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June 10, 2010
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Ringette Canada awards scholarships
Ottawa, Ontario – Ringette Canada today announced the recipients of the twelfth annual Agnes Jacks Scholarship Awards and the tenth annual Cara Brown Ringette Scholarship Awards. Receiving Agnes Jacks Scholarships were Nicole Forest (Shediac, NB), Sarah Lesperance (Winnipeg, MB), Cara Coghlan (Whitby, ON), Jennifer Bertand (Edmonton, AB), and Jamie May (Richmond, BC). Receiving Cara Brown Ringette Scholarships were Lauren Morse (Berwick, NS) and Melissa Seiben (Winnipeg, MB).
Agnes Jacks, who sadly passed away on April 1, 2005, was the widow of Sam Jacks, who invented the sport of ringette back in 1963 in North Bay, Ontario. While the sport lost Mr. Jacks’ guiding hand through his untimely passing in 1975, the ringette community continued to benefit greatly from Agnes’ dedicated and enthusiastic promotion of the sport, and the ringette community appropriately laid claim to Mrs. Jacks as their very own goodwill ambassador. The Agnes Jacks Scholarship Award is presented to ringette players, coaches and/or officials who have demonstrated a strong academic performance and a commitment to the sport of ringette. Recipients receive a $1,000 scholarship towards post-secondary education and also receive a scholarship award certificate recognizing their achievements.
Cara Brown is a ringette athlete who has played competitively in both Sudbury and Calgary and has participated in 16 Canadian ringette championships, as well as serving as team captain at the World ringette championship in 1990, 1992 and 1994. The Cara Brown Ringette Scholarship, which was formed to recognize Cara’s involvement in ringette, is awarded to a registered ringette player who is actively playing ringette at the elite level, who is entering a Canadian university on a full-time basis for the first time, who combines academic excellence and a minimum of a B average with a strong commitment to the sport of ringette. Recipients receive a $750 scholarship towards post-secondary education and also receive a scholarship award certificate recognizing their achievements.
About Ringette
Ringette is a Canadian sport that was invented in 1963 in North Bay, Ontario by the late Sam Jacks. There are currently over 27,000 players on nearly 2,000 teams across Canada with over 2,400 officials and 5,000 coaches. Internationally, it is played in half a dozen other countries around the world. Ringette has been designated a Heritage Sport by Sport Canada and as part of the Sport for Life movement, ringette is well advanced at adapting Sport Canada's Long Term Athlete Development model. For more information, please refer to the Ringette Canada Web site at www.ringette.ca.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Alayne Martell
Media and PR, Ringette Canada/National Ringette League
T: 902-839-2532
C : 902-308-1067
alayne@ringette.ca
www.ringette.ca
www.nationalringetteleague.ca
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