Charities & Scholarships
2008 Scholarship Awards
PFATS and The Gatorade Company teamed up for the 24th year to award scholarship to student athletic trainers at the 2008 annual National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Meeting and Clinical Symposium. These student athletic trainers received a $2,000 scholarship at this year’s convention in Anaheim:
- Beth Fruechte, Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Larry "Stosh" Neumann Memorial Scholarship Award - William Jones, Slippery Rock University
Edward Block Courage Society Scholarship Award - Shellie Spiers, Louisiana College
Dean Kleinschmidt Scholarship Award - Marc Norcross, MA, ATC; University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
William Tessendorf Scholarship Award
From left to right: Marc Norcross, Beth Fruechte, William Jones
2008 Ethnic Minority Scholarship Winners
PFATS has awarded scholarships to minority student athletic trainers participating in NFL training camps. Each student received a $1,000 scholarship and was presented with the award at the start of their NFL training camp.
| Atlanta Falcons | Philip Young | Georgia |
| Baltimore Ravens | Michael Cannon | Morgan State |
| Buffalo Bills | Derek Rivera | Delaware |
| Buffalo Bills | Jeffery Smith | Old Dominion |
| Carolina Panthers | Minekazu Isobe | L.S.U. |
| Chicago Bears | Wilkin Perez | Penn State |
| Cincinnati Bengals | Deontai Alexander | Cincinnati |
| Cleveland Browns | Darrell Jenkins | Charleston Southern |
| Dallas Cowboys | Abraham Diaz | Texas State |
| Dallas Cowboys | Kentaro Ishii | Texas Christian |
| Denver Broncos | Sean Evans | Midwestern State |
| Detroit Lions | Pascual Guerrero | Long Island |
| Houston Texans | Eric Fajardo | Texas Tech |
| Indianapolis Colts | Lemar Mosley | Rowan |
| Jacksonville Jaguars | Yutaka Hirabayashi | Southern |
| Miami Dolphins | Ryan Dotson | Purdue |
| Minnesota Vikings | Takuma Hoshiba | Cal State – Fresno |
| New England Patriots | Kiyoshi Otani | California State - Northridge |
| New Orleans Saints | Thaddeus Avery | Arkansas |
| New York Giants | Marcell Valentine | West Virginia |
| New York Giants | Emily Tong | Michigan State |
| New York Jets | Charles Hooks | Long Island |
| Oakland Raiders | Kei Sato | San Jose |
| Oakland Raiders | Jeremiah Jones | Cal State – Fresno |
| Philadelphia Eagles | Daisuke Yamaguchi | Cal Univ. of Penn |
| Pittsburgh Steelers | Jonathon Andino | Pittsburgh |
| San Diego Chargers | Daniel Bellamy | North Carolina Central |
| San Francisco 49ers | Bryce Gaines | Delaware |
| Seattle Seahawks | Kellen Shervington | Florida State |
| Tampa Bay Bucs | Keitaro Abe | Georgia Southern |
| Tennessee Titans | Morris Dixon | Prairie View A&M |
| Washington Redskins | Rudolph Rodriguez | Nova SE |
Deadline for submission of applications to these scholarships is March 15, 2009.
For information on how to apply for these and other scholarships and internships, click here.