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Scholarships available to students who excel at academics and athletics
Mare Payne,
News Bureau 217-333-0567
1/9/2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
Students who excel in academics and amateur athletics are eligible to
compete for the 32nd annual Avery Brundage Scholarships.
Paper applications will not be distributed. Instead, scholarship applications
may be submitted online at www.usp.uillinois.edu/brundage.
The deadline for submitting completed applications is Jan. 31.
Full-time University of Illinois students, including incoming freshman,
graduate and transfer students, may apply for Brundage scholarships.
Under specific conditions, grant-in-aid recipients may be eligible.
Academic and athletic competence will be considered over financial need.
To qualify, undergraduate and transfer student applicants must rank
in the top 25 percent of their college; incoming freshmen must rank
in the upper 25 percent of their incoming class. Graduate and professional
students must be in good academic standing.
In addition, students also must have demonstrated “special athletic
ability” in an amateur sport in which they participated for personal
development and not as preparation for professional athletics. Previous
Brundage scholarship winners have represented a wide variety of sports
from archery and tennis to swimming and wheelchair basketball. Last
year, 21 winners were awarded $2,000 each.
Avery Brundage established the scholarships in 1974 with a $343,000
endowment to the U. of I. Foundation. In the past 31 years, 690 scholarships
with a total value of $714,500 have been awarded. Brundage, a 1909 Illinois
graduate, competed in the 1912 Olympics and was president of the U.S.
and International Olympic committees. He also was a member of the U.
of I. Foundation, the President’s Council and the Citizen’s
Committee. He died in 1975.
