Graduates of high schools in the Kent School District pursuing a career in a sports-related field can apply for a $1,500 college scholarship from the Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation<\/a> and the Kent Community Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation created the scholarship to allow Kent School District graduates an opportunity to pursue sports-related fields of study in college, according to a media release from the foundation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Fans of the Seattle Thunderbirds junior hockey team support the Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation through 50-50 cash drawings and jersey raffles at ShoWare Center games.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Students entering a sports-related field such as athletic training, physical therapy, sports management, sports marketing, parks and recreation administration, physical education or exercise science majors are eligible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The scholarship can be applied to either a two-or four-year program at accredited university, community college, vocational or technical school.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Application criteria include the following:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Official transcript.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Two letters of recommendation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 A 500-word essay explaining why the applicant is interested in their chosen field.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Applications are due by April 1, 2012. Applications may be submitted to:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kent Community Foundation, Attn: Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation, Scholarship Committee, PO Box 128, Kent, WA 98035.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Applications may also be submitted on line at www.kentcf.com.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Graduates of high schools in the Kent School District pursuing a career in a sports-related field can apply for a $1,500 college scholarship from the Thunderbird Community Sports Foundation and the Kent Community Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}