Overview
Each year, subject to budget
approval, the Greater Framingham Running Club (GFRC)
presents two College Scholarships to local high school
seniors. The
scholarship award for 2025 will be $500 for each
recipient.
Criteria
The scholarships will be presented to
local high school runners who plan to attend either a
two or four-year accredited college or university and
who also intend to run cross-country, track or
recreationally while in college.
We’ll look to ensure that the winning applicant
exemplifies dedication, leadership, running talent,
commitment and academic achievement.
That is, the award will not necessarily go to
the runners in the greater Framingham area with the most
success in running, but the track or cross-country team
members who have always been committed and consistently
work hard to persevere, combined with academic
achievement.
Applicants need to submit a brief
statement describing what running means to them.
This statement will accompany their coach’s
supporting statement.
Eligibility
The eligible high schools are any
public high school or schools within a town that has at
least five GFRC members with a family membership
counting as one. The
membership list as of January 1st of this year
is the eligibility determinant. All seniors
attending these high schools are eligible for the
scholarship. For 2025, this means that the eligible high
schools are Ashland, Framingham, Keefe Tech,
Natick, and the Learning Center for the Deaf.
In addition, all students who are members of
the Greater Framingham Running Club as of January 1st of
this year are eligible, regardless of their high
school.
Application
The cover letter and application will be sent to each high
school scholarship point person. The application may also
be downloaded here.
Students will need to engage their
track or cross-country coaches to provide a short (one
or two paragraphs) statement as to why the athlete
deserves the award, based on the criteria noted above.
Schools will be notified between
January 8 and January 31 with a return deadline of March
31.
Decision
The GFRC Secretary will receive all
applications, and remove all names from the
applications, then package and distribute the
applications, identified by number only, to the GFRC
Scholarship Committee.
This is done to ensure a fair process, and
avoid the appearance of any impropriety. Membership on
the GFRC College Scholarship Committee will be open to
any member of the GFRC in good standing who volunteers
to be on the Committee.
The GFRC College Scholarship Committee should
have approximately 5-7 volunteers by the January monthly
meeting. The Committee will announce its decision of the
scholarships at the April or May monthly meeting and the
decision of the Scholarship Committee is final.
The Committee will then need to work with the
recipient’s school to determine the proper protocol for
student and public notification.
Presentation
Two GFRC members will present the
awards:
The
GFRC President or Vice President (or one of their
designees from the Scholarship Committee) and a
scholarship committee representative agreed upon by the
scholarship committee.
The two presenters will travel to the
appropriate high school awards night (typically in May)
to make the presentation (subject to current health safety
protocols).
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