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Brundage Scholarship applications due Jan. 11
Kesha Green,
News Editor
(217) 333-1085; k-green3@illinois.edu
10/19/01
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Students
who excel in academics and amateur athletics are eligible to compete
for the 29th annual Avery Brundage Scholarships.
Applications will be available
at the financial aid and intramural/recreation offices of the Urbana-Champaign,
Chicago and Springfield campuses starting Nov. 2. The deadline for submitting
completed applications is Jan. 11, 2002.
Full-time UI students, including incoming freshman, graduate and transfer
students, may apply for Brundage scholarships. Under specific conditions,
grant-in-aid recipients may be eligible. Academic and athletic competence
will be considered over financial need.
To qualify, undergraduate and transfer student applicants must rank
in the top 25 percent of their college; incoming freshmen must rank
in the upper 25 percent of their incoming class. Graduate and professional
students must be in good academic standing.
In addition, students also must have demonstrated "special athletic
ability" in an amateur sport in which they participated for personal
development and not as preparation for professional athletics. Previous
Brundage scholarship winners have represented a wide variety of sports
from archery and tennis to swimming and wheelchair basketball. Last
year, 20 winners were awarded $2,000 each.
The late Avery Brundage established the scholarships in 1974 with a
$343,000 endowment to the University of Illinois Foundation. In the
past 29 years, 602 scholarships with a total value of about $578,500
have been awarded.
Brundage was a 1909 UI graduate who competed in the 1912 Olympics and
served as president of the U.S. and International Olympic committees.
Brundage also served as a member of the University of Illinois Foundation,
the President’s Council and the Citizen’s Committee.
Applications for Avery Brundage Scholarships are available at all three
U. of I. campuses:
Urbana-Champaign
Office of Student Financial Aid
620 East John St.
Champaign, IL 61820
Division of Campus Recreation
170 Intramural-Physical Education Building
201 E. Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
Chicago
Office of Student Financial Aid
1800 Student Services Building
1200 W. Harrison
Chicago, IL 60607
Any Intramural and Recreation Office
149 Physical Education Building, or
238 Chicago Circle Center or
50 Chicago Illini Union
Office of Medical Student Financial Aid
163 College of Medicine East
808 S. Wood St.
Chicago, IL 60612 (MC-783)
Springfield
Office of Student Affairs
SAB 20
University of Illinois at Springfield
P.O. Box 19243
Springfield, IL 62794-9243
Scholarship information and downloadable applications are also available
on the Web: http://www.uoapa.uillinois.edu/scholarships/brundage/Current/app_open.htm.
The Financial Aid and Campus Recreation Web sites also offer links to
the Brundage Web page.
