The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation made an announcement on National Girls and Women in Sports Day that applications are currently open for the fourth annual Buccaneers Girls in Football Scholarship The aim of the National Girls and Women in Sports Day in conjunction with the Women’s Sports Foundation is to allow all girls and women to reach their full potential in sports and in life.
The scholarship will be up for high school girls across the nation that play organized football and want to pursue a career in sports, earned a minimum 3.0 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) during their high school academic career, and are set to graduate this spring and enroll full-time at an accredited four year college or university. The Applications will remain open until April 20th, 2023, while the recipients will be announced at a later date.
The Buccaneers were actually the first NFL team to create a scholarship of this kind in 2020, which was made possible by a $250,000 commitment by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation. Last year, the winners of the scholarship were, Olivia Zorilla (Florida State University), Kaylen Thomas (Mount St Mary’s University), Jairis Gomez (Florida State University) and Elle Bohlman (University of Notre Dame).
In order to learn more about the scholarship you can visit https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org/buccaneersgirlsinfootball/
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