PRIOR EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT FOR STUDENT ATHLETES
One of the original major goals at Nick's Foundation was to provide educational scholarships and financial support to high school and college student-athletes to advance their college education. Although we now focus on the legal services, we wanted everyone to know all that we have done to honor Nick Murphy.
As part of that financial support, in June 2017 and in June 2018, the Nicholas J. Murphy Foundation gave out a total of ten $2,500.00 scholarships (for a total disbursement of $25,000.00) to deserving student-athletes. We originally were going to give out two scholarships per year, one $2,500.00 scholarship to a female student-athlete and one $2,500.00 scholarship to a male student-athlete, graduating from Dunlap High School in honor of Nick Murphy's academic and athletic career prior to him joining the United States Navy. However, due to the success of the Foundation's fundraising efforts, and due to the fact that we had so many deserving student-athletes apply, we were able to "Pay it Forward" by increasing the total scholarships from two to five and the total college funds distributed from $5,000.00 to $12,500.00 per year.
Please check out the video below to hear more from Nick’s big brother, Grant Murphy. Thank you, everyone, for your continued support.
The scholarship recipients were chosen by the Murphy Family (Ed, Theresa, Grant, Alec and Delaney Murphy) based on nominations made by the student-athletes themselves, and by paying extra attention to the players attitude, hustle, support, work ethic and their overall contribution to the team, the school and the community. Nick Murphy was never the biggest guy on the team, but he always had the biggest heart, the best hustle and cared the most about his coaches and fellow players in making them the best they could be. He never shied away from a challenge and he never "sat on the sidelines" in anything he did. He always gave 100% and was always "The Man in the Arena".
The five college scholarship winners for 2017, with each person receiving a $2,500.00 payment toward their college tuition, were Trey Rohman, Jhonny Ghantous, Jena Brooks, Nate Hinnen and Hunter Mitchell, and the five college scholarship winners for 2018 were Zachary Stirnaman, Sage Bessert, Clara Fitzpatrick, Matthew Pichaske and Jackson Frank. Congratulations to all of these fine student-athletes. We will be following your college careers and are very pleased to help you in reaching your goals and dreams.
