BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – August 6, 2008 – DigitalSports®, a national network of local sport communities, connecting athletes, coaches, fans, and families, announced today its annual scholarship
winners from the Baltimore area. The DigitalSports “Applause” and “Media” Scholarships are awarded annually to local senior-level students that excel in the classroom, on the athletic field, and in the community while facing and overcoming extraordinary circumstances.
Each of the following Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Howard county new
graduates recently took home a prize of $500 for their exemplary accomplishments, both on and off of the field, to be used toward tuition during their upcoming collegiate year:
• Lauren Ahrens, Softball, Chapelgate Christian High School
• Stephen Blucher, Baseball, Marriotts Ridge High School
• Precious Commodore, Volleyball, Edmondson-Westside High School
• Kristen Dahlberg, Cross Country, Mount de Sales High School
• Jeremiah Deshazo, Football, Frederick Douglass High School
• Mark Donohue, Lacrosse, St. Mary’s High School
• Forrest Dotson, Wrestling, Patterson High School
• Kaitlin Drake, Lacrosse, River Hill High School
• Julian Durkee, Ice Hockey, Southern High School
• Ryan Foehrkolb, Soccer, Archbishop Curley High School
• Meghan Garsey, Soccer, Patapsco High School
• Brandon LaPrade, Track & Field, Forest Park High School
• Tony Mack, Wrestling, Owings Mills High School
• Tiesha Macker, Softball, Annapolis High School
• Chris Mills, Track & Field, Western Tech
• Christel Mukendi, Track & Field, Samuel Banks High School
• Tyshia Oliver, Indoor Track, Reginald Lewis High School
• Patrick Rice, Tennis, Severna Park High School
• Fallon Rovel-Jones, Indoor Track, New Town High School
• Jen Schmidt, Basketball, Friends School
• Phil Simard, Swimming, St. Paul’s High School
• Anya Uzoh, Indoor Track, Meade High School
“The students honored with the 2008 Applause and Media Scholarships are the young adults who will be courageously leading us in to the future,” says Carl Wartzack, Chief Operating Officer of DigitalSports. “We are thrilled to shine a spotlight on these extraordinary local students and to offer them this tuition-award in order to further their education and success.”
DigitalSports.com was established to highlight the positive aspects of high school and youth sports and the positive impact sports has on the individual and their community. The goal of the DigitalSports network is to support the influence sports has on young-athletes by offering information, tools, services and tuition-awards to students across the country.
DigitalSports believes in helping students and student-athletes develop valuable skills, experiences and attributes that will be needed to advance their careers and solidify life-long success. In addition to tuition-based scholarships (Applause and Media Awards), DigitalSports also offers internships. Through the
DigitalSports Developmental League, students can learn new skills by actually performing the tasks associated with a particular career that is of interest to them.
DigitalSports has quickly become the premier source for local sports multimedia, including videos, photos, headlines, stats, standings and other information, and is widely recognized as the
go-to resource for coaches, municipalities and officials with its suite of innovative management tools and systems. To help your school’s graduating student-athletes earn valuable scholarship money that can assist their continuation of educational and athletic endeavors at the collegiate level, visit DigitalSports.com for nomination information.
For more information on DigitalSports programs, franchise opportunities, scholarships and awards, visit www.digitalsports.com or contact Kristi Hughes at
Kristi@manavisitapr.com, or at 215-816-2954.
About Digital Sports®
DigitalSports® is the source for your local sports and activities; providing members and guests with a single point of access to high school and club sports and activities around the country. By distributing professional and user-generated content, DigitalSports offers communities around the nation the opportunity to share and spotlight the accomplishments of their local youth.
DigitalSports’ mission is to deliver a positive, quality experience to its guests through their online tools and systems and their video and print information as well as providing innovative tools and resources to coaches and mentors. DigitalSports operates as a new-media outlet within defined guidelines for preventing any publishing of inappropriate content.
The goal of DigitalSports® is to inform, entertain and inspire. DigitalSports believes that the real heroes are to be found in our local communities; next door, in our homes and in our schools. More information can be found at www.digitalsports.com.
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