West Bladen’s Kiera Lewis and Joseph Cooper and East Bladen’s Dyiamon Robinson have been named School Winners for the Heisman High School Scholarship.
Thousands of high school senior scholar-athletes graduating with the class of 2024 applied for the scholarship earlier this fall. More than 4,878 became school winners in the competition awarded by the Heisman Trophy Trust.
Lewis has starred in 3 sports for the Knights – volleyball, basketball, and track & field. Cooper has been a fixture for the Knight football team. Robinson has been a key contributor for East Bladen’s volleyball team.
To apply for the scholarship students must be graduating with the class of 2024, have a cumulative weighted high school grade point average of a B (3.0) or better, participate in at least one of the sports recognized by the International Olympic, the Paralympic Games and/or the National Federation of State High School Association and be a leader in his/her school and community.
The Heisman High School Scholarship was created 1994 through a partnership between Wendy’s and The Heisman Trophy Trust. From its inception, the program has leveraged the reputation of the Heisman Memorial Trophy as a symbol of great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work.
Over the past 29 years, the program has honored more than 600,000 of the nation’s most esteemed high school seniors and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships to students and more than a million dollars to high school academic and athletic programs across the country.
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