SCR Scholarship Recipients Announced
Space Coast Runners awards two scholarships, one to a male and one to a female high school senior; applicants must run for their school cross country or track team, and/or be a member of SCR.
The Space Coast Runners’ scholarships award was given in the amount is $1,500 to each winner. The students wrote essays addressing the prompt, “how running has impacted my relationships with family, friends, and/or community.†A team of board members read the essays, and after careful consideration awarded the 2016 scholarships to Emily Miller of Rockledge High School and Johnathon Carboni of Edgewood Jr./Sr. High. Â
As well as being an athlete, Emily is an excellent student who is in the top 10% of her class; she is a member of the National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, and Student Government Association. She plans to attend the University of Florida to study biomedical engineering and hopes to one day work in the field of prosthetics. Â
Johnathan attended school in New York until his family moved to Florida in his junior year. An excellent student with an unweighted 4.0, he is also a member of the honor society and academic teams. In addition to running, he also played varsity soccer, and for his senior project he trained a team to run Tough Mudder while raising funds for Wounded Warrior. Johnathan has been accepted to Cornell University where he plans to major in biological sciences to prepare for medical school.Â
These students will attend our annual awards dinner on June 4th and share their winning essays with us.
