri.
For more information on the Evans Scholars Program, call (847) 724-4600, e-mail [email protected], write to the Evans Scholars Foundation at 1 Briar Road, Golf, Illinois, 60029 or visit: www.evansscholarsfoundation.com.
CONTACT: Gary Holaway
Western Golf Association/Evans Scholars Foundation
1-847-724-4600, extension 221
[email protected]
