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Sporting KC launches scholarship
program aimed at improving health of
children
By Nick Sloan
Created May 11 2011 - 1:59am
With the goal of improving the health of Kansas City's children in mind,
Sporting Kansas City has launched a scholarship competition program
for high school students across the Kansas City metro area.
The program is simple enough.
High school students interested in receiving $2,000 for college can
submit ideas to the soccer club geared towards "positively impacting the
health of local children in the community using soccer or related activities as a tool."
Entitled "Sporting 22," Sporting Kansas City will award 22 $2,000 scholarships for the best
ideas, along with a $500 grant to help implement their proposed ideas.
Along with the 22 scholarships, an additional $2,000 prize will be presented to the
valedictorian of the group.
Possible suggestions made by Sporting Kansas City can be pick-up games, establishing
indoor tournaments during the winter and providing nutrition and fitness training to youth
soccer teams.
"We want to make a large scale impact in the community," said Erin Lawless, Sporting KC
community relations manager. "We want to define what our organization wants to be in the
community."
Sporting 22 could especially be important and beneficial for Wyandotte County.
A 2009 study undertaken by the Kansas County Health Rankings slotted Wyandotte
County dead last among all 105 counties in the state of Kansas when it came to health.
Launched on May 2, Sporting 22's application process will conclude one second before
midnight on May 28.