Eight senior members of the York Suburban boys' basketball team each received a 2020 Gretchen Wolf Swartz Scholarship Award in the amount of $7,000 during an informal meeting between members of the Gretchen Wolf Swartz Scholarship Fund board of directors, team members, and their families at the high school. The scholarship award winners are DeVante Embrey-Banks, Madelyn Barley, Anthony Brown, RJ Marquis, Max Reinecker, Andrew Shultz, Chris Spellman, and Lauren Wallace.
The Trojan boys' and Gettysburg girls' basketball programs were named winners of the Gretchen Wolf Swartz Sportsmanship Award at the conclusion of this year's basketball season. As a result, the seniors from each program became eligible to apply for scholarships. Applicants may include players, cheerleaders, and managers.
Typically, the organization's board members review scholarship applications and interview applicants before awarding scholarships in varying amounts. However, due to this year's unusual circumstances, board members decided to split the scholarship money allotted to each team evenly among the team's applicants.
The awards are presented in memory of Gretchen Wolf Swartz, who was a York County basketball official from 1981 to 1995. Following her death from leukemia in 1997, her fellow York County officials created the memorial team awards and scholarship fund to promote and honor the sportsmanship she displayed throughout her playing and officiating careers.
At the conclusion of each season, York area basketball officials vote to honor a YAIAA boys' and a YAIAA girls' program for sportsmanship after observing the season-long conduct of players, fans, faculty, students, managers, coaches, superintendents, athletic directors, and cheerleaders from junior high to varsity. Each winning school receives a traveling trophy in recognition of its accomplishments.
The board has now awarded nearly $650,000 in scholarships since presenting its first two scholarships - each for $1,000 - in 2001.
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