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WA Athletic Boosters Annual Scholarship Drive

Westford Academy Athletic Booster Annual Scholarship Drive

Westford Academy's fall athletes will be knocking on neighborhood doors and soliciting donations outside local businesses in Westford Saturday, September 7th, in support of the WA Athletic Boosters annual “Scholarship Drive”.  The proceeds of this drive will fund student athlete scholarships that will be awarded to graduating seniors in the June of 2014.   In June of 2013, the Booster Club awarded 32 $600 scholarships to student athletes that were bound for college. 

There are three main goals for the WA Athletic Boosters annually.  The first is to award monetary scholarships to deserving seniors, to help with their future college expenses.  The WA Boosters Club sponsors 20-30 scholarships each year for our seniors who have worked hard and stayed committed to a sports program during their high school careers.  They have given so much of themselves to enrich the Westford community that giving back to them for their future successes seems the perfect graduation gift.    

Secondly, we provide all varsity letters awarded to students, any plaque or banner earned by a team, and host the annual Sports Banquet for senior athletes in the spring.   

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And thirdly, we provide supplemental funding to the Academy’s Athletic Department to assist with the purchase of equipment not covered in the annual budget.    The budget can’t provide it all.  Our coaches may make a request to the WA Boosters to fund a piece of equipment over and above the allocated annual finances for that team. Recent purchases we have made for our athletes through coach’s requests have been:  Portable score boards, golf bags, gymnastic equipment, the swim team 'start' system, lacrosse pitch backs, baseball netting, soccer rebounders, chairs for the WA gymnasium, wrestling mats, oars for the crew team are all examples of purchases made by the Athletic Booster Club for the teams at WA.

With the generous support of the Westford community, we hope to continue to supplement the athletic budget wherever shortfalls may arise.  Please be on the look out for Westford Academy student athletes on Sept 7th and remember that all student athletes will benefit from the money raised.

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Thank you for your support!

 

 

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