The Future Leaders Scholarship aims to identify young men and women who will be tomorrow’s leaders. Each year, six student-athletes are selected based on the overall success in academics, athletics, community service, and leadership.
Past recipients of the Future Leaders Scholarship have gone on to institutions located in New England as well as across the nation including Harvard University, Brown University, UMass Amherst, Vanderbilt University, and UConn. For a list of Future Leaders Scholarship recipients, click here.
The Massachusetts Amateur Sports Foundation awards these scholarships because it believes the future leaders of tomorrow are developed during their high school years with a solid foundation built on academics, athletics, community service, and extracurricular activities. Achieving success in academics, athletics, and community service teaches responsibility to self and to others, fosters a sense of self-worth, and develops an appreciation for the importance of setting goals and working to achieve them. If learned well, these lessons help make effective leaders in business, education, and the community. These values help to craft the leaders of tomorrow, and the Bay State Games hopes to help these leaders with the Futures Leaders Scholarship program.
Image descriptions: (left) 2019 Scholarship winner, Ella Stanwood, presented with her scholarship award at the 2020 BSG Figure Skating competition.
(right) Kevin Cummings with the 2002 Verizon Future Leaders Scholarship recipients at the Fleet Center in Boston prior to a Boston Bruins game.
The Future Leaders Scholarship has been awarded to BSG athletes since 1989. At one point in time, the Future Leaders Scholarship was sponsored by organizations like Verizon and SBLI. Over the past 30+ years nearly $400,000 has been distributed to students who wish to continue their education.
To see more on the BSG Future Leaders Scholarship program, click here.
Bay State Games will be accepting applications for the 2022 Future Leaders Scholarship until October 13, 2022. More information can be found here.
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